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Great Expectations has divided fans but they agree on this!

There have been at least 18 prominent adaptations of Great Expectations since the invention of the moving image, said Nick Hilton in The Independent. “That’s Pip upon Pip, Magwitch upon Magwitch, Miss Havisham upon Miss Havisham.” Now, “for no discernible reason”, the BBC is treating its viewers to a new…

‘I can’t think of an adaptation I’ve hated more’

A brooding hero, a kidnapped heroine and lusty couplings in a swashbuckling yarn that plays knowingly with the romantic genre

With at least 28 adaptations of the classic novel since 1917, we compile a list of the best and the worst for you

Camilla appeared to wade into a 'censorship' row over changes made to classic author Roald Dahl's books and urged authors to resist curbs on their freedom of expression

It was a tale of two cities and two speeches — Joe Biden in Warsaw, Vladimir Putin in Moscow. To borrow Dickens’ famous opening line, the worst of times was represented by the Russian leader’s wall-to- wall paranoia. The best, perhaps, was the American’s exhortations to back democracy and the…

Why are they taking it to the streets in Paris and London? This 21st century tale of two cities is not about revolution like in the Dickens classic, but about saving Europe's beloved welfare state. In France, unions say millions turned out on Tuesday for round two of the biggest…

Ex-Prime Minister Boris Johnson visited Bucha and Borodyanka to the north of Kyiv on Sunday morning, the scenes of some of the worst atrocities committed by Russian forces during the war