IF THE ADAGE is true that there are no small parts, only small actors, then I can't help feeling that, in adapting Charles Dickens' "The Old Curiosity Shop" into a four-hour miniseries, The Disney ...

Loss and grief and mourning define the human condition. And here too, Charles Dickens has something to offer in The Old Curiosity Shop that remains wisdom and a kind of comfort even to modern readers.

The Old Curiosity Shop. LONDON -- Far from chestnuts roasting and choristers singing, Charles Dickens' "The Old Curiosity Shop" is a curiously bleak tale for Christmas.

As admirable and ambitious as the folks at PBS Masterpiece are -- four tales of Charles Dickens in three months! -- it seemed inevitable they would run out of steam. (Eight hours of “Little ...

The 1934 adaptation of Charles Dickens's The Old Curiosity Shop stays faithful to the spirit of the original, finds Sameer Rahim. By Sameer Rahim 15 May 2012 • 2:56pm .

To celebrate the bicentenary or 200th anniversary of Victorian era writer, Charles Dickens, take a walk through the lanes and pubs of London to see the city through his eyes.