A Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations (Oprah's Book Club) (56 page)

Ackroyd, Peter.
Dickens’ London: An Imaginative Vision
. London: Headline Book Publishers, PLC, 1987.

Allen, Michael.
Charles Dickens’s Childhood
. London: Macmillan, 1988.

Bodenheimer, Rosemarie.
Knowing Dickens
. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2007.

Cohen, Jane R.
Charles Dickens and His Original Illustrators
. Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 1980.

Dickens, Cedric.
Dining With Dickens: Being a Ramble Through Dickensian Foods
. Goring-on-Thames: Elvedon Press, 1984.

Dickens, Charles Jr.
Dickens’s Dictionary of London 1888: An Unconventional Handbook
. Devon: Old House Books (facsimile of 1888), 1995.

Fitzgerald, Percy.
Bozland: Dickens’ Places and People
. Ann Arbor, MI: Gryphon Books, 1971.

Hobsbaum, Philip.
A Reader’s Guide to Charles Dickens
. London: Thames and Hudson, 1972.

Jones, Richard.
Walking Dickensian London
. London: New Holland Publishers, Ltd., 2004.

Matz, B. W.
Dickensian Inns and Taverns
. Bristol: Burleigh, Ltd., 1922.

Mitchell, Sally.
Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia
. London: Garland Publishing Inc., 1988.

Page, Norman.
A Dickens Chronology
. Boston: G. K. Hall and Co., 1988.

Rooke, Patrick.
The Age of Dickens
. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1970.

Smiley, Jane.
Dickens
. New York: Viking, 2002.

York, Trevor.
The Victorian House Explained
. Newbury Berkshire: Countryside Books, 2005.

For Dickens’s Novels

(films in English, with director, 1920–2008)

Nearly all of Dickens’s novels have been adapted for the screen, and many have been subject to regular updates. A few recommendations from a long list of productions are offered here. The Masterpiece Theatre production of
Bleak House
(2005) was well received. Classic productions include the 1946 version of
Great Expectations
, directed by David Lean, and the 1935 version of
A Tale of Two Cities
, directed by Jack Conway. There is a well-respected 1982 TV miniseries version of
Nicholas Nickleby
with the Royal Shakespeare Company. The Oscar-winning 1935 version of
David Copperfield
, directed by George Cukor, and two
Oliver Twist
s, one directed by Renny Rye (1999) and another directed by Roman Polanski (2005), are also recommended. Christine Edzard’s
Little Dorrit
(1988), Simon Curtis’s
David Copperfield
(1999),
Our Mutual Friend
(1998), directed by Julian Farino, and
The Pickwick Papers
(1952), directed by Noel Langley, are other respected productions.

Little Dorrit
(1920) (silent film); director: Sidney Morgan.

Bleak House
(1920) (silent film); director: Maurice Elvey.

The Old Curiosity Shop
(1921) (silent film); director: Thomas Bentley.

Oliver Twist, Jr.
(1921) (silent film); director: Millard Webb.

The Adventures of Mr. Pickwick
(1921) (silent film); director: Thomas Bentley.

A Tale of Two Cities
(1922) (silent film); director: W. Courtney Rowden.

Scrooge
(1922) (silent film); director: George Wynn.

Nancy
(1922) (silent film, based on
Oliver Twist
); director: H. B. Parkinson.

Fagin
(1922) (silent film, based on
Oliver Twist
); director: H. B. Parkinson.

Bleak House
(1922) (silent film); director: H. B. Parkinson.

Oliver Twist
(1922) (silent film); director: Frank Lloyd.

David Copperfield
(1922) (silent film); director: A. W. Sandberg.

Scrooge
(1923) (silent film); director: Edwin Greenwood.

The Cricket on the Hearth
(1923) (silent film); director: Lorimer Johnston.

The Only Way
(1925) (silent film based on
A Tale of Two Cities
); director: Herbert Wilcox.

Bleak House
(1926); directors: Lee De Forest, Widgey R. Newman.

Scrooge
(1928); director: Hugh Croise.

Rich Man’s Folly
(1931) (based on
Dombey and Son
); director: John Cromwell.

Oliver Twist
(1933); director: William J. Cowen.

The Old Curiosity Shop
(1934); director: Thomas Bentley.

Great Expectations
(1934); director: Stuart Walker.

The Personal History, Adventures, Experience, and Observation of David Copperfield, the Younger
(1935); director: George Cukor.

