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The author tells why he spent five years on a new draft of his 2008 novel Starbook to give more emphasis to one of its key themes

The editors claim the idea, created by writers such as Charles Dickens, is a myth. 

Museum exhibit reveals the huge effect the The Pickwick Papers had on readers

Letter: Generations of older Germans at secondary schools have read Theodore Fontane’s Grete Minde as a set book, writes Harry Schneider

Guardian Australia’s weekday wrap of essential reads and enthralling stories selected by Rafqa Touma

The writer’s archaic shorthand has baffled experts for over a century. So they launched a deciphering competition for fans – with stunning results that cast new light on his love life and financial peril

On this day 210 years ago, renowned British author Charles Dickens was born. His novels offered an unflinching look at the lives of the English poor.

In The Queen's Platinum Jubilee message to the country, she set out her wish for Camilla to be crowned Queen consort, at the Prince of Wales' side

Charles Dickens coined the popular expression that associates the monarch with fine weather

“Read Jane Eyre if you dare” warned papers recently. The Daily Mail had sent a request for information to Salford University and subsequently claimed that the institution had issued “trigger warnings” on a literature module that included Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre and Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations.

Daguerreotype profile shows an unfamiliar face to modern readers but delighted the author, who found the whiskers ‘charming, charming’