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Oprah, Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist and Charles Dickens expert Jane Smiley and an audience of book club readers discuss A Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations in this special full-length Oprah's Book Club webcast video. More...

Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist and Charles Dickens expert Jane Smiley shares her lifelong experience of reading and rereading Charles Dickens' novels such as A Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations. More...

Pulitzer Prize-winning author and Charles Dickens expert Jane Smiley and Oprah discuss how Oprah's Book Club author Charles Dickens was the first celebrity. More...

Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist and Charles Dickens expert Jane Smiley introduces Dickens' novel A Tale of Two Cities. More...

Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist and Charles Dickens expert Jane Smiley answers a reader's question about the symbolism of the women in Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities. More...

Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist and Charles Dickens expert Jane Smiley answers a reader's question about Dickens' religious beliefs. More...

Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist and Charles Dickens expert Jane Smiley shares the importance of local dialects in the writings of Charles Dickens, author of A Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations. More...

Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist and Charles Dickens expert Jane Smiley shares the shares the lessons she has learned reading Charles Dickens' novels such as A Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations. More...

Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist and Charles Dickens expert Jane Smiley answers a question from the touring cast of Les Miserable about whether or not Charles Dickens wrote his novels, such as A Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations, as a forc More...

Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist and Charles Dickens expert Jane Smiley answers a reader's question about why Charles Dickens makes Madame Defarge such an unsympathetic character in his novel A Tale of Two Cities. More...

Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist and Charles Dickens expert Jane Smiley answers a reader's question about More...

Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist and Charles Dickens expert Jane Smiley explains why the style, plot and characters in Great Expectations make it the ultimate example of a Dickens novel. More...

Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist and Charles Dickens expert Jane Smiley answers a reader's question about Dickens' personal life and the role it played in writing his novel Great Expectations. More...

Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist and Charles Dickens expert Jane Smiley answers a reader's More...

Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist and Charles Dickens expert Jane Smiley answers a reader's question about author Charles Dickens and the connections to his characters in A Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations. More...

Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist and Charles Dickens expert Jane Smiley discusses her own writing process. More...

Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist and Charles Dickens expert Jane Smiley answers a reader's question about why Dickens changed the original ending of his novel Great Expectations. More...

Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist and Charles Dickens expert Jane Smiley answers a reader's question about what current authors readers might be studying 200 years from now. More...