| 单词 | Charles Dickens |
| 例句 | The poor suffered in the squalor that Charles Dickens was capturing so well in his serialized novels. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z “This dude is reading Charles Dickens...for pleasure.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z He’s brought with him to the hospital books on drawing perspective and a few novels by Charles Dickens, including The Mystery of Edwin Drood, which Dickens had left unfinished when he died twelve years earlier. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z He does nothing but read all day—Charles Dickens’s novels. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z When Jim Don Cooper whined that he just couldn’t get excited over literature, Mr. Loring brought in the varsity cheerleaders and had them lead exuberant cheers for Charles Dickens, William Faulkner, and J. D. Salinger. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Now she was roosting comfortably in the stern, nibbling bits of jerky and reciting random lines from Charles Dickens and 50 Tricks to Teach Your Dog. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z He loved ocean currents and architecture and Charles Dickens, and his variousness made her feel limited, overspecialized. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z I was the only kid, white or Indian, who knew that Charles Dickens wrote A Tale of Two Cities. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z A boy dressed like a poor orphan in one of Charles Dickens’s novels, carrying the letter “E.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z Jule was looking at the wax model of Charles Dickens, who sat morosely in a hard wooden chair, when someone spoke to her. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Many people gobbled it up, much as they were gobbling up the novels of Charles Dickens. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z What she heard on her radio was definitely not the Charles Dickens story. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z The only famous authors he could think of were Charles Dickens, William Shakespeare, and Mark Twain. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z The novelist Charles Dickens felt Malthus depicted poor people as less than human; in novels such as Oliver Twist, he sought to remedy that, making poor people well-rounded main characters. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z I’ve read a Raymond Chandler, and right now I’m halfway through Hard Times, by Charles Dickens. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Anyway, they fell in love right away, on account of they're both so nuts about Charles Dickens and all, and he helps her run her publishing business. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z There is a bookcase full of first editions of Jane Austen and Charles Dickens, which gets raided by “American burglars,” as he calls his novel-purloining friends. Tom Stoppard Finally Looks Into His Shadow 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z The Q brothers are now working on a hip-hop version of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" and plan to eventually create hip-hop translations of all of Shakespeare's works, including "A Mad-Summer Night's Dream." Hip-hop 'Othello' resonates behind bars 2013-08-30T13:57:05Z At its best, "Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Christmas Carol" stylishly conflates A. Conan Doyle's iconic detective with the Charles Dickens chestnut. Review: Holmes lore wrapped up neatly in Taproot production 2010-12-02T21:36:00Z Last year marked the 200th anniversary of Charles Dickens' birth, so it's interesting to take a look at PLR's list of the most borrowed novels by the famous author. Library lending figures: what books are most popular? 2013-02-08T09:00:00Z Charles Dickens was a magazine editor, investigative journalist and publisher. Calling all Dickens detectives 2011-08-04T09:44:41Z Born in Springfield, Mass., to German parents, Geisel read voraciously in his youth, claiming he read Jonathan Swift and Charles Dickens at 6 years old. Review | A portrait of Dr. Seuss offers a look at the prankster workaholic behind the iconic characters 2019-05-10T04:00:00Z Iris befriends an adorable little pickpocket straight from the imagination of Charles Dickens — and there’s Dickens himself, railing in the newspaper against the Pre-Raphaelites. Review | ‘The Doll Factory’ is a guilty pleasure wrapped around a provocative history lesson 2019-08-05T04:00:00Z Charles Dickens may have died in 1870, but legions of fans around the world unite next Tuesday and beyond to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the birth of a titan of English fiction. Royal party and read-a-thon mark big day for Dickens 2012-02-03T15:10:56Z It’s a heady stew of gothic revenge tale and colonial critique that draws on everything from Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins to H Rider Haggard and Joseph Conrad. Naysayers be damned! Tom Hardy's Taboo is a work of Wicker Man genius 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z He’s more at home with the artists William Hogarth, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and Thomas Rowlandson, or with writers like Charles Dickens and G. K. Chesterton. Books of The Times: Laughing Matters: Discuss 2010-12-07T23:00:00Z This week: what does The Wire have in common with Charles Dickens? The Wire re-up: season five, episode eight ? the Dickensian aspects 2010-04-05T23:15:00Z He cites Charles Dickens as inspiration for his intertwined shows, explaining how his approach compares to that of the British novelist. New breed ‘Law & Order’ brings back NYPD detective Stabler 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z One is the outcome of the suspenseful tale woven by Charles Dickens, which lay unfinished in a novel he couldn’t complete before his death. Theater On Broadway and Off, post-Sandy 2012-12-07T00:27:00Z Novels heavier on plot — works by Charles Dickens, for example — lend themselves more easily to adaptation, Mr. Berg noted. Amazon Tackles Hollywood’s F. Scott Fitzgerald Obsession 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z But it is here, near the Thames estuary, that Charles Dickens’s 1861 novel “Great Expectations” opens: “Ours was the marsh country, down by the river, within, as the river wound, twenty miles of the sea.” Pip and Me: A Journey Into the World of ‘Great Expectations’ 2018-11-06T05:00:00Z But if Dickens World seems to violate certain unspoken treaties about the commercial exploitation of literature, it’s worth remembering that Charles Dickens did so as well. Voyages: The World of Charles Dickens, Complete With Pizza Hut 2012-02-07T19:16:01Z The British Library is advertising "A Hankering after Ghosts: Charles Dickens and the Supernatural" which opens on November 29, while on December 9 the Museum of London opens "Dickens and London." Tale of many cities as Dickens anniversary nears 2011-11-17T17:50:32Z Charles Dickens owned a toothpick inlaid with ivory and engraved with his initials; it retracted into its own handle like a tiny spyglass. Design: Who Made That Dental Floss? 2012-10-21T07:47:04Z Charles Dickens looked at the plight of English orphan boys in "Oliver Twist." Author's "Gray Zone" sheds light on dark subject 2011-07-27T16:57:44Z Rodent murder doesn’t generally figure into adaptations of Charles Dickens’s perennial Christmas favorite. A New ‘Christmas Carol’ Explores the Roots of Scrooge’s Scorn 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z But apparently no one told Leno that novel was written by Charles Dickens. Jay Leno to win nation’s top humor prize in DC 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z The building once attracted more visitors than Independence Hall, even as its practices drew critics including Charles Dickens, who called the prison a place of “torture and agony.” A Former Prison Breaks From the System That Built It 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z There is on display a remarkable seating plan that Charles Dickens drew up for his own wedding in which each guest is characterized by a Shakespearean quotation; Dickens could presume such familiarity. Critic?s Notebook: ?Making History? and ?Remembering Shakespeare? at Yale 2012-03-22T22:50:43Z He leans heavily on Charles Dickens’s and Henry James’s analyses of the American character. Books of The Times: In ‘Across the Pond,’ Terry Eagleton Explains the U.S. 2013-07-11T19:40:24Z In other words, he behaved