Heralded as one of the best—if not the best—novelists of the Victorian era, Charles Dickens longed for fame from an early age. And, after a difficult childhood beset by financial troubles ...

Perhaps the strongest argument for Great Expectations as evidence of Dickens’ potential as a videogame writer are its multiple endings.

Allison Epstein’s “Fagin the Thief” is the latest work to reimagine a famously offensive character from “Oliver Twist” ...