It’s the holiday season which means that the roughly 9 billion adaptations of A Christmas Carol are on television playing in a continuous loop. But who was the man behind the season’s greatest ghost story? Charles Dickens is considered the greatest English writer, behind Shakespeare, to have ever lived. Tune in to learn about his time in the workhouse, how he influenced Edgar Allan Poe, and how his secret double life was almost his undoing.

Fiction

Mr. Dickens and His Carol by Samantha Silva - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34275234-mr-dickens-and-his-carol

Dodger by Terry Pratchett - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13516846-dodger

Grave Expectations by Heather Redmond - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42832913-grave-expectations

Non-fiction

Charles Dickens by Claire Tomalin - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11202585-charles-dickens

The Invisible Woman by Claire Tomalin - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18630581-the-invisible-woman

Podcasts

Charles Dickens and a Christmas Carol by History Goes Bump - http://historygoesbump.com/charles-dickens-and-a-christmas-carol-ep-91

How the Dickens Stole Christmas by The Allusionist - https://www.theallusionist.org/allusionist/dickens-christmas

Eating with Dickens by HistoryExtra - https://www.historyextra.com/period/victorian/eating-with-dickens/

Charles Dickens was a Master of Social Media by The Bigg Success Show - https://biggsuccess.com/2009/12/21/charles-dickens-was-a-master-of-social-media/

Movies & TV

Great Expectations (1998) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119223/

Pip (Great Expectations retold by South Park) - https://southpark.cc.com/clips/151994/great-expectations

List of the best movie adaptations of Dickens’ work - https://theculturetrip.com/europe/united-kingdom/articles/the-best-screen-adaptations-of-dickens-major-works/

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