like many men who have fallen out of love with their wives, except that he was Charles Dickens and everything in his behaviour was proportionately magnified. The Great Charles Dickens Scandal by Michael Slater - review 2012-11-23T22:55:02Z She channels 21 characters in a one-person show of Charles Dickens’s “Great Expectations.” For Eddie Izzard, a ‘99’ Ice Cream and a Waterloo Sunset Are Wondrous Things 2021-03-23T04:00:00Z Among them were works about historical figures like the poet Lord Byron and adaptations of stories like Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol." Playwright Romulus Linney dies at 80 2011-01-16T15:50:08Z Raised on Charles Dickens, he later added Karl Marx to his reading, organized labor rallies and got decked by a billy-club-wielding cop. 2010-01-29T05:49:00Z The “Tale of Two Kitties” in the title reflects a famous novel for grown-ups, “A Tale of Two Cities,” by Charles Dickens. ‘Captain Underpants’ author creates another tale about Dog Man 2017-08-29T04:00:00Z The United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing were dubbed Shakers by disdainful contemporaries because of their ecstatic, shuddering worship dances — "a preposterous sort of trot," snorted Charles Dickens. A clear channel to the Shaker past: Woosters' 'Early Shaker Spirituals' 2015-01-17T05:00:00Z London Mayor Boris Johnson even visited New York to promote the city where Disney's new 3-D animated version of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol is spectacularly set. 2009-12-03T18:01:00Z The winner for the holidays is Pantone 10119, gold, containing Charles Dickens’ classic “A Christmas Carol,” with other stories and illustrations. Cocktails, crafts, rap, Bob Ross, yoga and cats: Great stocking stuffer books 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z That night, instead of tuning in to an episode of “Wild Kingdom,” Mr. Mays’s father reached for a book from the shelf, a yellowed volume of Charles Dickens stories and read the tale aloud. Why Just Play Scrooge When You Can Play Everyone? 2018-10-29T04:00:00Z Every page of the magazine has the name Charles Dickens at the top, but it will never have your name, because the articles themselves are anonymous. Imagined Meetings With Joyce, Dickens, Hardy, and Lawrence 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z In the statement announcing the prize, Librarian of Congress James H. Billington said, “E. L. Doctorow is our very own Charles Dickens, summoning a distinctly American place and time, channeling our myriad voices.” ArtsBeat: E. L. Doctorow Wins Library of Congress Award 2014-04-16T17:15:14Z A signed copy of Charles Dickens' novel A Tale of Two Cities bearing a personal inscription to fellow author George Eliot has gone on sale for £275,000. Signed Dickens book up for £275,000 2014-08-19T04:00:00Z I just kept trying to imagine the actual human Charles Dickens walking across this lawn. Voyages: The World of Charles Dickens, Complete With Pizza Hut 2012-02-07T19:16:01Z You can almost hear Tiny Tim blessing these people, every one! — and, on cue, Furlong recalls receiving an old copy of Charles Dickens’s “A Christmas Carol.” Review | ‘Small Things Like These’ reads like a Christmas classic 2021-12-07T05:00:00Z Ignatow adds that "The Popularity Papers" series name is a riff on the title of Charles Dickens' classic novel, "The Pickwick Papers." 'Popularity' sequel: Amy Ignatow's girls giggle on 2011-03-05T02:20:27Z Lewis, Georgette Heyer, Jane Austen, George Eliot, Charles Dickens — and discussed at the dinner table, in the car, on walks. In Praise of Iris Murdoch 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z While selection is random, the genres range from crime to romance and children’s fiction, including works by Virginia Woolf, Lewis Carroll and Charles Dickens. UK's first short-story dispensers to be installed in London's... 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z ‘That Poor Dream’ All aboard this expressive, uneven show, which resets Charles Dickens’s “Great Expectations” on a Metro-North train. Theater Listings for Oct. 17-23 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z On view through Feb. 12 is “Charles Dickens at 200,” a display of his letters, stories, photographs and other items; on Sunday a tour of the display will be given at 2 p.m. Spare Times for Dec. 16-22 2011-12-15T22:21:40Z The instalments were much shorter than a 19th-century novel instalment, making the story more bitty than the works of Charles Dickens and his contemporaries. Did Cliff Richard ever do a Johnny Cash at Strangeways? 2013-02-13T15:20:01Z Come back tomorrow for our look at Charles Dickens’ fourth best novel. Counting Down Dickens' Greatest Novels. Number 5: Our Mutual Friend 2012-02-01T19:54:28Z Fagin, the leader of the band of child thieves in Charles Dickens’ “Oliver Twist,” is unforgettably comic, creepy and villainous. The Short List: 3 gangsters we love 2013-08-14T23:08:24Z The novelist, poet, essayist and literary critic will join the likes of Geoffrey Chaucer, William Shakespeare, Charles Dickens and Thomas Hardy who are either buried or commemorated in the famous location. Narnia author Lewis to be honored at Poets' Corner 2012-11-22T15:36:55Z Taken sometime in the mid-19th century, the photo is contained in an album with 43 other pictures, including portraits of abolitionist Charles Sumner and author Charles Dickens. A rare photo of Harriet Tubman, acquired by the Library of Congress, shows her as a younger woman 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z "If Charles Dickens was black and a woman." At ABC, Thursday night is prime Shonda Rhimes time 2014-05-14T04:00:00Z Not a game, but a tiny library, "100 Classic Books" gathers together digital versions of works by Jane Austen, Jules Verne, Charles Dickens, William Shakespeare and many others. Tuck a library of classic books into a Nintendo DS 2010-07-07T02:14:00Z And even today, the tradition haunts us in what remains the season’s most popular holiday tale: “A Christmas Carol,” written by Charles Dickens in 1843. Review | Christmas comes early in Jon Clinch’s ‘Marley,’ a clever riff on ‘A Christmas Carol’ 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z And Claire Tomalin, whose acclaimed biographies have told the stories of Jane Austen, Charles Dickens and other literary giants, gets around to sharing her own accomplished and incident-filled life in a new memoir. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z German design house Talbot Runhof visited the world of Charles Dickens' Miss Havisham on Wednesday, in a Paris ready-to-wear show that channeled green foliage - a nice touch for fall. Big-budget 'au revoir' ends Paris fashion week 2012-03-07T21:31:10Z At first blush this sounds like a terrible idea; the schmaltz of Charles Dickens would seem a poor fit for Gotham City. Comics: 'Batman: Noel' a dream for Christmas present 2011-11-11T20:50:04Z So, it seems, did Charles Dickens, Lewis Carroll, Virginia Woolf and now Philip Roth, who suffers from arthritis in one shoulder. RSI: a very sore point for writers 2010-09-17T10:21:00Z Charles Dickens died before finishing the novel of the title, leaving all sorts of questions hovering in the soupy air of the provincial English town where the story is primarily set. Theater Review: ‘The Mystery of Edwin Drood,’ Revived by Roundabout Theater 2012-11-14T03:30:07Z The great novels of Charles Dickens were first read in periodical cliffhanger installments. Film: An Old Pairing: Summer and Movie Sequels 2010-06-11T04:28:00Z It’s hard to imagine Ebenezer Scrooge, Miss Havisham and the Artful Dodger all occupying the same stage, but that’s the effect of “Young Charles Dickens,” a new musical from New York City Children’s Theater. Review: ‘Young Charles Dickens’ Musically Mixes Fact and Fiction 2015-12-11T05:00:00Z So is his sense of Chekhov as a social satirist, whose characters are closer to the quirky grotesques of Charles Dickens than we usually realize. On the London Stage, Love Doesn’t Just Hurt, It Kills 2016-08-08T04:00:00Z We read with our minds, Vladimir Nabokov said in his lecture praising Charles Dickens’s “Bleak House,” but “the seat of artistic delight is between our shoulder blades.” Review: The Stories of Joy Williams: Short, but Seldom Sweet 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z As I approached, the clock started to chime the hour, which triggered a little show: its face opened to reveal Charles Dickens sitting in a wooden rowboat along with two kids and a dog. Voyages: The World of Charles Dickens, Complete With Pizza Hut 2012-02-07T19:16:01Z Dark clowns have been around at least since Charles Dickens edited the memoirs of the English entertainer Joseph Grimaldi, but they didn’t become a modern pop-culture cliché until the late 1980s. The Tears (and Fears) of a Clown 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z This 1992 remake of Charles Dickens’ 19th century classic gifts viewers with a heartwarming and kid-friendly adaptation that still hits all the essential notes of the original story. 