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
Sam Weller (cricketer) Sam Weller (cricketer) Sam David Weller (born 21 November 1994) is an English cricketer who plays first-class cricket for Oxford MCC University. Weller captained the Oxford MCCU side in 2015 and 2016. He is primarily a right-arm fast bowler who also bats right-handed. He has played for Kent County Cricket Club Second XI and was awarded a professional contract with the County in 2014 although he did not make a senior appearance for the First XI. Weller was born in Chislehurst, Kent and he lived in Singapore for three years between the ages of 10 and 13, where he attended