Mystery of Edwin Drood
(1935); director: Stuart Walker.

Scrooge
(1935); director: Henry Edwards.

A Tale of Two Cities
(1935); director: Jack Conway.

A Christmas Carol
(1938); director: Edwin L. Marin.

A Christmas Carol
(1943) (TV production); director: George Lowther.

Great Expectations
(1946); director: David Lean.

Nicholas Nickleby
(1947); director: Alberto Cavalcanti.

Scrooge
(1951) (
A Christmas Carol
); director: Brian Desmond Hurst.

The Pickwick Papers
(1952); director: Noel Langley.

Story of the Christmas Carol
(1955) (TV production); director: David Barnhizer.

Nicholas Nickleby
(1957) (TV series); director: Eric Tayler.

A Tale of Two Cities
(1957) (TV miniseries); director: John Keir Cross.

A Tale of Two Cities
(1958); director: Ralph Thomas.

Great Expectations
(1959) (TV series); written by P. D. Cummins.

Bleak House
(1959) (TV series); written by Constance Cox.

The Mystery of Edwin Drood
(1960) (TV miniseries); director: Mark Lawton.

The Old Curiosity Shop
(1962) (TV miniseries); director: Joan Craft.

Mister Magoo’s Christmas Carol
(1962) (TV production) (animation); director: Abe Levitow.

Mr. Scrooge
(1964) (TV production); director: Bob Jarvis.

Martin Chuzzlewit
(1964) (TV miniseries); director: Joan Craft.

Carol for Another Christmas
(1964) (TV production); written by Rod Serling; director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz.

A Tale of Two Cities
(1965) (TV series); director: Joan Craft.

David Copperfield
(1966) (TV series, incomplete); director: Joan Craft.

Great Expectations
(1967) (TV series); director: Alan Bridges.

Cricket on the Hearth
(1967) (TV production); directors: Jules Bass, Arthur Rankin, Jr.

Nicholas Nickleby
(1968) (TV miniseries); director: Joan Craft.

Dombey and Son
(1969) (TV miniseries); director: Joan Craft.

Oliver!
(1968) (musical); director: Carol Reed.

David Copperfield
(1969) (TV production); director: Delbert Mann.

Scrooge
(1970); director: Ronald Neame.

A Christmas Carol
(1970) (TV production); director: Zoran Janjic.

Great Expectations
(1971); director: Leonhard Gmür.

A Christmas Carol
(1971) (TV production) (animation); director: Richard Williams.

Great Expectations
(1974) (TV production); director: Joseph Hardy.

David Copperfield
(1974) (TV miniseries); director: Joan Craft.

The Old Curiosity Shop
(1975); director: Michael Tuchner.

Our Mutual Friend
(1976) (TV miniseries); director: Peter Hammond.

The Signalman
(1976) (TV production); director: Lawrence Gordon Clark.

Hard Times
(1977) (TV series); director: John Irvin.

Nicholas Nickleby
(1977) (TV miniseries); director: Christopher Barry.

A Christmas Carol
(1977) (TV production); director: Moira Armstrong.

Scrooge
(1978) (TV production); director: John Blanchard.

The Stingiest Man in Town
(1978) (TV production) (animation); directors: Jules Bass, Arthur Rankin, Jr.

The Old Curiosity Shop
(1979) (TV miniseries); director: Julian Amyes.

An American Christmas Carol
(1979) (TV production); director: Eric Till.

A Christmas Carol at Ford’s Theatre
(1979) (filmed play); director: uncredited.

The Further Adventures of Oliver Twist
(1980) (TV series); directors: Ian Fordyce and Paul Harrison.

A Tale of Two Cities
(1980) (TV miniseries); director: Michael E. Briant.

A Tale of Two Cities
(1980); director: Jim Goddard.

Great Expectations
(1981) (TV miniseries); director: Julian Amyes.

A Christmas Carol
(1981) (TV production); director: Laird Williamson.

Oliver Twist
(1982) (TV production) (animation); director: Richard Slapcynski.

A Christmas Carol
(1982) (TV production) (animation); director: Jean Tych.

Oliver Twist
(1982) (TV production); director: Clive Donner.

The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
(1982) (TV miniseries); directors: John Caird, Jim Goddard.

Great Expectations
(1983) (TV production) (animation); director: Alexander Buzo.

