CHARLES DICKENS—Stephen Leacock— Doubleday, Doran ($3). Dyed-in-the-wool Dickensians may enjoy reading this new version of an old and favorite ... of Dickens’ books, Biographer Leacock ...

After his father was arrested in 1824, 12-year-old Charles was forced to ... historical accounts tend to differ. Dickens held an uncanny ability to produce novels which simultaneously served ...

Household Words was an unillustrated weekly magazine conducted and edited by Charles Dickens from late March 1850 through May ... In the bosoms of the young and old, of the well-to-do and of the poor, ...

The engravings in his books ... and so the old lady left. Mr. Dickens heard most of the conversation, and was much amused at it. It was in New York that it was first suspected that Charles Dickens ...

Greg Jenner talks about Charles Dickens' tough upbringing ... time in the factory were later used in the Dickens novel David Copperfield. This book was originally going to be his autobiography ...

The Bleak Old Shop Of ... after he was born, Charles Dickens stands alone as perhaps the world's most popular novelist. His characters are famous in their own right, his novels endlessly adapted ...

Ever wished you could travel back to the mean streets of Victorian London, the one described by the era’s most beloved writer, Charles Dickens ... one chapter of Dickens’s book every night ...

Charles Dickens first visited the United States and Canada for six months in 1842, arriving in New York City with his first wife Catherine on January 31, 1842. He was only 30 years old, but had ...