Cuarón's next feature was also a literary adaptation, a modernized version of Charles Dickens's Great Expectations starring Ethan Hawke, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Robert De Niro.

Another subcategory is wellerisms, named after Sam Weller from Charles Dickens's The Pickwick Papers ( 1837 ).

In Charles Dickens's Pickwick Papers ( 1836 / 7 ), the servant Sam Weller says that a pieman used cats " for beefsteak, veal and kidney, ' cording to the demand ", and recommends that people should buy pies only " when you know the lady as made it, and is quite sure it ain't kitten.

Gilliam also attempted to direct a version of Charles Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities, which collapsed due to disagreements over its budget and choice of lead actor.

* In Charles Dickens's novel " The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit " the character of Augustus leaves a note addressed to his betrothed to the effect that he has sailed away to Van Diemen's Land, " Ere this reaches you, the undersigned will be -- if not a corpse -- on the way to Van Dieman's Land ".

** David Lean's Oliver Twist, based on Charles Dickens's famous novel, premieres in the UK.

* February – Charles Dickens's Oliver Twist begins publication in serial form in London.

* December 24 – Actor Lionel Barrymore begins what will become an annual tradition of the Golden Age of Radio – playing the role of Ebenezer Scrooge in dramatizations of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol.

It appears in Charles Dickens's 1861 novel Great Expectations, as the only card game Pip, the book's protagonist, as a child seems to know how to play.

uses chunks of dialogue from Charles Dickens's novel Oliver Twist, although it bills itself as a " free adaptation " of the novel.

However in Nel's opinion Rowling's humour is more based on caricature and the names she invents are more like those found in Charles Dickens's stories, and Amanda Cockrell noted that many of these express their owners ' traits through allusions that run from ancient Roman mythology to eighteenth century German literature.

He made several other spoken-word recordings, one of his most famous being his one-man album of Charles Dickens's Mr. Pickwick's Christmas, a twenty-minute version of the Christmas chapter from Dickens's The Pickwick Papers.

When word of Charles Dickens's death reached Bret Harte in July 1870, he immediately sent a dispatch across the bay to San Francisco to hold back the forthcoming publication of his Overland Monthly for twenty-four hours, so that he could compose the poetic tribute, " Dickens in Camp ".

Charles Dickens's Barnaby Rudge is set amid the Gordon Riots, and A Tale of Two Cities in the French Revolution.

Riis was influenced by his father, whose school Riis delighted in disrupting, and who persuaded him to read ( and improve his English via ) Charles Dickens's magazine All the Year Round and the novels of James Fenimore Cooper.

* Sir Leicester Dedlock, Charles Dickens's Bleak House

* Charles Dickens's Barnaby Rudge describes the riots in detail.

It was immortalised by Charles Dickens's novel Oliver Twist, in which the principal villain Bill Sikes meets a nasty end in the mud of ' Folly Ditch ' an area which was known as Hickmans Folly — the scene of an attack by Spring Heeled Jack in 1845 — surrounding Jacob's Island.

In Charles Dickens's Oliver Twist, Clerkenwell Green is where Fagin and the Artful Dodger induct Oliver into pickpocketing amongst shoppers in the busy market once held there.

Charles Dickens, Jr ( eldest child of Charles Dickens ), in his 1879 book Dickens's Dictionary of London, described the Pavilion this way: " A large East-end theatre capable of holding considerably over 3, 000 persons.

The film has also been compared to Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol in that the protagonist is a greedy man who cares little about anyone except himself and then has his life outlook completely changed after a series of real-life " what if?

American Decca also released several notable spoken word albums, such as a recording of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol starring Ronald Colman as Scrooge, and a recording of the Christmas chapter from The Pickwick Papers read by Charles Laughton.

Charles reads the audiobook editions of the Red Dwarf novel Last Human, and his book The Log: A Dwarfer's Guide to Everything, and he regularly attends sci-fi, comedy and memorabilia conventions in connection with the Red Dwarf franchise.

One of his ancestors is John Elwes, who is believed to be the inspiration for Ebenezer Scrooge in Charles Dickens ' A Christmas Carol ( 1843 ) ( Elwes played five roles in the 2009 film adaptation of the novel ).

Another early example of a whodunit is a subplot in the novel Bleak House ( 1853 ) by Charles Dickens.

Although The Moonstone is usually seen as the first detective novel, a number of critics suggest that the lesser known Notting Hill Mystery ( 1862 – 63 ), written by the pseudonymous " Charles Felix ", preceded it by a number of years and first used techniques that would come to define the genre.

In 1952, William Buckler identified the author of the novel as Charles Warren Adams and in 2011 American investigator Paul Collins found a number of lines of evidence that confirmed Buckler's initial claim.

The grail is central in many modern Arthurian works, including Charles Williams's novel War in Heaven and his two collections of poems about Taliessin, Taliessin Through Logres and Region of the Summer Stars, and in feminist author Rosalind Miles ' Child of the Holy Grail.

* Charles Dickens ' novel, Great Expectations ( first published in serial form in the publication All the Year Round from 1 December 1860 to August 1861 ), contains a reference in chapter 48 to a couple having been married " over the broomstick.

* Monks ( Oliver Twist ), a character in the novel Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

A Memex is featured in Charles Stross ' cross-genre novel The Atrocity Archives, and its sequels.

* Nemo, a minor character from the Charles Dickens novel Bleak House ( 1852 )

* Charles Frazier's novel Cold Mountain ( 1997 ) borrows much from the Odyssey to tell the story of an American Civil War veteran's homecoming.

* The Old Curiosity Shop, an 1841 novel by Charles Dickens, features the Punch and Judy performing partners Mr. Codlin and Short Trotters.

* In Charles Bukowski's 1978 novel Women, the main character, Henry Chinaski, vomits on Peter Stuyvesant's burial vault cover before a poetry reading at St. Mark's Church.

The term retcon is used several times in the 2010 novel, How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe, by American writer Charles Yu.

In the US, the new novels Moscow Club ( 1991 ) by Joseph Finder, Masquerade ( 1996 ) by Gayle Lynds, and The Unlikely Spy ( 1996 ) by Daniel Silva, and in the UK, A Spy By Nature ( 2001 ) by Charles Cumming and Remembrance Day ( 2000 ) by Henry Porter, maintained the spy novel in the post – Cold War world.

A pair of SF novels by Gene DeWeese and Robert " Buck " Coulson, Now You See It / Him / Them and Charles Fort Never Mentioned Wombats are set at Worldcons ; the latter includes an in-character " introduction " by Wilson Tucker ( himself a character in the novel ) which is a sly self-parody verging on a self-tuckerization.

* Spin ( novel ), a 2005 novel by Robert Charles Wilson

Willkie was also featured as a character in Philip Roth's counterfactual history novel, The Plot Against America, in which Willkie opposes Charles Lindbergh in the 1940 presidential election.

** David Lean's Great Expectations, based on the Charles Dickens novel, and featuring John Mills, Valerie Hobson, Martita Hunt, Alec Guinness, Francis L. Sullivan, Jean Simmons, and Finlay Currie, is released to great acclaim in the UK.

* January 3 – Charles Dickens commences writing the novel Hard Times.

* Charles Dickens publishes his first novel The Pickwick Papers followed by Oliver Twist and Nicholas Nickleby

* probable – Charles de Batz-Castelmore d ' Artagnan, French count and musketeer, on which the fictional D ' Artagnan from the novel The Three Musketeers is based ( d. 1673 )