"One of my life's greatest tragedies," said George Orwell, "is to have already read Pickwick Papers. I can't go back and read it for the first time." The serialized novel of 1836 was one of the first ...

Four wealthy Victorian gentlemen led by Samuel Pickwick set forth on an objective study of human behavior, thwarted by con ...

MR. TONY WELLER, when Mr. Pickwick praised the intelligence of his son Samuel, expressed his pleasure at the compliment as something which reflected honor on himself. “I took,” he said, “ a great deal ...

Anne V. Coates, who won an Oscar for editing “Lawrence of Arabia” and also cut “Becket,” “In the Line of Fire” and “Out of Sight,” will be feted with the Los Angeles Film Critics Assn.’s Career ...

Anyone who has read the Anne of Green Gables series (bear with me, men) might remember the chapter midway through Anne of the Island when Gilbert Blythe first proposes to Anne. It’s terribly exciting ...

This marriage ain't big enough for the both of them.

It is the one story he tried to keep from his public. Charles Dickens made his name in 1836 with his first novel, The Pickwick Papers, but his success came at a price - another man’s life. Hungry for ...

“There are very few moments in a man’s existence, when he experiences so much ludicrous distress, or meets with so little charitable commiseration, as when he is in pursuit of his own hat.” Yet there ...

Owen Paterson emerged from the weekly cabinet meeting in Downing Street on Tuesday looking pleased and clutching a little present. To celebrate the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Dickens, ...