6 Underrated Holiday Movies to Stream Right Now 2016-12-19T05:00:00Z And Ferber has a further distinction, topped perhaps only by Charles Dickens: three of her books have been made into musicals. ‘Giant’ the Musical at the Public Theater 2012-11-18T05:04:01Z They also heartily steal from Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol.” Shakespeare meets Dickens in ‘Holiday of Errors’ 2013-12-12T05:21:04Z "I call her the Charles Dickens of the 21st century," added Lee, who is British. At ABC, Thursday night is prime Shonda Rhimes time 2014-05-14T04:00:00Z His great-great-grandfather was a London bookseller, in close touch with literati like Charles Dickens and Thomas Hardy. Antiques: A Faberg? Exhibition Without ?Fauxberg?s? 2011-06-30T20:30:04Z Descendants of that brilliant marketer Charles Dickens, they relish the attention, the selfies, the chance to meet their fans and sign copies of their books. The book is dead. Long live the book festival. 2017-08-29T04:00:00Z It’s believed to have gone on sale in the same week in December 1843 that Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” first was published. Cheers! Or not: ‘Scandalous’ 1st Christmas card up for sale 2020-12-03T05:00:00Z "I blame Charles Dickens for the death of my father," Eliza later asserts. This House is Haunted, by John Boyne – review 2013-05-19T12:00:03Z For the magazine this week, I wrote a piece about the legacy of Charles Dickens. Dickens Turns 200 This Year. We Will Blog His Ten Best Books 2012-01-20T14:00:32Z Sims adds some surprises, notably a wonderful piece of reporting in which Charles Dickens accompanies a bobby on his rounds. Crime fiction: Nothing like a good 19th-century mystery 2012-01-04T22:42:04Z The essentials: It just wouldn’t be Christmas without “A Christmas Carol,” Charles Dickens’ harrowing and heartwarming story of holiday redemption. The 99-Seat Beat: Holiday theater to get you in the spirit, from Jane Austen to Chico's Angels 2017-11-24T05:00:00Z How gratified I am by Robert Gottlieb’s election week endorsement of Charles Dickens’s works, albeit in his less than enthusiastic review of A. N. Wilson’s book. England’s Greatest Novelist and Other Letters to the Editor 2020-11-20T05:00:00Z For him, this meant the classics his mother steered him to, including favorites “Black Beauty” by Anna Sewell and “A Tale of Two Cities” by Charles Dickens. Life-changing job he had at age 19 inspired Scott Simon’s new ‘Sunnyside Place’ 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z Two Charles Dickens plays featuring young actors are on local stages this month. Charles Dickens plays put local boys in the spotlight 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z Their plight inspired social reformers - including a neighbor, Charles Dickens, who likely used the building as inspiration for his novel "Oliver Twist." Neighbors bid to save 'Oliver Twist' workhouse 2011-02-24T17:56:09Z An earlier iteration was purportedly a favorite elixir of Charles Dickens when he visited Boston in the mid-1800s, back when the word "cocktail" itself was only a few decades old. The unfailing elegance of a French 75 2022-07-27T04:00:00Z Of the 70 books that got her seal of approval, 59 made it onto the New York Times bestseller list; even Charles Dickens revisited the bestseller lists, to the awe of English teachers worldwide. Weight Watchers sees the 'Oprah effect' – but it may not last 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z It may or may not be an in-joke that Mr. Lecesne’s show includes a brief reference to Charles Dickens, but even before the moment arrived I’d made the comparison myself. Review: ‘The Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey,’ James Lecesne’s One-Man Play 2015-02-22T05:00:00Z Charles Dickens often dominates the stage at this time of year, with variations on “A Christmas Carol” only slightly less common than jingle bells and jolly Santas. Two Timely Takes on Hans Christian Andersen’s Tales 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z Charles Dickens House on Doughty Street where the author lived for 2 1/2 years. Two favorite neighborhoods in London: Marylebone and Bloomsbury 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z So when Charles Dickens was writing “David Copperfield,” it was two or three books. Paul and Justin Theroux on Eccentric Patriarchs and ‘The Mosquito Coast’ 2021-04-23T04:00:00Z Charles Dickens gives a reading of one of his books. Charles Dickens the dramatist: why it should've been an actor's life for Boz 2012-02-08T16:53:08Z Although the building didn’t burn, the fire forced the cancellation of previews and the opening weekend for “Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol” — costing the company about $50,000 in lost ticket sales, it said. The 99-Seat Beat: A theater in fire-scarred Ventura makes its holiday wish 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z Sometimes things that I read touch me – writers like Lewis Carroll and Charles Dickens affect me. Robin Gibb: 'I don't sing with my voice, I sing with my heart' ? a classic interview from 1969 2012-05-21T10:39:33Z The spirit of Charles Dickens, who also shows up, claims to play regular poker matches with Jane Austen in the afterlife. Only Second City would give you Dickens and Austen playing poker in the afterlife 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z Charles Dickens wrote "A Christmas Carol" quickly — in six weeks, in a fever of inspiration. 2009-12-25T01:45:00Z In 2000 Binchy was ranked third in the World Book Day poll of favourite authors - ahead of Jane Austen and Charles Dickens. Author Maeve Binchy dies aged 72 2012-07-31T09:27:27Z In the words of Charles Dickens and Cher: “’Tis a far, far better thing doing stuff for other people.” Boyhood, Moonlight and beyond: the best coming-of-age movies 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z Charles Dickens and the King of Hawaii were among them. A nice place to rest 2012-10-07T20:00:00Z Mirren compared the widow Winchester, whom she called “fascinating,” to jilted spinster Miss Haversham from Charles Dickens’ “Great Expectations,” a literary character famous for being an eccentric, distraught recluse who lives in the past. Helen Mirren delves into the haunted mystery of 'Winchester' 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z A first edition of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol is among a treasure trove of books being auctioned in Edinburgh this week. Book collection could fetch £230,000 2013-05-12T15:44:13Z Lattice: My reading resolution is to read some of Charles Dickens books as i got all of his books for Christmas. Your new year reading resolutions 2013-01-10T15:35:00Z Those penny newspapers and cheap magazines, hungry for copy, established a market for short stories and soon led to the emergence of serialized fiction, like that of Charles Dickens. Paper, books and the art of collecting 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z Samuel Johnson, Herman Melville and, best of all, Charles Dickens are probably quoted most often. What does this remind you of? A compendium of metaphors can help. 2016-04-20T04:00:00Z There are no simple answers to the mystery of Charles Dickens; he remains richly and eternally unfathomable. The Great Charles Dickens Scandal by Michael Slater - review 2012-11-23T22:55:02Z If so, they would surely benefit from visiting the new, charmingly instructive adaptation of Charles Dickens’s evergreen of Yuletide redemption, which opened Wednesday at the Lyceum Theater. ‘A Christmas Carol’ Review: God Rest Ye Merry, Plutocrats 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z If this was Jane Austen or Charles Dickens, unquestionably this house would have been preserved. Conan Doyle expert mounts legal challenge to preserve author's home 2010-07-19T16:01:00Z Gaskell was visited in the house by great literary figures including Charles Dickens and Charlotte Bronte, and the author lived there until her death in 1865. Gaskell home gets £2m restoration 2012-06-13T08:42:06Z Charles Dickens considered the circular Concert Room such a perfect venue that he gave multiple readings there. Five Reasons to Visit Liverpool 2012-10-21T15:00:00Z In The Unquiet Dead, the third episode of series one, the Doctor and Rose met Charles Dickens, on Christmas Eve, and were visited by ghosts. Doctor Who: A Christmas Carol ? Christmas special 2010 2010-12-25T19:00:01Z Morbid is dashing off to Paris every other week to gape at the corpses on public display at the city morgue, which is what Charles Dickens and his friend Wilkie Collins did for fun. Summer Reading 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z Throughout the gallery, modern “relics” were on display — Charles Dickens’s quill pen, Queen Victoria’s stocking, a blanket and pillow from Freud’s couch. The Strange, Still World of Cornelia Parker 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z Charles Dickens: his 200th birthday celebrations are over but his online presence grows. Classic Dickens or Boz with a twist: it's all online 2013-01-20T00:05:39Z Some of the homes that they resided in are grander than others, including one for the great Victorian novelist Charles Dickens in the city’s posh Bloomsbury neighborhood. London honors Muppets creator Jim Henson with blue plaque 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z Of particular concern to us this week, however is his long stage and screen relationship with Charles Dickens. LIVE webchat: Simon Callow on Charles Dickens 2012-02-07T10:02:00Z Fifty years was long enough, I suppose, to put off reading Charles Dickens again. Beyond Expectations: Rereading Dickens 2016-12-28T05:00:00Z Rowling, it’s Charles Dickens, and even readers who resisted fantasy fell under her spell. Review | Susanna Clarke’s infinitely clever ‘Piranesi’ is enough to make you appreciate life in quarantine 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z A sweet kid with a poet’s soul, Ponyboy stays up late reading Charles Dickens and glories in sunsets. ‘The Outsiders’ Review: Growing Pains Both Brutal and Poetic 2023-03-06T05:00:00Z Because by marrying fact and fiction McKay is doing not only what Summerscale encourages, he's also following in the not undistinguished footsteps of Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins. The Suspicions of Mr Whicher; The Fantastic Mr Feynman – TV review 2013-05-13T06:00:25Z And the “Great Expectations” of the Charles Dickens novel are wedded to Marchesa , a brand closely associated with Hollywood and its overflowing red carpets. Special Report: Fashion: Leaving the Big Country 2011-02-17T19:00:58Z I would be a mute host, listening intently to the conversation between Muriel Spark, Robert Louis Stevenson and Charles Dickens. Ian Rankin: By the Book 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z Literary giant Tom Robbins said of her book, “It could stagger Charles Dickens, electrify Maxim Gorky and cause Jane Austen to walk around in army boots.” Civilities: 8 LGBT names to know in 2016 2016-01-18T05:00:00Z In the summer of 1870, many Victorian Londoners who loved a good yarn were engrossed in the latest serialized novel by Charles Dickens, the most popular and esteemed fiction writer of his day. Left hanging by Dickens' 'Edwin Drood'? 2 takes coming our way 2012-04-04T20:36:04Z Perhaps “spares” is not the right word for what Jacob Marley’s partner in predatory lending endures in the director Stephen Donnelly’s vivid if hardly warranted adaptation of Charles Dickens’s 1843 novella. ‘Scrooge: A Christmas Carol’ Review: Slightly Off Key 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z Charles Dickens: “I consider him the first TV writer.” ‘Mad Men’ Creator Matthew Weiner’s Foray Into Fiction 2017-11-06T05:00:00Z In many respects, they give a more realistic portrayal of working class life in London than Charles Dickens’s novels.” An Early Triumph in Information Design 2010-05-23T16:00:00Z Like Charles Dickens or “Alice in Wonderland,” there’s a sense that it is fantasy, but it’s rooted in childlike desire. Wayne Coyne of the Flaming Lips on the Band’s New Left Turn 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z Different decades have seen different screen adaptations of the Charles Dickens story, some warm, some dark. What’s on TV This Week: Kennedy Center Honors and ‘Insecure’ 2021-12-20T05:00:00Z Also in the category is Claire Tomalin's account of Charles Dickens, who is expected to be the subject of a raft of books in the run-up to the bicentenary of his birth next February. Booker winner, poet laureate vie for UK Costa prize 2011-11-15T19:37:05Z Mr. Irving, in turn, compared “The Nix” to works by Charles Dickens and other 19th-century masters. Nathan Hill Is Compared to John Irving. Irving Compares Him to Dickens. 2016-08-26T04:00:00Z If you’re in England’s capital around Christmas time, stop by the Charles Dickens Museum. 8 Travel Itineraries for English Literature Lovers 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z The answer came, she said, from a visitation by Charles Dickens. An Appalachian Elegy, Hillbillies Not Included 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z And here’s Charles Dickens, a preening coxcomb prepared to spend eternity congratulating himself on his own literary reputation. The sparks fly when Tolstoy, Jefferson and Dickens meet in the afterlife 2016-04-05T04:00:00Z An opening musical-theatre number based on the Charles Dickens' novel Oliver Twist. New Edinburgh Act of the Day: Sheeps 2011-08-16T13:26:54Z Photograph: Ronald Grant Archive Hollywood is planning an adventure film set in the world of Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist, in which the angelic orphan re-encounters the Artful Dodger 20 years later. Oliver Twist to turn crime fighter in Hollywood reinvention 2013-02-12T14:12:47Z His looks also suited the works, and characters, of Charles Dickens. In pictures: Warren Clarke 2014-11-12T05:00:00Z The first Charles Dickens statue in the UK will be unveiled later, on what would have been his 202nd birthday. Charles Dickens statue unveiled 2014-02-07T04:36:25Z Curtis, whose successes include Four Weddings and a Funeral, Notting Hill and the Blackadder TV series, admits to being "a huge fan" of an author he likens to Charles Dickens. Never a Dahl moment: Esio Trot on TV 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z Today marks the bicentenary of the birth of Victorian author Charles Dickens. VIDEO: Dickens's London: Prison to the pub 2012-02-07T02:14:32Z Charles Dickens and Henry James wrote about her. Kimberly Elkins’s ‘What Is Visible,’ a novel about Laura Bridgman Jack Thorne’s often delicious adaptation of the Charles Dickens classic, directed by Matthew Warchus, will be packing up its chocolate chip cookies and oranges. 11 Plays and Musicals to Go to in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-12-26T05:00:00Z “We’re great in the U.K. at setting up a committee, but what we need is action,” Cindy Sughrue, the director of the Charles Dickens Museum in London, said in a telephone interview. Cultural Life Is Back in Europe. In the U.K., They Talk of Collapse. 2020-07-01T04:00:00Z Sometimes actors dressed as Woolf or Charles Dickens lead attendees. ‘London literary pub’ tour brings writers and writing home 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z Britain on Tuesday marked the 200th birthday of Charles Dickens, the first global celebrity author and chronicler of a world of urban inequality that looks a lot like the one we live in today. Britain marks Charles Dickens' 200th birthday 2012-02-07T23:46:05Z On learning of his prize, Leno said he was a fan of Twain's work - joking that A Tale of Two Cities, written by Charles Dickens, was one of his favourite books. Jay Leno awarded Mark Twain Prize 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z It’s a plot Charles Dickens would have rejected as overly melodramatic and implausible. Bromance with a murderer: The bizarre true story behind James Franco’s “True Story” 2015-04-14T04:00:00Z Remixing Arthur Conan Doyle and Charles Dickens, this is a clever, crowd-pleasing holiday comedy that happens also to be a murder mystery. ‘A Sherlock Carol’ Review: Crime-Solving on Christmas Eve 2021-12-01T05:00:00Z This is a confected world of Capra-esque American stereotypes wearing dungarees and broad grins, and Charles Dickens characters serving up old English history. The norms of Norman Rockwell 2011-01-30T22:00:03Z Nobody grasped these exigencies better than Charles Dickens. Perspective | It’s Christmas. Let the murder begin. 