Charles Dickens

...offenders read classic literature can help prevent reoffending. The Stories Connect course uses stories and poems from Shakespeare, Steinbeck and Dickens among others. It is already introducing offenders at Parc Prison in Wales and...

In this article: Exeter University, John Steinbeck, Oliver Twist, Joe Simpson, William Shakespeare, and Touching the Void

...wrote in Islamic pentameter.) But he also includes vivid passages by Charles Dickens - one from "Great Expectations," the other from "Nicholas Nickelby" describing 19th-century amateur theatricals. (Rees, by the way, won Tony and...

In this article: Roger Rees, William Shakespeare, Royal Shakespeare Company, Literature, Macbeth, Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Henry V, and Great Expectations

Just start listing some of his characters: the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge, the deluded Miss Havisham, the repulsively unctuous Uriah Heep and, of course, the improvident yet ever upbeat Mr. Micawber, for whom something is bound to turn up.

In this article: Oliver Twist, Vladimir Nabokov, Bleak House, William Shakespeare, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, The Pickwick Papers, and Washington Irving

...and directed by Robert Zemeckis. At major theatres. PG Like a Shakespeare sonnet or Beatles tune, the Charles Dickens perennial A Christmas Carol is hardy enough to survive any abuse. Everyone from the Muppets to Mr. Magoo to Matthew...

In this article: Ebenezer Scrooge, Jim Carrey, A Christmas Carol, Disney, Robert Zemeckis, Gary Oldman, A Christmas Carol, Colin Firth, and Beowulf

...to Francis Bacon's Descriptio globi intellectualis ("Art is man added to nature"). Having read Dickens in English, he recommends Hard Times to his brother. Shakespeare, George Eliot, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Victor Hugo, Aeschylus: he read...

In this article: Vincent van Gogh, Rembrandt, William Shakespeare, Victor Hugo, Suicide, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, and The Potato Eaters

...Coleridge to Tennyson as "feeble variations on Shakespearean themes." Shakespeare influenced novelists such as Thomas Hardy, William Faulkner, and Charles Dickens. The American novelist Herman Melville's soliloquies owe much to...

In this article: William Shakespeare, Hamlet, First Folio, Ben Jonson, Macbeth, King Lear, Stratford, Othello, King's Men, and Troilus and Cressida

...current flows predominantly in the other direction. They gave us Shakespeare, Charles Dickens and Rudyard Kipling; we gave them Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Sylvia Plath. They gave us Twiggy, Teletubbies, the Beatles and the...

In this article: Tom Arnold, Library of Congress, England, Mike Myers, God, William Shakespeare, Washington Irving, Alfred Hitchcock, and Apple pie

Enid Blyton and Roald Dahl have been named the nation's best-loved writers, beating Harry Potter creator JK Rowling into third place and leaving literary giants such as Shakespeare, Jane Austen and Charles Dickens trailing. Blyton,...

In this article: Enid Blyton, Famous Five, William Shakespeare, Jane Austen, UK, Malory Towers, and The Guardian

...and Prejudice and Emma, is fourth in the nationwide survey of readers. She is followed by Shakespeare, Dickens and The Lord of the Rings author J R R Tolkien. The murder-mystery writer Agatha Christie is eighth, followed by the horror...

In this article: Enid Blyton, William Shakespeare, Chorion, Jane Austen, J K Rowling, Famous Five, Emma, and Pride and Prejudice