Until recently those were our reading options. As with everything else, whether it’s ice cream or television, things are much more complicated now. We are way beyond vanilla and chocolate, way beyond ...

Everybody knows the story of Ebenezer Scrooge and how his bah humbug spirit was transformed on one fateful Christmas Eve. As with any iconic character, though, Scrooge was first born in the ...

Anita Singh is the Telegraph’s arts and entertainment editor. She joined the Telegraph in 2008, covering television, books, music, film and popular culture, and has written extensively about the BBC.

When Charles Dickens began writing his first novel—in 1836, the year before Victoria took the throne—the literacy rate in England was less than 50 percent. By the end of her reign, in 1901, it was 97 ...

HALLOWELL — The Hubbard Free Library continued to climb closer to its annual fundraising goal by hosting a reading of Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” in the City Hall Auditorium. The event, ...

A century and a half since he died, his protocinematic storytelling retains its power to take readers out of themselves. Please help choose one for us to enjoy together This June marks 150 years since ...

This month’s Reading group choice Our Mutual Friend shows off the novelist’s prodigious gifts for fond characterisation – a lovable miracle in days like these It may seem like a banal observation to ...