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Reading Dickens as a Habit
Yo, Chuck. It is my goal to read Dickens every year. I’ve done it for the last six years in a row. Here’s the list: 2010 – “A Tale of Two Cities” 2009 – “The Old Curiosity Shop” 2008 – “Our Mutual...
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10 Great Minor Characters in Dickens
Fagin Novel: Oliver Twist Year: 1838 Description: “As he glided stealthily along, creeping beneath the shelter of the walls and doorways, the hideous old man seemed like some loathsome reptile,...
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Artful Interview: Dickens at 200
This month – February 8 specifically – beloved novelist and writer Charles Dickens would have celebrated his 200th birthday – if he had not, you know, died back in 1870. In honor of that distinction,...
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Gentlemen & Drinking Establishments
From Charles Dickens’s “Great Expectations”: “‘Yet a gentleman may not keep a public-house; may he?” said I. ‘Not on any account,’ returned Herbert; ‘but a public-house many keep a gentleman.'” Whew!
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6 Books I’ve Read 3 Times
I don’t often read books more than once. There is only so much time, after all, and so many damn good books. So why keep going back to the same well? That said I am guilty of reading six books three...
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Dickens vs. “Entrepreneurs”
From Charles Dickens’ “Hard Times”: “This, again, was among the fictions of Coketown. Any capitalist there, who had made sixty thousand pounds out of sixpence, always professed to wonder why the sixty...
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