20 DECEMBER 2008, page 65

The ‘little Christmas Tale’ That Has Everything

Susan Hill reappraises Charles Dickens’s classic S o wrote the Edinburgh critic, Lord Jeffrey — not an easy man to please — to Charles Dickens. Thackeray said: ‘It seems to me a......

In Association With

Morality play Edward Avery V ANITY F AIR by William Thackeray E very year, when winter descends on the country, one of English literature’s great works always finds itself......