For Allison Epstein, author of the recently published “Fagin the Thief,” Fagin was the first Jewish character she encountered ...

Charles Dickens, and the story behind the beloved holiday classic A Christmas Carol, is the subject of a new stage play, The Man Who Invented Christmas, written by Distinguished University Professor ...

Each and every reading of the novella delivers both the pleasure of the familiar and, as great pieces of writing invariably do, fresh surprises and insights.

It’s a fun premise, though unevenly executed: Dickens must perform his 171st annual reading of “A Christmas Carol.” And he’s sick of it.

Eleven letters were acquired by the Charles Dickens Museum in London from a private seller in the United States — a country Dickens visited twice on popular public reading tours.

Celebrated author Neil Gaiman will appear as Charles Dickens in a dramatic reading of A Christmas Carol at The Town Hall on December 18 & 19. Get all the details here!

If you celebrate Christmas, chances are you've adapted some traditions that were popularized in the mid-1800s by one author: Charles Dickens.

At Charles Dickens School, 3% of students scored at or above the proficient level for math, and 12% scored at or above that level for reading. The school’s minority student enrollment is 98%.

I’d be reading about a long-dead, long-forgotten writer, William Harrison Ainsworth—a resident of my neighborhood—and there Dickens would be, befriending him.

Dickens Christmas fans can expect videos of Greene, as Charles Dickens, reading selections from "A Christmas Carol"; undertaker Barry M. Deep and his wife, Fran, showing how to roast chestnuts on ...

In “The Life and Lies of Charles Dickens,” Helena Kelly revisits the image the author crafted so carefully in his lifetime.

A batch of unseen and unpublished letters from Charles Dickens, some showing his awareness of his own fame, is being displayed for the first time. The 11 letters reveal the author's reading habits ...