2017-12-19T05:00:00Z Charles Dickens set half of Little Dorrit in a debtors’ prison. Review: Paul Murray's The Mark and the Void 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z When I wrote my first novel nearly 30 years ago, my reading was not Jewish American but mainly the English novelists such as Charles Dickens, Jane Austen and Samuel Johnson. Q&A: Howard Jacobson, Winner of the 2010 Man Booker Prize for The Finkler Question 2010-10-15T16:25:00Z That’s when the neighborhood became notorious as Five Points, which Charles Dickens described as the worst slum he had ever seen. When Manhattan Was Mannahatta: A Stroll Through the Centuries 2020-05-13T04:00:00Z The citizens of Deadwood don't suggest Matthew Brady photo subjects but caricatures by a 19th-century newspaper editorial cartoonist, or pen-and-ink illustrations of Charles Dickens characters. "Deadwood" rides again 2010-12-12T00:01:00Z Except David Copperfield was Charles Dickens’ eighth novel, and it marked a departure. Counting Down Dickens' Greatest Novels. Number 4: David Copperfield 2012-02-02T23:24:54Z Charles Dickens was perhaps the greatest chronicler of the sentimental city; he makes the reader empathise with Victorian London, charting its emotional geography as much as its physical. Leo Hollis's top 10 books about cities 2013-04-26T07:37:40Z But don't forget that first and foremost, Charles Dickens was a man of the theatre, who loved all the life and vitality of London's theatre scene, both on stage and off. Charles Dickens the dramatist: why it should've been an actor's life for Boz 2012-02-08T16:53:08Z One hundred and fifty years after its first appearance, Great Expectations, which Charles Dickens published in All the Year Round from 1 December 1860 to 2 August 1861, continues to delight. Dickens's Great Expectations 2010-12-29T09:00:03Z So long as we forget that Charles Dickens ever existed. Sons and Lovers: a bad book by a very good writer 2013-06-20T15:35:02Z Other examples include Lewis Carroll’s story about an imaginative young girl who learns to find her own way in “Alice in Wonderland” or Charles Dickens’ tale of financial hardship and family in “A Christmas Carol.” Like "Little Women," books by Zitkála-Šá and Taha Hussein are classics 2019-12-15T05:00:00Z Margolyes has returned to the stage frequently over the years and has traveled with her solo show "Dickens' Women," in which she plays multiple characters from the novels of Charles Dickens. Miriam Margolyes on playing Sue Mengers in 'I'll Eat You Last' 2014-11-12T05:00:00Z Although the inmates left little record of their time there, Charles Dickens, who took a tour in 1842, deemed the enforced silence “immeasurably worse than any torture of the body.” The Case for Covering Your Ears in Noisy Times 2019-02-18T05:00:00Z There were back-and-forth fights over figures as straightforward as Charles Dickens. Bob Dylan, a laureate sure, but by what measure a poet 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z It’s telling that a young reporter named Charles Dickens was originally hired to write text to accompany a series of comic drawings by Robert Seymour. Perspective | Illustrated novels have a vibrant history. A rich new era may be upon us. 2020-12-21T05:00:00Z “Oliver!,” based on the Charles Dickens novel “Oliver Twist,” is the story of an orphan’s search for belonging in that band of young pickpockets in 1830s London. ‘Oliver!’ Returns, With Darker Twists Intact 2023-05-01T04:00:00Z Tomalin, the esteemed English biographer of Samuel Pepys, Jane Austen, Charles Dickens and others, writes briskly and sensitively here of her own life. Times Critics’ Top Books of 2018 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z Come back tomorrow for our look at Charles Dickens’ second best novel. Top 10 Non-Dickens Books for Dickens Fans 2012-02-05T20:06:36Z This is what Philip Pullman, author of the beloved trilogy of children’s novels “His Dark Materials,” identifies as a quality Charles Dickens possessed “in abundance.” Philip Pullman’s ‘Daemon Voices’ Casts an Entrancing Spell 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z ACT Theatre continues a long holiday tradition of presenting a limber and ever-appealing version of the Charles Dickens morality tale of Christmas cheer and empathy for the poor. The Week Ahead: Apolo Ohno, 'A Christmas Carol,' Northwest Girlchoir 2010-11-28T05:01:00Z But I also grew up reading Doris Lessing's Rhodesia novels, and Tolstoy, and Charles Dickens, whom I think is extremely political. Barbara Kingsolver: from witch hunt to winner 2010-06-10T17:36:00Z Charles Dickens will not ask us to lend him money, though he may complain about how much he is lending to children, parents, relatives, friends, and even people he hardly knows. Imagined Meetings With Joyce, Dickens, Hardy, and Lawrence 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z Charles Dickens, Hughes tells us, joked that “some of his friends welcomed his beard because it meant they saw less of him.” Review | Why Darwin grew that iconic beard and other tales of the Victorian era 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z On a street of chocolate-box Georgian houses in Bloomsbury, the Charles Dickens Museum will reopen in time for the author’s 200th birthday. 45 Places to Go in 2012 2012-01-06T17:44:12Z More than 70 actors, town residents and visitors with jump into Victorian dress to assist “Charles Dickens” and his friend, “Queen Victoria,” on a fact-finding mission to help write “A Christmas Carol.” In Transit Blog: In New York State, Dickens and Root Vegetable Curling 2013-12-20T15:52:26Z But something about Charles Dickens’s “David Copperfield” seems to want the irreverence of the man responsible for “In the Loop” and “Veep” and “The Death of Stalin.” 12 Things Our Critics Are Looking Forward to in 2020 2019-12-31T05:00:00Z Jack Thorne’s adaptation of Charles Dickens’s classic has left Broadway for a national tour, with stops in San Francisco and Los Angeles, but the Ghost of Christmas Past still haunts plenty of New York venues. A Guide to New York Holiday Events: Trains, Nutcrackers and a 79-Foot Tree 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z The Tony-winning play with music and lyrics by Rupert Holmes is loosely based on the book of the same name that Charles Dickens was working on when he died in 1870. Chita Rivera to return to Broadway with a mystery 2012-03-01T05:19:08Z In “A Christmas Carol,” the Charles Dickens tale as reimagined by Jack Thorne, Scrooge never attends a séance, but spirits visit him all the same. A Séance Relies on Illusion. So Does Theater. 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z Along with its most prominent characters, “Mrs. Dalloway” is almost as densely populated as a novel by Charles Dickens. Michael Cunningham on Virginia Woolf’s Literary Revolution 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z That most durable of holiday yarns, "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens, is the most encored, adapted and renovated holiday story on the American stage. Review: Seattle Public Theater production catches us up with Jacob Marley 2010-12-16T21:52:16Z The rising e-book tide likely hurt sales for Winfrey's final choice, in December 2010, a special Penguin edition of the Charles Dickens novels "A Tale of Two Cities" and "Great Expectations." Eckhart Tolle tops Winfrey sales list 2011-05-20T04:16:18Z All was revealed when Mr. Gurung explained that Miss Havisham, the jilted bride descended into tattered madness in the Charles Dickens novel “Great Expectations,” was his inspiration. Special Report: Fashion: Addicted to Love 2011-02-13T17:19:03Z It is no coincidence that Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol features more ghosts than carols, or that the 1963 Andy Williams song It's The Most Wonderful Time of the Year promises "scary ghost stories". Why do we love a festive ghost tale? 2013-12-23T16:56:48Z Brown uses testimony from an official inquiry and her own interviews with survivors to recreate the sealers’ apocalyptic suffering, and calls out a feudal version of capitalism that makes Charles Dickens’s London seem quaint. Read Your Way Through Newfoundland 2022-07-20T04:00:00Z You could say precisely the same about Jane Austen, Charles Dickens and Henry James. A life in writing: Jack Higgins 2010-07-30T23:06:00Z For anyone who has ever thought Charles Dickens was lurking inside his or her prose, a new website claims it can find your inner author. I Write