http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/related-1363-charles-dickens/topic-rss.do Charles Dickens RSS feed http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/film/review-23765489-enjoy-a-thrill-ride-with-a-christmas-carol.do Robert Zemeckis's A Christmas Carol is splendidly mounted and visually imaginative animated 3D version of the classic novel 2009-11-06T00:00:00Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23761084-dickens-could-not-have-made-up-this-epic.do The extraordinary delays which have beset the May case are turning it into one which makes the convoluted Jarndyce and Jarndyce legal epic in Charles Dickens's Bleak House seem like an example of summary justice. 2009-10-27T08:38:02Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/showbiz/article-23746516-details/Little+Dorrit+steals+the+show+with+seven+Emmys/article.do The BBC's Little Dorrit won seven Emmy Awards for Britain at American television's equivalent of the Oscars 2009-09-21T05:28:37Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23738646-more-debt-repaid-than-taken-out-for-first-time-on-record.do 2009-09-01T09:19:19Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23717961-why-art-is-the-social-lubricant-of-our-great-city.do At last night’s annual Serpentine Summer party, London shoulders its way to the front of the queue when it comes to sexing up the art world 2009-07-10T07:08:43Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard-business/article-23709049-hedges-move-out-and-the-deadly-weed-moves-in.do Charles Dickens would have loved these post-collapse days. Every day brings a fresh tale of upturned human fortune 2009-06-18T07:10:13Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23696862-the-thames-delivers-up-a-ghoulish-cargo.do I walk beside the Thames almost every day - through Battersea Park - keeping an eye open for any corpses floating past 2009-05-22T07:36:27Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23658471-cherish-the-victorians-style-and-vision---but-dont-forget-their-slums.do 2009-03-06T11:50:33Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23656598-what-children-need-is-love-not-the-right-sort-of-family.do My friend's email said she had "some surprising news". She did indeed. The news was a four-week-old adopted baby. My friend has just turned 50. 2009-03-03T09:52:20Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23620225-heathrow-battle-begins-today.do The real battle for the future of Heathrow starts today, as the Transport Secretary announces his approval for a third runway - as this paper predicted last Friday 2009-01-15T09:17:58Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/theatre/review-23620143-oliver-needs-more-of-a-twist.do What kept the first-nighters teetering on the verge of delighted hysteria throughout the almost £5 million extravaganza that is Oliver!?. 2009-01-15T00:00:00Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23620173-im-reviewing-this-as-a-smash-hit-situation.do 2009-01-15T09:11:42Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23593737-thames-national-park-to-be-dickensian-idyll.do Plans for a Thames Estuary national park returning 50 miles of Kent and Essex wetlands to the state of wilderness immortalised by Charles Dickens were unveiled today. 2008-11-27T14:14:37Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23575564-a-critique-of-capitalism-little-dorritt-could-not-be-more-relevant.do George Bernard Shaw declared Little Dorrit "a more seditious book than Das Kapital"; George Orwell said that "in Little Dorrit, Dickens attacked English institutions with a ferocity that has never since been approached". This Sunday the BBC kicks off its 14-part adaptation of the Charles Dickens story adapted for the screen by Andrew Davies. 2008-10-21T07:50:24Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23550483-chaplins-spell-in-workhouse-is-revealed-as-records-are-put-on-the-net.do The largest collection of London's historical records ever to go online will reveal details of Charlie Chaplin's spell in a Southwark workhouse and the baptism of Charles Dickens's son 2008-09-03T08:06:45Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/restaurants/article-23550584-best-grouse-hare-and-venison-in-london.do Country comes to town as we find top places to eat grouse, hare and venison. Let your appetite for game run wild. 2008-09-03T11:50:21Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/showbiz/article-23542178-bond-girl-gemma-to-play-tess-of-the-durbevilles-as-tv-turns-back-to-costume-dramas.do It is a truth universally acknowledged - especially among female viewers - that you can never have too many costume dramas. 2008-08-20T11:12:30Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23542053-whats-new-on-television-this-autumn-austen-hardy-and-dickens.do You could call them credit crunch classics - reliable dramas for worrying times 2008-08-20T09:38:19Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23538942-lashings-of-votes-for-enid-in-readers-poll.do Enid Blyton has been named best-loved author of all time in a new poll 2008-08-18T12:53:25Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/days-out/article-23513386-museums-and-indoor-attractions-to-visit.do Daralyn Danns checks out what to see and do at museums and other indoor attractions. 2008-07-08T14:31:40Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23479673-how-romance-blossomed-among-the-silent-readers.do Lady Antonia Fraser complains that the British Library Reading Room has become overrun by undergraduates who are hogging all the desks. Her fellow historian Tristram Hunt bemoans the fact it is now a "groovy place" to meet for a frappuccino. Many feared that when the old Reading Room closed, the British Library would lose its charm. Far from it. It has become more fashionable than ever as a social venue 2008-04-22T08:04:06Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23479468-british-library-like-a-branch-of-starbooks-say-the-literati.do Prominent authors have complained that two the British Library's Reading Room has been overtaken by frappuccino drinking students giggling with their friends, playing on laptops and texting their mates. 2008-04-21T08:05:52Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/events/article-23478752-nine-dickens-works-crammed-into-a-single-evening.do Dickens Unplugged romps through nine of the author’s works before wrapping up his complete oeuvre in song for the finale. 2008-04-16T11:11:31Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/restaurants/review-23431466-snuggle-up-in-our-top-10-cosy-corners.do We find the top 10 venues where good food and a welcoming atmosphere will banish those winter blues. 2008-01-09T00:00:00Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/theatre/review-23426613-a-feast-of-comedy.do A vigorous production of Nicholas Nickleby is a feast of comic amusement in part one which declines into a session of extended dullness in part two. 2007-12-10T00:00:00Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/events/article-23425312-londons-best-pantomimes.do From some classic Charles Dickens to Stephen Fry's racy Old Vic production, Fiona Mountford rounds up this year's bumper crop of festive family shows. 2007-12-03T09:56:46Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/theatre/review-23408595-in-the-rubble-of-south-africas-broken-dream.do Victory, by South Africa's greatest playwright, Athol Fugard, is a decent but thoroughly uninspired piece of new writing, says Kieron Quirke. 2007-08-15T23:00:00Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/events/article-23391205-what-the-dickens-is-going-on-here.do A visitor attraction devoted to the life and works of Charles Dickens will open at a £62million complex in what was once the Royal Naval Dockyard. 2007-04-02T08:51:46Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/events/article-23390750-dickens-last-home-may-open-to-public.do The last home of Charles Dickens - where he wrote three of his greatest works - could be opened to the public for the first time. 2007-03-29T10:24:39Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/restaurants/article-23378962-the-ultimate-pub-guide.do Kate Moss has decreed that pubs beat parties, clubs or bars. Luckily, London has a fantastic array of watering holes. Here we select the best places to huddle this Christmas. 2006-12-20T11:30:16Z