The complete online text of The Chimes by Charles Dickens.

The life story of Charles Dickens is, from several perspectives, a success story. Generally regarded today as one of the greatest novelists in the English language, Dickens had the unusual good fortune to have been recognized by his contemporaries as wel...

The life story of Charles Dickens is, from several perspectives, a success story. Generally regarded today as one of the greatest novelists in the English language, Dickens had the unusual good fortune to have been recognized by his contemporaries as wel...

From the appearance of his first full-length work of prose fiction, The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, in 1836-1837, Charles Dickens has retained his place as one of the best-loved and most widely read novelists in the world. Not so well known i...

It has chimed through freezing winters, fierce storms and World War II bombing raids. But old age will silence Big Ben's bongs _ at least temporarily.The famed bell that sounds the hour at Britain's Houses of Parliament is to fall silent during scheduled repairs for...

Sunday, July 29, 2007 in Brooklyn — The ruins of abandoned McCarren Park Pool should have been packed for TV on the Radio, one of the biggest names on its free, Sunday afternoon indie rock concert series. But a chilly, dismal drizzle kept the Olympic-sized...

Femme Fatale, modeling for Gucci or wearing barely more than wings in a Victoria’s Secret fashion show. Her cheekbones and light eye color are reminiscent of a young Michelle Pfieffer, but she also has the raw, animal, almost masculine sexuality of a Angelina Jolie. Clad...

Thousands of Virginia Tech students and faculty filled the center of campus Monday to pay solemn tribute to the victims of last week's massacre _ pausing for moments of silence on the day classes resumed a week after a student gunman killed 32 people.Mourners met...