Like erupts online, authors scratch heads 2010-07-16T21:57:00Z I adapted this punch recipe from my friend David Wondrich, the cocktail historian, who borrowed it from Charles Dickens, who used it to mitigate the damp winters of Victorian England. A hot rum punch raises the thermostat 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z Located at 48 Doughty Street, the Charles Dickens Museum is one of the author’s former homes; he completed many works there, including Oliver Twist and Nicholas Nickleby. London’s Charles Dickens Museum Has Purchased the Writer’s Desk 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z Except for Charles Dickens — who took time from writing novels to say of Haydon that “he most unquestionably was a very bad painter” — the gang’s all here. Mr. Turner at Cannes: Portrait of the Artist as a Boar 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z Art’s presence in prisons is ages old: Visiting Philadelphia in 1842, Charles Dickens admired a Dutch wall clock with a vinegar-bottle pendulum made by a prisoner. No License Plates Here: Using Art to Transcend Prison Walls 2017-04-02T04:00:00Z “Great Expectations” Charles Dickens was born on Feb. 7, 1812, and slightly bizarrely, I was born on Feb. 7, 1962, 150 years later. For Eddie Izzard, a ‘99’ Ice Cream and a Waterloo Sunset Are Wondrous Things 2021-03-23T04:00:00Z One final suggestion: If you’re looking for novels that might help you navigate your complex feelings about debt, look to the work of Charles Dickens. I’m Drowning in $100,000 of Debt. But Someone Wants to Help. 2018-07-24T04:00:00Z Or, like Mrs Gamp, in Charles Dickens’s Martin Chuzzlewit, illiterate and drunk on gin. Health warning: why the sexy nurse stereotype is no laughing matter 2017-08-23T04:00:00Z Come back tomorrow for our look at Charles Dickens’ third best novel. Counting Down Dickens' Greatest Novels. Number 4: David Copperfield 2012-02-02T23:24:54Z Charles Dickens's unfinished work The Mystery Of Edwin Drood is to be given a new ending in a major BBC adaptation. BBC finishes Dickens's Drood book 2011-01-25T12:55:20Z The clerk doesn’t recognize him, despite a sign reading “Charles Dickens Slept Here.” A Fan Letter to Charles Dickens 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z Charles Dickens is sort of like a god, but to see something that makes him accessible is just so thrilling to me. Suzy Nakamura Informs Herself With ‘The Dollop,’ Sister Wendy and Her Mother’s Diary 2022-09-27T04:00:00Z Maybe I was scarred by too many terrible community theater productions of “Oliver!” but other than “A Christmas Carol,” I haven’t read a single word of Charles Dickens. Chris Bohjalian Can Read for Hours in the Bath 2021-04-22T04:00:00Z Charles Dickens, as you might expect of a novelist who made his fortune writing serialized cliffhangers, would like a little more drama with his religion. Review: Jefferson, Dickens and Tolstoy Debate Jesus. ‘Discord’ Ensues. 2017-10-01T04:00:00Z Armando Iannucci makes bright, irreverent work of Charles Dickens’s classic novel, populating the famously crowded story with a glorious cast of gratifyingly varied actors. Perspective | Best movies of 2020: Diverse thrills, chills, Dickensian laughs and a pandemic-friendly trip to Greece 2020-12-07T05:00:00Z A blue plaque on the exterior of the Charles Dickens museum in London. Blue plaques scheme suspended after 34% cut in government funding 2013-01-06T22:33:36Z Just as important, he has also reinvented himself as a literary journalist, reviewing dance performances and editing anthologies of jazz criticism, as well as producing a wonderful, unlikely book about Charles Dickens’s 10 children. ‘Avid Reader’: Robert Gottlieb’s candid look inside the golden era of publishing 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z The Tony-winning play is loosely based on the book of the same name that Charles Dickens was working on when he died in 1870. Block, Norton and Chase join 'Edwin Drood' 2012-06-28T17:19:09Z Around the same time, Charles Dickens wrote “A Christmas Carol” — celebrating the power of the Christmas spirit that still echoes across England today. For scenes out of an old-fashioned Christmas card, celebrate the holiday in England 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z After the workshop in Oregon, Posner commissioned Eason to adapt a Charles Dickens short story for Two River, the New Jersey theater company he was running at the time. Director and playwright who met on an artistic blind date are great collaborators When I was older, Charles Dickens inspired my sense of justice and fairness. Ayaan Hirsi Ali: By the Book 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z Some of my favorite authors in literature are guys that are great portrayers of childhood, but not necessarily childish - Mark Twain, Charles Dickens, Roald Dahl. A Minute With: Guillermo del Toro on "Rise of the Guardians" 2012-11-21T15:03:03Z The brutal world Charles Dickens describes in Hard Times is only one side of the story – the other side is Dickens himself and the Victorians' appetite for his compassionate books. How Dickens and Dor? forecast our winter of discontent 2010-12-17T13:11:47Z "You're surrounded by Merchant Ivory films and adaptations of Jane Austen and Charles Dickens, and I never saw myself represented in British history, in British drama." Oyelowo brings 2 inspiring tales from Africa to Toronto 2016-09-10T04:00:00Z I am — like probably millions of readers spread over many different eras — actively in love with Charles Dickens, or at least with the version of his mind that survives in his writing. Voyages: The World of Charles Dickens, Complete With Pizza Hut 2012-02-07T19:16:01Z Except for Charles Dickens — who took time from writing novels to say of the hapless Haydon that “he most unquestionably was a very bad painter” — the gang’s all here. Review: Mr. Turner: A Sour Man With a Painterly Genius 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z This week: Get into the holiday spirit with three productions of "A Christmas Carol," including South Coast Rep's 36th annual staging of Charles Dickens' beloved holiday fable. L.A. theater openings, Nov. 22-29: 'A Christmas Carol' and more 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z When asked to name three writers she would invite to a dinner party, she listed him along with Maya Angelou and Charles Dickens. Dolly Parton and James Patterson Are Working 9 to 5 on a Novel 2021-08-11T04:00:00Z He also published about a third of the chapters in newspapers around the world before the book’s publication, and sometimes made adjustments according to audience reaction, much as 19th-century writers like Charles Dickens would. Gabriel García Márquez’s Archive Freely Available Online 2017-12-11T05:00:00Z James Joyce and Charles Dickens for example: sometimes genius is just too extreme and other-worldly to be relatable. I Was a Teenage Samuel Beckett: Or, My Literary Biography Problem 2012-01-11T17:47:41Z On three screens, , directed by and starring Ralph Fiennes as a smitten Charles Dickens, registered $37,100 for the weekend and $58,300 over the full holiday. The Hobbit and Frozen Devour The Wolf of Wall Street 2013-12-29T21:52:10Z Claire Tomalin, the esteemed biographer of Samuel Pepys, Jane Austen and Charles Dickens, among others, tells her own story in this memoir. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z An elliptical response such as “With pleasure” is so standard that it has been used by Charles Dickens, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry James, E.M. Memo to schoolmarms: It’s OK to use incomplete sentences 2013-04-18T17:09:00Z Literary Halloween Actors from Theatre 40 read spooky stories by Charles Dickens, et al. L.A. theater openings, Oct. 23-30: Shadow-theater artist Miwa Matreyek and more 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z The Morgan owns the original manuscript of “A Christmas Carol,” which it displays every holiday season and which it invites Charles Dickens — this year, Joel Jeske — to read. Spare Times for Children for Dec. 6-12 2013-12-06T01:34:36Z As ever, “Extreme Makeover” instead aids the have-nots, as curious about the narrative of need as Charles Dickens was. Perspective | All those reality shows you loved about people’s weight, marriage and kids? They’re back — and nicer. 