And a new biography of Dickens is getting prominent reviews, including front-page billing in The Washington Post Book World. But what’s been missing from the articles I’ve read about these works is ...

Oliver Twist: A "Masterpiece" presentation. Based on the novel by Charles Dickens. Starring William Miller, Timothy Spall, Tom Hardy and Sophie Okonedo. Directed by Coky Giedroyc. Adapted by Sarah ...

A two-part, three-hour, miniseries production of the Charles Dickens classic "Oliver Twist" that appeared on PBS's "Masterpiece Classic" on Feb. 15 and 22 produced some sharply critical comments from ...

Charles Dickens Oliver Twist: Melodrama. Adapted from the novel and directed by Neil Bartlett. (Through June 24. Berkeley Repertory s Roda Theatre, 2015 Addison St., Berkeley. Two hours, 20 minutes.

Oliver Twist may have wanted more, but university academics think the Charles Dickens classic is too much for some students. The novel has become the latest recipient of a 'trigger warning' amid fears ...

The Yorkshire poet, critic and scholar William Empson once offered his theory that (in literature and on the stage) the ...

Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter When Oliver Twist was serialised in 1837 it was a sensational success. And the crafty old Jew who runs a school for child thieves was ...

The young woman at the workhouse gate was desperate. Clutching her belly, she begged to be allowed inside. She had nowhere else to go. The workhouse — for all the stories of cruelty that went on ...

Without his name on the credits, it would be difficult to identify the latest version of “Oliver Twist” as the work of Roman Polanski. Conventional, straightforward and very much within what used to ...

When 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist dares to ask his cruel taskmaster, Mr. Bumble, for a second serving of gruel, he's hired out as an apprentice. Escaping that dismal fate, young Oliver falls in with ...