After Charles Dickens’s death in 1870, the first biographer to narrate his life and career was his closest friend. John Forster’s “The Life of Charles Dickens,” published in 1872, served for many ...

Everyone knows "A Christmas Carol." What everyone doesn't know, now, is that Dickens' 1843 tale of Ebenezer Scrooge and the ghosts was just the first in a series of annual holiday books. "The Chimes," ...

Classic novels often explain power better than modern leadership manuals. By looking closely at Austen, Dickens, and Woolf, ...

Everybody knows the story of Ebenezer Scrooge and how his bah humbug spirit was transformed on one fateful Christmas Eve. As with any iconic character, though, Scrooge was first born in the ...

An essay, not a novel, but a provocative expression of Dickens’s Christian thinking in which he gives bold advice to pastors. The emphasis, however, is on the centrality of Jesus in the Christian ...

DAVID COPPERFIELD—Charles Dickens; condensed by Robert Graves; edited by Merrill P. Paine—Harcourt, Brace ($1.00). When Robert Graves’s The Real David Copperfield appeared in England last year, ...