Charles Dickens Dickens enjoyed reading as a youth. Dickens was the most popular novelist of his time, and remains one of the best-known and most-read of English authors. His works have never gone out of print, and have been adapted continually for the screen since the invention of cinema, with at least 200 motion pictures and TV adaptations based on Dickens's works documented. Many of his works were adapted for the stage during his own lifetime, and as early as 1913, a silent film of "The Pickwick Papers" was made. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded
Peter Weller Burroughs's novel "Naked Lunch" (1991). Aside from a Saturn Award nomination for his "RoboCop" role, Weller received an Academy Award nomination for his 1993 short "Partners," in which he also acted. In television, he hosted the program "Engineering an Empire" on the History Channel from 2005 to 2007. He also played Christopher Henderson in the fifth season of "24", Stan Liddy in the fifth season of the Showtime original series "Dexter", as well as Charles "Charlie" Barosky in 11 episodes in (Season 6) of Kurt Sutter 's long running "Sons of Anarchy". Since 2012, Weller has been involved in the