The BBC has been adapting the novels of Charles Dickens for as long as it’s been doing drama. What’s new is the depth and breadth — OK, the length — of the latest TV versions, the most recent being ...

Laurel Ann Nattress of AustenProse writes "Affairs of the heart populate episode two with hopes and aspirations for all of the unattached characters in Masterpiece Classic's miniseries of Little ...

My Summer School assignment was going to be “Little Dorrit.” Not that I had passed up “Little Dorrit” on my high school’s summer reading list. It had never been there. Only the most standard of ...

regulars, Christine Edzard`s adaptation of Charles Dickens` ”Little Dorrit” could easily be mistaken for a public television series that has somehow slipped its moorings. But ”Little Dorrit” is a ...

Audiences for the latest BBC costume drama serial Little Dorrit have fallen to as little as 3.8 million per episode only halfway through its run. The adaptation of Charles Dickens' novel, has seen ...

When you spend a third of your day with adolescents, you get a close look at social structures--sometimes too close! Although most of my students would scoff at reading 800 pages of nineteenth century ...

Charles Dickens wrote big, long books, and when his books become movies it’s good to make them big and long as well. His many-tendriled, twisty plots can be pruned and compressed with some success -- ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Each realist novel collects, interprets, and transmits information about what it means to be human in a certain time and place. Part of ...

Melik Kaylan's piece, "Spoiled Borat" (editorial page, Nov. 9) accomplishes two howlers in its second sentence. He writes, "'Borat,' now playing in packed theaters, brings to mind an old Oscar Wilde ...

Writer Andrew Davies applied his quill pen to adapting a number of Jane Austen novels before tackling Charles Dickens' "Bleak House," and he's back with another sprawling, impeccably cast PBS ...