"Bah Humbug!" That's how Ebenezer Scrooge feels about Christmas—until the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future decide to show the crotchety old miser the error of his ways. Together they...

"Every idiot who goes about with ‘Merry Christmas' on his lips should be boiled with his own pudding," says Scrooge. Mean old Scrooge despises Christmas, until Christmas Eve, when a haunted voice...

Here is a perfect coupling for those Christmas evenings of Christmas journeys. The greatest Christmas story is Dickens’ A Christmas Carol which has never lost its charm as Scrooge learns compassion...

No writer is more identified with the modern idea of Christmas than Charles Dickens. In some ways, Dickens helped define the holiday that we now celebrate by immortalizing it as a time of warmth and...

One of the most revered works in English literature, Great Expectations traces the coming-of-age of a young orphan, Pip, from a boy of shallow aspirations into a man of self-possession. From...

Who can forget Miss Havisham, terrifying as she molders in the ruined shrine to her aborted wedding day? Dickens's gift was to paint characters whose dilemmas, though often shocking, ring true, and...

Set in London's backstreet slums, Oliver Twist is the story of a workhouse orphan captured and thrust into a den of thieves, where some of Dickens's most depraved villains preside: the...

This screen adaptation of the Charles Dickens classic tale was the first talking version. The story centers on young Oliver Twist (Dickie Moore), an orphan child living in 19th Century London. ...