He is an agreeable, ingenuous but also resourceful boy. The story of his encounter ... Alfred’s cook makes their dinner from her book of Catherine Dickens’ recipes, adapted to what is ...

Christmas and Charles Dickens have gone together at least since the wonderful Dingley Dell chapters of "The Pickwick Papers," while a somewhat later book ... The boys, moreover, were doubly ...

Great Expectations' was perhaps the first "big book ... Dickens's sons knew pastoral despair in the late 19th century. The story of questing Pip is still fresh, and paralleled the two Dickens boys ...

The Dickens Boy, by Tom Keneally. Vintage. $32.99. Charles Dickens's son Edward (known as Plorn) followed his older brother Alfred to Australia in 1868. In The Dickens Boy, Tom Keneally has ...

All those unread books!—the must-reads of last ... Everywhere the boy turns, he meets singular souls. Dickens rivals Shakespeare in his fascination with nature’s sheer prodigality in creating ...

The fearsome Redlaw and the Boy was ... The Charles Dickens Illustrated Gallery. In 1843 the Victorian novelist wrote A Christmas Carol and started the phenomenon of the festive book.

Followed categories will be added to My News. New book The Lost Boys of Mr Dickens tells the real-life story of two young boys sent from England to the prison — and the shocking moment the day ...