Charles Dickens News

Website puts you in league of literary greats
For anyone who has ever thought Charles Dickens was lurking inside his or her prose, a new website claims it can find your inner author.

Memorial to Pickwick Papers artist resurrected to 'right a moral wrong'
London museum unveils gravestone of Robert Seymour, the artist who killed himself after 'being dropped' by Charles Dickens The scene on 20 April 1836 was horrific: the artist lay in a welter of gore on the floor of the summerhouse at his London home, his coat and waistcoat burning from the ferocity of the shotgun blast which had killed him. Now, a century after Robert Seymour's memorial ...

'Oliver Twist' gets a Chambersburg twist
There will be a Chambersburg twist to the "Oliver Twist" story July 31 as Chambersburg Community Theatre and Chambersburg s Capitol Theatre present a campers performance of the famous Charles Dickens novel.

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‘Oliver!’ in St. Martin
ST. MARTINVILLE — The British musical “Oliver!” is being brought to the stage this weekend by the Evangeline Players, which is comprised of actors young and old from all over the Teche Area.

Lawyers make a feast of reform
Australians are familiar with the Magic Pudding, a fantastic creation in that no matter how much of it is eaten by Bill Barnacle, Bunyip Bluegum and friends, it always returns to its original size and shape. The Magic Pudding is a bit like the legal profession - forever plumped up.

Frost in lead heading into final round of South Carolina Open
Within minutes after the completion of his morning round Wednesday, Charles Frost took the short str

Mystery clouds Stieg Larsson’s fourth manuscript
STOCKHOLM — It is September in Sachs Harbour, northern Canada. In the cold and desolate landscape, Mikael Blomqvist and Lisbeth Salander are about to begin a new adventure.

Black Leaders Chide Obama White House, 'Right-Wing Press'
Aging heroes of the civil rights movement and younger African-American leaders on Wednesday offered differing views of the challenges most urgently confronting black America, with some calling for a continued push to reform the U.S. criminal justice system and others emphasizing economic achievement.

Author Skrypuch researches latest book in Kap
Canadian author Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch was in Kapuskasing recently, researching her latest project – a young-adult book about the internment of Turks in the camps located in Kapuskasing during the first World War.