October 2011
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“Charles Dickens”: The secret life of a literary... →
Charles Dickens was the Victorian era’s most beloved writer, but even he couldn’t live up to its unforgiving morals
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Dickens and Horror →
Don’t let muppetry, or the sentimental productions whipped out at Christmastime mislead you. Charles Dickens is an author who loves to shake his readers up. His is a different, quietly unnerving kind of horror.
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Return to Fantasy with Uriah Heep →
They took their name from a character in a Charles Dickens novel, but their music couldn’t be further from the Victorian period.
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Horrible histories: Has revisionism gone too far? →
One commonplace strategy is to attempt to glorify one figure at the expense of another. […] The drive behind The Invisible Woman, the film about the relationship between Charles Dickens and actress Nelly Ternan, which Ralph Fiennes is due to direct, is to expose Dickens’s hypocrisy and to rescue Ternan from the anonymity in which she has been allowed to slip. As Claire Tomalin’s...
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Snapshots of 'Boz' →
How the novelist’s books explored his life’s unpursued paths
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Judge turns to Dickens' Bleak House to solve... →
A judge turned to the writing of Charles Dickens to help resolve a legal dispute over land in Shenley.
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“I don’t find my life that interesting,” he said, sinking slightly...”
– Stephen Sondheim
“Stephen Sondheim: In his own words, on his own words”, Chicago Tribune, 28 October 2011
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A Profession Lands a Starring Role in Literature... →
‘NICHOLAS NICKLEBY’ BY CHARLES DICKENS(1839) Dramatists raced to stage this novel even before Dickens had published all the installments. It is unlikely those scripts contained anything to equal Dickens’s delicious satire of the petty rivalries, pettier jealousies and occasional triumphs among the illustrious Crummles theater troupe, with whom Nicholas and Smike perform.
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Book Review: Jacob T. Marley by R. William Bennett →
Jacob T. Marley by R. William Bennet is a fictional book which follows the life and afterlife of its title character. Many people will recognize Marley’s name from Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol.
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Charles Dickens: Life and Legacy in new display at... →
LONDON.- The bicentenary of the birth of the legendary nineteenth-century writer, Charles Dickens is celebrated in a new display at the National Portrait Gallery. Portraits of the author, his family and influential contemporaries chart the progress of his life and examine the enduring legacy of the characters he created.
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Q&A: Playwright David Edgar →
An interview with the man who adapted Nicholas Nickleby as an epic, eight-hour stage play
It’s a little bit like the theory about translations, that translations should be a pane of glass in which we try to get as close as possible to how it was written. And I was arguing it shouldn’t be like that, that the adaptation should be as visible as the original work. The adaptation should be present,...
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The who's who of Victorian England pasted on to a... →
Images of Wellington, Napoleon, Nelson, Mozart and George Washington among the 800 pictures
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“My father’s family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant...”
– Great Expectations by Charles Dickens (via famousfirstsentences)
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Two-Sided Man Gets Two New Biographies →
The scholar Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, author of “Becoming Dickens,” has argued that trying to pin down that novelist “is like putting your thumb on a blob of mercury”…
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World Book Night: the great giveaway →
The list of books people plan to share includes Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities
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Screen decorated by Charles Dickens with 800... →
It dates back to 1850, when Dickens and his actor friend William Macready wanted to make something to educate Macready’s children.
They spent hours leafing through magazines to find famous faces before sticking them to a wood and canvas frame.
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“It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is...”
– Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol (via littlelovered)
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Portsmouth heals anti-Charles Dickens book rift →
The city where novelist Charles Dickens was born has decided to heal an 80-year rift with an author who criticised its famous son.
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“…he had remembered that there were two classes of charitable people; one, the...”
– Charles Dickens in Bleak House (via astrangerhere)
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80 Year Old Dickens Rift is Lifted as Banned Book... →
Portsmouth is a proud city, and loyal to its residents, so when author Carl Roberts spoke less than favourably about Charles Dickens in “This Side Idolatry”, the library promptly pulled it from bookshelves.
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The Kent that Charles Dickens knew, 150 years on... →
… the locations in Kent, Charles Dickens’s home territory, that bring one of his best-loved books vividly to life.
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Tempting: Penguin Classics Charles Dickens... →
It’s Charles Dickens’s 200th anniversary in 2012, and what better way to start the celebrations than by reading all of his novels? (Well, you could argue that a cake might be enough, but at Penguin we don’t like to do things the easy way). That’s why some of us have set ourselves the Herculean task of reading all sixteen novels, one a month, from The Pickwick Papers to The Mystery of Edwin...
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Art Review: Charles Dickens at 200, The Morgan... →
Contains fantastic images from the exhibit!
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“There exists a famous student drinking game based on the film Withnail and I...”
– Penguin Classics on The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens (via booklover206)
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Callow: There is a basic compassion that lies at... →
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Did ruthless Charles Dickens drive a man to... →
More than 170 years on, the tale that sealed both their fates is to be auctioned off as part of a comprehensive collection of Victorian serialised novels – one of only two to exist in the world
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“In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too...”
– Charles Dickens, Great Expectations (via deus-volent)
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Jamie Bell: the eternal orphan →
Billy Elliot turned him into a ‘brat’. But playing Tintin, in Steven Spielberg’s eye-popping new film, has made Jamie Bell realise what he really is – a lost child.
Bell mentions his role as Smike in Nicholas Nickleby also fits into this description — “dead parents, brutalised and given away.”
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