Charles Dickens Archives

Charles Dickens

The Serene Steamroller

by Joy Williams,

On Kafka

An Unprecedented Twist

by Donald Hughes,

A plan for supplementary gruel must be rejected

The Worst of Spines

by Charles Dickens,

From an 1851 “list of imitation book-backs” sent by Charles Dickens to a London bookbinder, who fabricated mock books with the fake titles. The New York Public Library re-created part…

Charles Dickens’s Mock Book Titles

by Harper’s Magazine,

From an 1851 “list of imitation book-backs” sent by Charles Dickens to a London bookbinder.

Dickens plays the Sands

by Patricia Vinci,

Christmas carol

by Lewis H. Lapham,

Eminently Victorian

by Richard West,

David Copperfield might have been written by the queen

Caspar W. Weinberger’s window of vulnerability

Drawn by Steve Brodner,

Storytelling on records

by Edward Tatnall Canby,

Numbers and enigmas

by Paul Murphy Pickrel,

Lizzie’s parent–

by Harper’s Staff,