Uriah Heep - from David Copperfield, is one of Charles Dickens's most malevolent creations and is the eighth in the Telegraph pick of the best Charles Dickens characters.

Satirist, director and the creator of Veep, Armando Iannucci does Charles Dickens in The Personal History Of David Copperfield. And NPR's critic says there's a lot that's unexpected in the movie.

Australian characters in Dickens’ books. Wackford Squeers, the brutal headmaster of Dotheboys Hall, gets his comeuppance in Nicholas Nickleby (1839) when he’s transported to New South Wales. A decade ...