December 2010
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Travel toughens the mind →
Charles Dickens thought he would love America, but a disastrous visit there left him rattled – and inspired the darkly brilliant Martin Chuzzlewit.
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Travel toughens the mind →
Charles Dickens thought he would love America, but a disastrous visit there left him rattled – and inspired the darkly brilliant Martin Chuzzlewit.
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The many forms of Dickens's Great Expectations →
Written at speed to save a magazine, it’s no surprise Great Expectations has spawned a fistful of adaptations in the 150 years since it was first published
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The many forms of Dickens's Great Expectations →
Written at speed to save a magazine, it’s no surprise Great Expectations has spawned a fistful of adaptations in the 150 years since it was first published
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“It is a sad comment on the English nation, no doubt, that it persists in...”
– Philip Hensher discusses the works of E.F. Benson and the battle between Mapp and Lucia at Penguin Classics UK (via booklover206)
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Quote of the Day: Why You Are Not Reading Charles... →
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Classic novels enjoy renaissance through rise of... →
Classic novels by the likes of Charles Dickens and Jane Austen are enjoying a renaissance because they can be downloaded for free onto electronic readers.
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Classic novels enjoy renaissance through rise of... →
Classic novels by the likes of Charles Dickens and Jane Austen are enjoying a renaissance because they can be downloaded for free onto electronic readers.
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Dr Who, Blackadder and It's a Wonderful Life – all... →
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Dr Who, Blackadder and It's a Wonderful Life – all... →
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This year, as always, I got a few Dickens-related presents for my birthday and Christmas!
Comic book of A Christmas Carol, adapted by Scott McCuller and illustrated by Naresh Kumar (review)
“Oi, Mate, Gimme Some More!”: A Yoof-speak Guide to the Complete Novels of Charles Dickens, innit by Martin Baum (interview with the author)
A Charles Dickens action figure, with “weapons...
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Doctor Who ''A Christmas Carol" Reviews
With spoilers or without spoilers
I DVRed this last night, can’t wait to sit down and watch it!
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“At this festive season of the year… it is more than usually desirable that...”
– A Christmas Carol, stave 1
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“At this festive season of the year… it is more than usually desirable that...”
– A Christmas Carol, stave 1
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Merry Christmas!
If you’d like to read a Christmas story by Dickens, but are sick of Scrooge, check out Some Christmas Stories at Project Gutenberg, including:
A Christmas Tree
What Christmas is as we Grow Older
The Poor Relation’s Story
The Child’s Story
The Schoolboy’s Story
Nobody’s Story
Have a wonderful holiday!
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Merry Christmas!
If you’d like to read a Christmas story by Dickens, but are sick of Scrooge, check out Some Christmas Stories at Project Gutenberg, including:
A Christmas Tree
What Christmas is as we Grow Older
The Poor Relation’s Story
The Child’s Story
The Schoolboy’s Story
Nobody’s Story
Have a wonderful holiday!
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“And I do come home at Christmas. We all do, or we all should. We all come home,...”
– “A Christmas Tree” by Charles Dickens
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“And I do come home at Christmas. We all do, or we all should. We all come home,...”
– “A Christmas Tree” by Charles Dickens
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“There was a frosty rime upon the trees, which, in the faint light of the clouded...”
– The Battle of Life, A Love Story by Charles Dickens
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“There was a frosty rime upon the trees, which, in the faint light of the clouded...”
– The Battle of Life, A Love Story by Charles Dickens
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“There is probably a smell of roasted chestnuts and other good comfortable things...”
– “A Christmas Tree” by Charles Dickens
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“There is probably a smell of roasted chestnuts and other good comfortable things...”
– “A Christmas Tree” by Charles Dickens
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“There are some upon this earth of yours,” returned the Spirit, “who...”
– A Christmas Carol, stave 3
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“There are some upon this earth of yours,” returned the Spirit, “who...”
– A Christmas Carol, stave 3
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“Christmas was close at hand, in all his bluff and hearty honesty; it was the...”
– The Pickwick Papers, chap. 28
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“Christmas was close at hand, in all his bluff and hearty honesty; it was the...”
– The Pickwick Papers, chap. 28
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“I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a...”
– A Christmas Carol, stave 5
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“I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a...”
– A Christmas Carol, stave 5
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A Less Cheerful Dickensian Christmas
If you’re not in the holiday mood today, I give you the beginning of chapter fourteen of Dickens’ The Mystery of Edwin Drood:
CHAPTER XIV - WHEN SHALL THESE THREE MEET AGAIN?
Christmas Eve in Cloisterham. A few strange faces in the streets; a few other faces, half strange and half familiar, once the faces of Cloisterham children, now the faces of men and women who come back from...
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A Less Cheerful Dickensian Christmas
If you’re not in the holiday mood today, I give you the beginning of chapter fourteen of Dickens’ The Mystery of Edwin Drood:
CHAPTER XIV - WHEN SHALL THESE THREE MEET AGAIN?
Christmas Eve in Cloisterham. A few strange faces in the streets; a few other faces, half strange and half familiar, once the faces of Cloisterham children, now the faces of men and women who come back from...
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“Full of that vague kind of penitence which holidays awaken next morning…”
– The Old Curiosity Shop, chap. XL
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“Full of that vague kind of penitence which holidays awaken next morning…”
– The Old Curiosity Shop, chap. XL
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“It is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas when its...”
– A Christmas Carol, stave 3
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“It is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas when its...”
– A Christmas Carol, stave 3
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“Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childish...”
– The Pickwick Papers, chap. 28
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“Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childish...”
– The Pickwick Papers, chap. 28
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Christmas dinner with an excess of trimmings →
From a commentary on the “centrifugal” traditional English Christmas dinner “with all the trimmings”.
In The Pickwick Papers Charles Dickens mentions “a boiled leg of mutton with The Usual Trimmings”. That is among the earliest written instances denoting Trimmings’ migration from the haberdashery to the butchers, from nécessaire to kitchen. Yet the...
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“Time was with most of us, when Christmas Day, encircling all our limited world...”
– “What Christmas is, as we grow older” by Charles Dickens
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“When they were all tired of blind-man’s buff, there was a great game at...”
– The Pickwick Papers, chap. 28
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“Therefore, as we grow older, let us be more thankful that the circle of our...”
– “What Christmas is as we Grow Older” by Charles Dickens
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“Business! Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business; charity,...”
– Jacob Marley’s ghost in A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens (via booklover206)
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The 10 greatest Scrooges in film and TV: Who's... →
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The 10 greatest Scrooges in film and TV: Who's... →
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“Winfrey went Victorian, or “old school,” as she put it, in her...”
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“Winfrey went Victorian, or “old school,” as she put it, in her...”
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Having a Klingon Christmas →
Some images from the only full-length play produced in the language, “A Klingon Christmas Carol”
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Having a Klingon Christmas →
Some images from the only full-length play produced in the language, “A Klingon Christmas Carol”
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Having a very Dickens Christmas →
The director of the Charles Dickens Museum, Dr Florian Schweizer, gives BBC London a guided tour of 48 Doughty Street, the London townhouse where Dickens used to live, and which is now a museum dedicated to the author’s life and work.
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Marvel teases 'Zombie Christmas Carol' →
Tagline: “God help us, every one…”
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Marvel teases 'Zombie Christmas Carol' →
Tagline: “God help us, every one…”
