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Dickens is a 2002 three-part docudrama presented by Peter Ackroyd, on whose biography of Dickens it was based. An unorthodox style is taken: actors play various individuals in Dickens' life (as well ...

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 ...

There are more than a dozen theatrical film versions of “A Christmas Carol,” including one made in 1910, a Muppet version and another starring Mickey Mouse. And there are more than two dozen ...

If you're wondering just what is it about Charles Dickens that so captures the imagination, you might want to start with the man himself. To learn more about one of Britain's most beloved and prolific ...

The formidable British actor Simon Callow single-handedly conjures up the rough and tumble of Victorian London in this well-crafted exploration of Charles Dickens' turbulent life and times, not to ...

As beloved as Shakespeare, Charles Dickens has suffered no dearth of biographies, beginning with the ponderous but indispensable three-volume tome produced by his friend John Forster, and including ...

Where lies the soul of a city? Peter Ackroyd, the indefatigable chronicler of London, has always found it in the inherited store of legends, horrors, triumphs and prejudices that reverberate through ...

London The Biography by Peter Ackroyd Doubleday, 864 pp., $45 TO AMERICAN TOURISTS, standing in line at the Tower or Westminster Abbey, London seems an old city, enveloped in architectural and ...