Desperate for money, the author penned the classic holiday tale in unusually fast fashion only for it to sell out within a ...

Marley was dead to begin with. There is no doubt whatsoever about that. The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker, and the chief mourner. Scrooge signed it, and ...

Dickens’s Christmas novella is often read as a reassuring parable about our ability to change — but the whole point of Scrooge’s ghostly visitations is how dramatically his moral life needs to be ...

Dickens works such as the Christmas stories were regularly turned into stage plays during his life, while today most people ...

From the Broadway stage to the cheapest television network to some surprisingly decent adult productions (“Dickens” is right ...

A blue plaque to mark the first ever public reading of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens himself, is to be unveiled ...

Charles Dickens trained many to hate capitalism, but he never understood the difference between envious hatred of wealth and ...

Lucy Whitehead, Royal Holloway, University of London A Christmas Carol is usually read as a Victorian morality tale about ...

As we grow older, the world seems to divide more easily and, yes, more violently. Differences harden. Words become weapons.

As an elementary teacher, my mother could string together colorful phrases using the names of fourth-grade art supplies, just to avoid a “swear word.” She had strict rules on what was allowed to be ...

The classic festive tale of humbug and redemption has been adapted countless times for film and TV since the very first ...

And a new biography of Dickens is getting prominent reviews, including front-page billing in The Washington Post Book World. But what’s been missing from the articles I’ve read about these works is ...