Heralded as one of the best—if not the best—novelists of the Victorian era, Charles Dickens longed for fame from an early age. And, after a difficult childhood beset by financial troubles ...

Dickens died at his house, Gad's Hill Place, near Rochester in Kent and it was presumed that he would be buried at Rochester Cathedral although an Order in Council did not permit any interments in the ...

A copy of David Copperfield read by Captain Scott's Terra Nova expedition while stranded in an ice cave, and a handwritten manuscript of Oliver Twist are among the items marking 100 years of one of ...

But the proprietor's genius idea was simply to add the words 'THE OLD CURIOSITY SHOP – IMMORTALIZED BY CHARLES ... Dickens tourism, of course, continues to this day, even as we come to know the ...

A new book by the journalist Katherine Stewart finds a far-right movement seething in resentment, suspicious of reason and determined to dominate at all costs. By Jennifer Szalai Plenty of ...

For nine decades Penguin has been a byword for innovation, and I’m excited to see entries as diverse as our own publishing.” The Penguin Books Cover Design Award nurtures new design and illustration ...

A new exhibition celebrates 100 years of the Charles Dickens Museum ... his only suit to survive into our times, a pair of binoculars and his walking stick. The latter was particularly important ...