The BBC’s latest adaptation of the Charles Dickens classic, Bleak House, is dark, voluptuous, and superbly cast.Gillian Anderson spearheads a group of talented British actors, some well established, ...
Bleak House, a 377,000-word page turner about family intrigue, wicked lawyers, and grinding legal bureaucracy, will be the focus of the 46th annual Dickens Universe this summer. Published as a ...
This is an online extra to our August 2013 cover story, 25 greatest law novels ever. Everyone knows that among novelists and storytellers, Charles Dickens always does it better. And even when it came ...
Twitter, most people would probably agree, is emblematic of some grand shift in our culture, whether cause or symptom. To the optimists, it's an unprecedented and wonderful tool for creativity, a ...
In the early days of 2024, if you are looking for topical reading, you couldn’t do better than to turn or return to Charles Dickens’s massive, panoramic, blistering, delectable 1852 novel ‘Bleak House ...
Few have been able to walk through Bleak House, which is like walking through the mind of Guillermo Del Toro himself. Located in California’s San Fernando Valley, the filmmaker’s personal sanctuary is ...
In the middle of Bleak House, the heroine, an orphan named Esther Summerson, gets smallpox and goes blind. The first time I read the novel I was so shocked and upset by this turn of events that I ...
SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP) — Guillermo del Toro is an acclaimed master of horror and has built a huge memorabilia collection throughout his decades-long career. A close brush with California's ...
Guillermo del Toro is more than just a 21 st Century horror master of the highest caliber (responsible for modern classics like Pan’s Labyrinth and The Shape of Water), he’s a collector who’s amassed ...
The Oscar-winning filmmaker said he toured his Los Angeles creative man cave Friday and rescued hundreds of objects from his private collection of curiosities and ghoulish props. By Etan Vlessing ...
In the past few weeks I’ve had numerous conversations with people, some of whom haven’t looked at Masterpiece Theatre in years, who suddenly found themselves hooked on this British-made Charles ...