Tag Archives: Charles Dickens

We have all been touched by fictitious persons at numerous points in our lives. They have moved or amused, horrified or inspired us since early childhood. Story-telling is one of the most fundamental of human activities, probably as necessary to our mental health as eating, drinking and breathing are to our physical well-being. Story-telling is almost inconceivable without villains. In …

GRAVE EXPECTATIONS by authors Sherri Browning Erwin and Charles Dickens (Gallery Books; on-sale August 30, 2011; Trade Paperback Original; $15.00), the latest from the ever increasingly popular literary mash-up genre. Great Expectations is a well-read, much beloved classic—so much so, it was chosen by Oprah as her book-club pick this year. Readers of the original will instantly recognize the novel’s …