Dickens World, a theme park in Chatham, offers an 1800s immersion. The novelist, says the attraction's Kevin Christie, "was a showman. He would have loved this." Stuart Conway In an abandoned ...

Over the next 10 years, Dickens was busy writing Oliver Twist, Nicholas Nickleby, A Christmas Carol, Dombey and Son, David Copperfield, Bleak House and Hard Times. He also kept Catherine busy with ...

It’s a story as old as time, or industrialization, which may be why the English title of the trilogy’s second entry, “Youth (Hard Times),” evokes Charles Dickens’s 1854 novel set in a ...

Dickens' satire of a target-driven society that stifles art, wonder and imagination. Stars David Morrissey, Rachel Harper, Jan Ravens and Shaun Dooley. Dramatised by Graham White. Show more "Now ...

David Morrissey is starring in a new Radio 4 dramatisation of Charles Dickens's Hard Times and spoke with Radio Times about the project.

Dickens illustrates that the so-called “useful” things of the world — facts, work, and money — ultimately prove to be useless in life’s major crises, while the “useless” activities scorned by the ...

Spread the loveCharles Dickens, a literary colossus of the Victorian era, has bequeathed to the world a treasure trove of novels, teeming with unforgettable characters, piercing social commentary, and ...

By all accounts, Charles Dickens enjoyed a party, yet there are no reports of him being manhandled into a horse and carriage after hitting the sherry too hard. But he did manage to throw one hell ...

It’s hard to overstate the pleasure of reading Jane Smiley — especially, for me, her essays. A new collection, “The Questions that Matter Most,” offers a case in point. Line for line ...

Fans of Charles Dickens are in for a treat as the latest edition of the Victorian Book Club will examine his 1854 novel, “Hard Times” Sunday, April 2 at 1:30 p.m. Reservations are required and ...

Satire is a literary tool in which a writer ridicules an institution or society as a whole or a type of person or humanity as a whole through irony, sarcasm ...