1. The Secret Museum: The treasures too fragile or too precious to go on display →

    NYPL is featured in a new book by Molly Oldfield called The Secret Museum, which highlights fascinating some fascinating objects located in “museums” around the world… including Charles Dickens very intriguing letter opener, which is in NYPL’s Berg Collection. Read all about it!

    Writer Molly Oldfield has delved into the vast collections of objects stored away and rarely exhibited

  2. Looking for a fun holiday activity to do this weekend? Enjoy Everyone’s Carol production of ‘A Christmas Carol; A Ghost Story of Christmas’ this weekend! Don’t miss the chance to meet NYPL curator of Charles Dickens: The Key to Character, William Moeck. 

    Looking for a fun holiday activity to do this weekend? Enjoy Everyone’s Carol production of ‘A Christmas Carol; A Ghost Story of Christmas’ this weekend! Don’t miss the chance to meet NYPL curator of Charles Dickens: The Key to Character, William Moeck. 

  3. Publishers Weekly has selected their top 10 favorite books by Charles Dickens.  (We’ll give you a hint and tell you that they selected Our Mutual Friend for the #2 spot). We’re not as brave as our literary colleagues though, and have decided it’s just too difficult to pick favorites. Instead, we’re going to share one of our favorite illustrations of the master writer - a very inclusive image, if we do say so ourselves:  J.R. Brown’s “Dickens Surrounded by his Characters.” This illustration, along with many other interesting items that chronicle Dickens’ life and work, are currently on display at the Library’s exhibition, Charles Dickens: The Key to Character. 

    Publishers Weekly has selected their top 10 favorite books by Charles Dickens.  (We’ll give you a hint and tell you that they selected Our Mutual Friend for the #2 spot). We’re not as brave as our literary colleagues though, and have decided it’s just too difficult to pick favorites.

    Instead, we’re going to share one of our favorite illustrations of the master writer - a very inclusive image, if we do say so ourselves:  J.R. Brown’s “Dickens Surrounded by his Characters.” This illustration, along with many other interesting items that chronicle Dickens’ life and work, are currently on display at the Library’s exhibition, Charles Dickens: The Key to Character. 

  4. Check Out Charles Dickens’ Library of Fake Books →

    At the Library’s newest exhibition, Charles Dickens: The Key to Character

  5. “It was the best of times. It was the worst of times…” 

    What would Charles Dickens think about turning 200 today? Well, everyone here at NYPL wishes him (and all his faithful fans) a most wonderful bicentennial! Why don’t you stop by the Stephen A. Schwarzman building and catch a last look at Mr. Dickens’ letter opener (fashioned from his cat’s paw) and his very own reading copy of David Copperfield? They will be on exhibit until March 4, don’t miss out!