Tomorrow we will have a surprise activity," I told my students one day, then halfway through Dickens's work on the ... also for the incredible poverty of peasant women who knit to keep their ...

Meili, a peasant girl from a village rich in myth ... seething portrait of modern China's lower depths worthy of Hugo or Dickens. If horror, sentiment and melodrama spice the family's flight ...

If you celebrate Christmas, chances are you've adapted some traditions that were popularized in the mid-1800s by one author: Charles Dickens. Even if you don't celebrate Christmas, it's hard to ...

Tuesday marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Dickens — the great 19th century English novelist who gave us stories of pathos and comedy, and colorful portraits of the people of ...

In “The Life and Lies of Charles Dickens,” Helena Kelly revisits the image the author crafted so carefully in his lifetime. Credit...Rischgitz/Hulton Archive, via Getty Images Supported by By ...