Heralded as one of the best—if not the best—novelists of the Victorian era, Charles Dickens longed for fame from an early age ...

It is stated, and on the very best authority, that within the 12 years that have passed since Dickens's death no less than 4,239,000 volumes of his works have teen sold in England alone!

A museum in the 19th century London home in which the British writer wrote Oliver Twist and The Pickwick Papers, has now been ...