If you click on links we provide, we may receive compensation. ‘Five Weeks in the Country’ is a fictionalized account of the summer that Andersen overstayed his welcome at Dickens' country home Carly ...

NEW YORK — To hear Philip Palmer, the literary curator at the Morgan Library & Museum tell it, the story behind the writing of "A Christmas Carol" sounds, well, like something out of Charles Dickens.

In 1812, the year Charles Dickens was born, there were 66 novels published in Britain. People had been writing novels for a century–most critics date the genre to Robinson Crusoe in 1719–but nobody ...

Classic novels often explain power better than modern leadership manuals. By looking closely at Austen, Dickens, and Woolf, this piece shows how authority works through class, systems, and psychology, ...

Even if you don't celebrate Christmas, it's hard to ignore. And if you do celebrate the holiday, chances are you've adapted some traditions that were popularized in the mid-1800s by one writer - ...