In the pages of his novels, Charles Dickens railed against injustice in all its forms -- the miserliness of Ebenezer Scrooge, the indifference of the aristocrac

This study of Nicholas Nickleby takes the Dickens novel which is perhaps the least critically discussed, though it is very popular, and examines its appeal and

In his most enthralling novel yet, the critically acclaimed author Matthew Pearl reopens one of literary history’s greatest mysteries. The Last Dickens is a t

Winner, Plutarch Award for Best Biography: A “marvelous exploration” of Dickens’s life and how it shaped his extraordinarily popular novels (Kirkus Review

This literary and cultural study explores the practice in nineteenth-century Britain of treasuring objects that had belonged to the dead.