MR. TONY WELLER, when Mr. Pickwick praised the intelligence of his son Samuel, expressed his pleasure at the compliment as something which reflected honor on himself. “I took,” he said, “ a great deal ...

Anyone who has read the Anne of Green Gables series (bear with me, men) might remember the chapter midway through Anne of the Island when Gilbert Blythe first proposes to Anne. It’s terribly exciting ...

"One of my life's greatest tragedies," said George Orwell, "is to have already read Pickwick Papers. I can't go back and read it for the first time." The serialized novel of 1836 was one of the first ...

This story of the Pickwick Papers’ prehistory dramatises the lives of those who were caught up in, and destroyed by, its triumph Like many an early-Victorian classic – Vanity Fair is an obvious ...

It was in the long, hot summer of 1975, after finishing university and before the shades of the prison-house – finding a job – closed in that somehow, for reasons I cannot now recall, I found myself ...

Anne V. Coates, who won an Oscar for editing “Lawrence of Arabia” and also cut “Becket,” “In the Line of Fire” and “Out of Sight,” will be feted with the Los Angeles Film Critics Assn.’s Career ...

“There are very few moments in a man’s existence, when he experiences so much ludicrous distress, or meets with so little charitable commiseration, as when he is in pursuit of his own hat.” Yet there ...

Two hundred years after Dickens wrote The Pickwick Papers a fascinating collection of documents from a real-life Pickwick Club inspired by the book is to be auctioned 'Mr Pickwick speaks at the club'.

"One of my life's greatest tragedies," said George Orwell, "is to have already read Pickwick Papers. I can't go back and read it for the first time." The serialized novel of 1836 was one of the first ...