The Christmas special will feature Stephen Fry as the evil lawyer ... Charles Dickens stands alone as perhaps the world's most popular novelist. His characters are famous in their own right, his ...

One of the first novels to feature an interwoven narrative, Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities follows the lives of one exiled aristocrat, Charles Darnay, and a lawyer named Sydney Carton.

Almost 200 years ago, Charles Dickens ... When he grew up, Dickens became a journalist and wrote for newspapers. He also wrote stories from his own imagination, called novels.