Emlyn Williams as Charles Dickens
(1983) (TV production) (dramatic reading); director: uncredited.

David Copperfield
(1983) (TV production) (animation); director: Alexander Buzo.

Dombey & Son
(1983) (TV miniseries); director: Rodney Bennett.

Mickey’s Christmas Carol
(1983) (animation); director: Burny Mattinson.

A Tale of Two Cities
(1984) (TV production); director: Di Rudder.

A Christmas Carol
(1984) (TV production); director: Clive Donner.

Christmas Carol
(1984) (TV production); director: Pierre Boutron.

The Pickwick Papers
(1985) (twelve TV episodes); director: Brian Lighthill.

Bleak House
(1985) (TV miniseries); director: Ross Devenish.

Oliver Twist
(1985) (TV miniseries); director: Gareth Davies.

David Copperfield
(1986) (TV miniseries); director: Barry Letts.

Christmas
(1988) (TV production) (
John Grin’s Christmas
); director: Robert Guillaume.

Blackadder’s Christmas Carol
(1988) (TV production); director: Richard Boden.

Little Dorrit
(1988); director: Christine Edzard.

Oliver & Company
(1988) (animation); director: George Scribner.

Scrooged
(1988); director: Richard Donner.

A Tale of Two Cities
(1989) (TV miniseries); director: Philippe Monnier.

Great Expectations
(1989) (TV miniseries); director: Kevin Connor.

Scrooge: A Christmas Sarah
(1990) (TV production); director: Peter Leslie.

The Adventures of Oliver Twist
(1991) (animation); director: Fernandez Ruiz.

The Muppet Christmas Carol
(1992); director: Brian Henson.

The Mystery of Edwin Drood
(1993); director: Timothy Forder.

David Copperfield
(1993) (TV production) (animation); director: Don Arioli.

Hard Times
(1994) (TV production); director: Peter Barnes.

A Christmas Carol
(1994) (DVD) (animation); director: Toshiyuki Hiruma.

Martin Chuzzlewit
(1994) (TV miniseries); director: Pedr James.

A Christmas Carol
(1994) (TV production) (ballet); director: Christopher Gable.

Bah, Humbug!: The Story of Charles Dickens’ ‘A Christmas Carol’
(1994) (TV production) (dramatic reading with James Earl Jones and Martin Sheen); director: Derek Bailey.

The Old Curiosity Shop
(1995) (TV production); director: Kevin Connor.

Ebenezer
(1997) (TV production); director: Ken Jubenvill.

A Christmas Carol
(1997) (animation); director: Stan Phillips.

Oliver Twist
(1997) (TV production); director: Tony Bill.

Ms. Scrooge
(1997) (TV production); director: John Korty.

Great Expectations
(1998); director: Alfonso Cuarón.

Our Mutual Friend
(1998) (TV miniseries); director: Julian Farino.

Great Expectations
(1999) (TV production); director: Julian Jarrold.

Oliver Twist
(1999) (TV miniseries); director: Renny Rye.

A Christmas Carol
(1999) (TV production); director: David Hugh Jones.

David Copperfield
(1999) (TV production); director: Simon Curtis.

The Mystery of Charles Dickens
(2000) (TV production) (drama starring Simon Callow); director: Patrick Garland.

A Christmas Carol
(2000) (TV production); director: Catherine Morshead.

David Copperfield
(2000) (TV production); director: Peter Medak.

The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
(2001) (TV production); director: Stephen Whittaker.

Christmas Carol: The Movie
(2001) (animation); director: Jimmy T. Murakami.

Escape of the Artful Dodger
(2001) (five TV episodes); creator: Roger Mirams; directors: Sophia Turkiewicz, Howard Rubie.

Micawber
(2001) (TV production); director: Adrian Shergold.

Nicholas Nickleby
(2002); director: Douglas McGrath.

Twist
(2003); director: Jacob Tierney.

Boy Called Twist
(2004); director: Tim Greene.

A Christmas Carol
(2004) (
A Christmas Carol: The Musical
) (TV production); director: Arthur Allan Seidelman.

Karroll’s Christmas
(2004) (TV production); director: Dennis Dugan.

Oliver Twist
(2005); director: Roman Polanski.

Bleak House
(2005) (TV production); directors: Justin Chadwick and Susanna White.

Oliver Twist
(2007) (TV production); director: Coky Giedroyc.

The Old Curiosity Shop
(2007) (TV production); director: Brian Percival.