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z His grotesque, stage-hijacking Engineer came across as the flaming, smoking soul of corrupt capitalism, rather in the mold of another uneasy but immortal cultural stereotype, Charles Dickens’s Fagin. Review: Return of the Little Copter That Wowed in ‘Miss Saigon’ 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z On view through Feb. 12 is “Charles Dickens at 200,” a display of his letters, stories, photographs and other items; on Sunday, a tour of the display will be given at 2 p.m. Spare Times for Dec. 9-15 2011-12-08T23:19:57Z The great exceptions to this rule are Charles Dickens and Graham Greene, I suppose because they were very visual writers and masters of plot. Ian Buruma: By the Book 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z Portsmouth's Charles Dickens Birthplace Museum will open to the public for free on Friday to "celebrate" the new statue. Charles Dickens statue unveiled 2014-02-07T04:36:25Z The Classical Theater of Harlem reimagines the Charles Dickens tale with Ebenezer Scrooge as a contemporary real estate predator in need of redemption. The Broadway Shows to See Now 2018-05-21T04:00:00Z It may have inspired the menacingly chilly settings of Shakespeare’s “King Lear” and Charles Dickens’s “A Christmas Carol.” How fashion adapted to climate change — in the Little Ice Age 2017-09-09T04:00:00Z You can't have Christmas without Charles Dickens, who so heavily influenced the way we celebrate the festivities today. This week's new theatre 2012-12-08T00:05:49Z In time for Charles Dickens’ bicentennial on Feb. 7, Radhika Jones will blog his ten best books starting this Friday, Jan. 27. Ten Things To Watch, Read and Listen To: Jan. 23-29 2012-01-23T16:45:39Z Immediately after Charles Dickens published the original novel in 1843, stage adaptations proliferated, and Dickens eventually did public readings himself. On eight-stop ‘Christmas Carol’ tour, varied takes on Ebenezer Scrooge 2015-12-23T05:00:00Z One solo case displays the desk where Charles Dickens likely wrote “Hard Times.” A Cabinet of Wonders Opens Wide 2021-12-28T05:00:00Z Alcott scholar Daniel Shealy says that “Aunt Nellie’s Diary” reflects what the author called her sentimental phase, her early immersion in such British authors as Charles Dickens and Sir Walter Scott. Early, rarely seen Alcott story published in Strand Magazine 2020-06-24T04:00:00Z It comes as little surprise, then, to learn that Ms Pearlman rereads that master of characterisation, Charles Dickens, three times a year. First among equals 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z Come back tomorrow for our look at Charles Dickens’ eighth best novel — Hard Times. Counting Down Dickens' Greatest Novels. Number 9: Dombey and Son 2012-01-28T19:52:46Z Short link for this page: http://gu.com/p/35bf3 In the build-up to the bicentenary of the birth of Charles Dickens, we'll be exploring the writer's life and relevance today through stories, videos, audio, galleries and more. Charles Dickens the dramatist: why it should've been an actor's life for Boz 2012-02-08T16:53:08Z Was it a homage to, or a desecration of, the legacy of Charles Dickens? Voyages: The World of Charles Dickens, Complete With Pizza Hut 2012-02-07T19:16:01Z Portsmouth — the birthplace of Charles Dickens and the former home of H.G. Taking the Slow Boat (and Train) From London to Paris 2015-07-24T04:00:00Z The American balladeer James Taylor will plunge into the world of Charles Dickens. ArtsBeat Blog: Taylor Takes on Dickens in 'A Christmas Carol' 2011-11-11T16:55:30Z For inspiration, participants will first take a brief tour of the Morgan’s exhibition “Charles Dickens at 200.” Spare Times: For Children for Nov. 18-24 2011-11-17T21:44:02Z Charles Dickens burned his, Ringo Starr begged for no more, and the footballer Joe Hart gets his mum to answer his. The celebrities who reply to every letter 2016-04-19T04:00:00Z Charles Dickens, Henry James, Joseph Conrad, Robert Louis Stevenson, all are here—plus a mass of fascinating and forgotten popular literature—their cultural meanings perceptively analysed, if a little doggedly at times. Grey and dreichy 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z When Charles Dickens was born into an impoverished home in 1812, no-one in his family imagined he would become an international celebrity. Stamps feature Dickens characters 2012-06-19T07:18:48Z After seeing that Ms. Dench was known to say “What larks, Pip!” — a phrase from Charles Dickens — “I plopped that into the script,” Mr. Parker said. The Carpetbagger: Writers Rethink Words for the Big Screen 2013-01-02T23:34:49Z Banerjee invites the reader into her colorful, hopeful world, one in which the Northwest island tides coexist with the ghost of Julia Child, Charles Dickens' mirror, and a sari or two. New novels by Kristin Hannah, Anjali Banerjee and Lise Saffran evoke islands of the Northwest 2011-03-16T22:20:04Z Far less radiant is the oddly sour “A Christmas Carol Memory” at Creative Cauldron, where a recently orphaned girl’s discordant relatives head to the attic to perform the Charles Dickens tale with long-neglected family puppets. First-rate ‘Second Shepherd’s Play’ tops the Christmas class 2016-12-06T05:00:00Z In seventh grade, he auditioned for the school play and was cast in an adaptation of Charles Dickens’s “Nicholas Nickleby,” but he immediately decided he couldn’t go through with it because of his stage fright. Lucas Hedges Moves From ‘Manchester’ to the Stage 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z Mirren compared the widow Winchester, whom she called “fascinating,” to jilted spinster Miss Haversham from Charles Dickens’ “Great Expectations,” a literary character famous for being an eccentric, distraught recluse who lives in the past. Helen Mirren delves into the haunted mystery of 'Winchester' 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z Chuck Fischer, author of “Charles Dickens’s ‘A Christmas Carol: A Pop-Up Book’” will lead the program and will sign copies of his book for an hour afterward. Spare Times: For Children for Nov. 18-24 2011-11-17T21:44:02Z Durham city centre, Dickensian Festival , Rochester, Saturday, Sunday Parades, market treats, theatre, magic, music, the Hoi Polloi Ball and a Cabinet of Curiosities wheeled around town, all with a witty Charles Dickens theme. This week's new events 2010-12-04T00:07:00Z It was, wrote the 25-year-old Charles Dickens with heavy irony and no little fury, "a regular place of public entertainment for the poorer classes, a brick and mortar Elysium". 'Oliver Twist' workhouse saved from demolition 2011-03-14T21:15:31Z Of course there are the bonnets and britches of Jane Austen and Charles Dickens – but lets keep things a bit more recent. Six to Watch: Modern novels on TV 2010-05-21T11:39:00Z Q. You've depicted literary characters before, but in playing a renowned author such as Charles Dickens, were you nervous? A Minute With: Ralph Fiennes on Dickens, Shakespeare and Bond 2013-12-24T10:25:37Z Photograph: Corbis Charles Dickens has been identified as the author of a previously unattributed article which attacks the middle classes for patronising the "working man". Charles Dickens identified as author of mystery article 2012-06-25T14:14:38Z Come back tomorrow for our look at Charles Dickens’ sixth best novel — A Tale of Two Cities. Counting Down Dickens' Greatest Novels. Number 7: The Pickwick Papers 2012-01-30T18:40:16Z Ron Moody, a British actor best known for playing Fagin in the 1968 film “Oliver!” based on the Charles Dickens novel, died June 11 at a hospital in London. Ron Moody dies at 91; British actor played Fagin in the movie “Oliver!” 