Ghosts keep spirit of Dickens alive

Exhibition focuses on literary great's supernatural leanings, Julian Shea reports in London.

English writer Charles Dickens created some of the most famous fictional figures in world literature, such as Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, Miss Havisham and Ebeneezer Scrooge, and more than 150 years after his death in 1870, his work remains as popular as ever.

Never out of print and translated into countless languages, Dickens' work still captivates readers around the world, including in China.

An article in the September 1999 edition of the scholarly publication Dickens Quarterly mentions that the first translations of his novels appeared in China in the 1900s. Just over a century later, in 2012, Zhejiang Gongshang University Press produced the first translation of Dickens' complete works — novels, short stories, essays and all.