“Through his works and his career, Dickens became a major symbol of 19th-century London and Victorian society as a whole. His thoughtful melancholy and brigh...

Gustav Shpet’s commentary on Charles Dickens’s novel “The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club,” compiled in 1934, has not lost its historical and literary...

“Through his works and his career, Dickens became a major symbol of 19th-century London and Victorian society as a whole. His thoughtful melancholy and brigh...

From a bitter and poverty-stricken childhood to a career as the most acclaimed and best loved writer in the English-speaking world, Charles Dickens had a ...