Seventy years ago, in 1954, the late critic Eleanor Farjeon wrote an introduction to “Christmas Books by Charles Dickens” in which she stated of the five books, “The Cricket on the Hearth” (written in ...

Such was the success of 'A Christmas Carol' that the four festive stories Dickens published after it-some overlooked classics ...

Dickens wrote 15 novels, including the beloved classics Oliver Twist, A Christmas Carol, David Copperfield, and Great ...

Author Charles Dickens is best known for his memorable cast of characters, including Ebenezer Scrooge, David Copperfield and Oliver Twist, shown here. The Granger Collection, NYC One of the most-read ...

Dickensland: The Curious History of Dickens’s London; By Lee Jackson; Yale University Press; 218 pp. $28.00 And so they did. Dickens might be the only writer who spawned a tourist industry devoted to ...

The Hayes Home will host holiday tours with Victorian décor, Dickens tales and traditional wassail Dec. 19-20.

Mister Scrooge is having quite a time in Central New York this holiday season. Syracuse Stage, which is celebrating 50 years of bringing world class theatrical productions to the community, is ...

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 ...