Well celebrated writings from across the world with the appreciable writing style of legendary authors and popular works ...

So it's worth remembering that Charles Dickens wrote ... weapon in Dickens' best moments, could turn to bathos in his worst. "The Cricket on the Hearth," his 1845 Christmas book, was a greater ...

(Via Flickr) But what’s been missing from the articles I’ve read about these works is the recognition of Dickens ... was the best-selling author in Victorian England, writing novels that ...

So many books, yet so little time to read! Do you not know where to start and how to indulge in understanding the most ...

from my favorite English novelist’s lesser known book, “The Life and Times of Martin Chuzzlewit,” (1843), which Dickens once told a friend was his “best work thus far.” Dickens was no ...

It was the best of times ... Here’s something: Charles Dickens never mentions a London railway station by name in any of his 15 novels (nor in the other books I read). I think I’m the first ...

With stories set in Ancient Rome, Gilded Age New York, and more, these are the most anticipated historical fiction books of ...

The Next Chapter columnist and CBC Books senior producer Ryan B. Patrick reviews Great Expectations by Vinson Cunningham, The ...

Ye Olde Chesire Cheese is known for being really old (it's in the name after all) — so old it had to be rebuilt after the ...

This collection includes a moving supernatural romance, eye-opening historical accounts, a portrait of a poet and the ...

The Italian novelist, Umberto Eco once said something that I should have printed on a T-shirt, even though it would take both ...