Dickens pared down A Christmas Carol for his public readings. Read an annotated version of Dickens' own reading text that can be read in a single sitting!
Map of Dickens' London
Learn more about the London locations Dickens wrote about
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Great animated
Life of Charles Dickens
by the BBC
Bits of Dickens...
Dickens in a single sitting:
Oliver Asks for More
Cratchit's Christmas
Steamboat Trip
Omnibuses
American Notes
More...
Dickens at the MoviesDickens' visual style of writing lends itself easily to the stage and screen. The Internet Movie Database lists over 200 films made from Dickens' novels.
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Charles Dickens: the name conjures up
visions of plum pudding and Christmas punch, quaint coaching inns and cozy
firesides, but also of orphaned and starving children, misers, murderers,
and abusive schoolmasters. Dickens was 19th century London personified,
he survived its mean streets as a child and, largely self-educated, possessed
the genius to become the greatest writer of his age. | See more on this topic... |
12-year-old Charles was removed from school and sent to work at a boot-blacking factory earning six shillings a week to help support the family.
earning six shillings a week to help support the family. This dark experience cast a shadow over the clever, sensitive boy that became a defining experience in his life, he would later write that he wondered "how I could have been so easily cast away at such an age".This childhood poverty and feelings of abandonment, although unknown to his readers until after his death, would be a heavy influence on Dickens' later views on social reform and the world he would create through his fiction.
Dickens would go on to write 15 major novels and countless short stories and articles before his death on June 9, 1870. He wished to be buried, without fanfare, in a small cemetery in Rochester, but the Nation would not allow it. He was laid to rest in Poet's Corner, Westminster Abbey, the flowers from thousands of mourners overflowing the open grave.
The stories, characters, and places he wrote about will live forever.
- Dickens Family Tree (17k pdf file)
- Dickens Biography - David Cody, Associate Professor of English, Hartwick College
- BBC Survive Dickens' London Game
- Gina Dalfonzo's DickensBlog
- Where was Dickens? A fascinating new chronology compiled by Phillip Currah
- Dickens is back...and hotter than ever!
- Disney's A Christmas Carol Video Game Announced
- Charles Dickens visits Bonanza??
- Video: Visit the Dickens Museum with Michael Rosen
- Glimpse of Disney's A Christmas Carol Train
- BBC offers major box sets devoted to Dickens and Shakespeare
- Ghosts of Girlfriends Past...the worst of times
- New adaptation of Little Dorrit airing March 29 - April 26, 2009 on PBS
- Stalker who loved Dickens
- Gina Dalfonzo's DickensBlog
- European Arts Company and Rhondda Cynon Taff Theatres present Dickens' The Pickwick Papers from 31 January to 4 April 2009
- Dickens 2012.org – portal for the Dickens Bicentenary
- Hurricane-Hit Galveston Celebrates Dickens Anyway
- A Dickens of a Tour: Charles Dickens in Washington December 13th, 20th and 27th 2008 - Natalie Zanin (Flyer)
Disney's A Christmas Carol - Opens November 6, 2009
The Charles Dickens Masterworks Collection Popular recent productions of Oliver Twist, The Old Curiosity Shop, Bleak House, Little Dorrit, and Great Expectations
A Christmas Carol 11/06/09
Disney's A Christmas Carol
The Train Tour
Two new novels inspired by Dickens' last, and uncompleted, novel, The Mystery of Edwin Drood:
Drood
By Dan Simmons (2009)
The Last Dickens
By Matthew Pearl (2009)