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z Leno, 64, said in a statement in which he jokingly pretended to confuse Twain with the British novelist Charles Dickens. U.S. comedian Leno tapped for Mark Twain Prize for American Humor 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z Somewhere between social and socialist realism – and remember Charles Dickens was also a campaigner who used fiction to promote reform – her book is a 500-page indictment of a culture that is divided, unequal and cruel. EL James, JK Rowling, Hilary Mantel … the women who dominated publishing in 2012 2012-11-30T22:55:17Z It’s an episodic travelogue, a coming-of-age chronicle and an indictment of grim social conditions, with roughly equal measures of Jack Kerouac, J. D. Salinger and Charles Dickens in its DNA. Review: Youthful Recklessness Finds Adventure on the Road in ‘American Honey’ 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z ‘Young Charles Dickens’ Audiences won’t have to have read the Dickens canon to enjoy this earnest and often evocative family musical, from New York City Children’s Theater. Theater Listings for Dec. 18-24 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z Come back tomorrow for the conclusion of our Blogging the Dickens project as we unveil Charles Dickens’ number one novel. Counting Down Dickens' Greatest Novels. Number 2: Great Expectations 2012-02-06T13:00:14Z It was not an obvious choice: Her parents worked as a school secretary and an architectural draftsman in Preston, the British cotton town that was the model for Coketown in Charles Dickens’s “Hard Times.” The British ambassador brings her unique style to Washington 2022-11-02T04:00:00Z But whether Cuba’s Comandante likes it or not, his country is poetry of a different order, something like 1984 penned by Charles Dickens. The way we left Cuba 2012-12-31T18:00:00Z Mark Charles Dickens, the writer's great, great, grandson, said the Dickens family was "delighted" that a statue would "at long last" be erected in the UK. Charles Dickens statue unveiled 2014-02-07T04:36:25Z In 2005 he directed a remake of Charles Dickens's Oliver Twist. 2010-01-23T13:33:00Z In Charles Dickens’s “A Christmas Carol,” the ghosts mostly materialize from the ether in Scrooge’s residence. 5 Things to Do This Weekend 2020-12-10T05:00:00Z A Christmas Carol With Charles Dickens Independent Shakespeare Co.’s annual re-creation of one of the Victorian-era author’s performances of his holiday tale; David Melville stars. L.A. theater openings, Dec. 4-11: 'Complete Works – Table Top Shakespeare' and more 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z Charles Dickens became an author in his own right while living in his Doughty Street home. Dickens house finds generous benefactor in Heritage Lottery Fund 2010-11-20T00:07:00Z Edgar, who famously adapted Charles Dickens's Nicholas Nickleby for the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1980, recently wrote If Only, a play about the future of the coalition government, for the Minerva theatre in Chichester. Silk wins Writers' Guild drama award 2013-11-14T12:46:31Z For much of my adult life, I believed, inaccurately, that I knew the story of Charles Dickens’s “A Christmas Carol”—that I remembered it from childhood. The Ghosts of Christmas: Was Scrooge the First Psychotherapy Patient? 2015-12-24T05:00:00Z In “Lifted: A Gospel House Musical,” Harris — celebrating the 30th year of his Philadelphia company, Rennie Harris Puremovement — delves into spirituality by way of Charles Dickens’s “Oliver Twist.” Review: Finding a Collective Groove in Church and in House Dance 2022-08-10T04:00:00Z When Charles Dickens began writing his first novel—in 1836, the year before Victoria took the throne—the literacy rate in England was less than 50 percent. Why to Read Dickens Now (Or Watch Him on TV) 2012-01-26T19:39:00Z A Christmas Carol A miser has a change of heart in Charles Dickens’ beloved holiday fable. L.A. theater openings, Nov. 20-27: 'Mamma Mia' and more 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z Like the months that 12-year-old Charles Dickens spent working in a factory that made shoe blacking, Mr. Connery’s deprived childhood informed the rest of his life. Sean Connery, Who Embodied James Bond and More, Dies at 90 2020-10-31T04:00:00Z The world’s first printed Christmas card, an artwork created in 1843 that went on to spawn a global industry, has gone on show at the Charles Dickens Museum in London. World's first printed Christmas card goes on display at Dickens museum 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z It all looks wonderful and creepy and combines 21st-century sins with a Victorian vision of squalor – think Charles Dickens as translated by Wes Craven. American Horror Story Hotel trailer: first glimpse of Lady Gaga's Countess 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z For a nice stocking stuffer one year, the Baumans offered a first edition of Charles Dickens’s “A Christmas Carol,” published in 1843. The Baumans, Sellers of Really, Really Rare Books 2019-01-30T05:00:00Z The crime writer, whose latest Guido Brunetti mystery is “Unto Us a Son Is Given,” says Charles Dickens “will teach any writer how to plot and can turn a sentence into an incantation.” By the Book: Donna Leon 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z Some are illuminating, like Charles Dickens’s marked-up copy of “David Copperfield,” in which he excised paragraphs and inscribed prompts that he used in public readings from the book. A Library?s Treasures, From Gutenberg to Malcolm X 2011-05-17T12:00:00Z Also Monday, Winfrey announced her 65th book club selection would be a combination of two Charles Dickens classics, "A Tale of Two Cities" and "Great Expectations." Oprah hosts Franzen, makes new book club pick 2010-12-06T18:24:00Z Raised on the novels of Charles Dickens, he was eager to sample the city’s power and its squalor. A river runs through it 2014-05-08T04:00:00Z Ghosts of Broadway past, present and future unite in a new adaptation of the Charles Dickens Yuletide-cheer monger. 11 Plays and Musicals to Go to in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z What if Charles Dickens made a mistake by focusing on Scrooge, instead of the ghosts who visit him? Winter Movies 2022: Here’s What’s Coming Soon to Streaming and Theaters 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z Mr. Marsan, 42, was in the relatively recent adaptation of Charles Dickens’s “Little Dorrit” by the , and there’s a Dickensian cast to his own history. Eddie Marsan Has a Busy Acting Career 2010-08-06T04:13:00Z The Guild of Literature and Art, on behalf of which Mr. Charles Dickens and his brother amateurs have just charmed the town, is, in our opinion, an excellent institution. Authors and life of poverty: From the archive, 18 Feb 1852 2013-02-18T07:00:00Z It would be as if, after he said that there should be no black worn at his funeral, you were to say Charles Dickens says we should never wear black ... Dickens statue planned for Portsmouth 2011-08-19T11:46:45Z Yet these markers are proxies of our inner states, “accessories accepted in lieu of the internal character,” as Charles Dickens called them. Mind reading is possible! 2012-12-15T23:00:00Z Bravura turn of the week is the repeat of Simon Callow's The Mystery Of Charles Dickens. Next week's radio: from Glastonbury to Classic FM Summer Book Club 2013-06-22T05:00:07Z It was modernity’s fault, capitalism’s fault, Charles Dickens’s fault. Voyages: The World of Charles Dickens, Complete With Pizza Hut 2012-02-07T19:16:01Z The rise of modern detection was a product of Victorian London, and Charles Dickens was one of those fascinated by its impact. Detecting the origins of Sherlock Holmes 2017-01-24T05:00:00Z And he’s still basking in the joy of a hit 2012 revival of “The Mystery of Edwin Drood” — a Tony-winning musical Holmes adapted from a Charles Dickens novel, as well as composed and orchestrated. Rupert Holmes brings ‘Secondhand Lions’ to 5th Ave 2013-09-04T22:05:44Z The land of William Shakespeare, Charles Dickens and Jane Austen still loves to read, and to talk. Making Hay: British book fest conquers the world 2010-06-02T11:37:00Z In this way, Dickens World was a perfect tribute to Charles Dickens. Voyages: The World of Charles Dickens, Complete With Pizza Hut 2012-02-07T19:16:01Z I was retracing the steps of Charles Dickens, who ascended this same pass to get to the monastery while living in Switzerland in 1846. Footsteps: Following Dickens Through Switzerland 2012-07-06T16:19:17Z A Christmas Carol With Charles Dickens Independent Shakespeare Co.'s annual re-creation of one of the Victorian-era author’s performances of his holiday tale; David Melville stars. 40 family-friendly 'Nutcrackers,' 'Christmas Carols' and other SoCal holiday shows 2016-11-25T05:00:00Z Charles Dickens published his first story in a London monthly at age 22. Claire Tomalin's tale of two Dickens 2011-11-09T23:04:07Z Come back tomorrow for our look at Charles Dickens’ ninth best novel — Dombey and Son. Counting Down Dickens' Greatest Novels. Number 10: Oliver Twist 2012-01-27T18:23:43Z His love of magic tricks led him to write “What the Dickens!,” a television drama about Charles Dickens’s fondness for staging amateur magic shows for friends, broadcast on the BBC in 1983. Heathcote Williams, Radical British Poet Who Helped Form Anarchist Nation, Dies at 75 2017-07-05T04:00:00Z In 1843 Charles Dickens wrote: "Home is a word; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to." Dramatic destinations: around Britain in 61 plays 2010-12-13T17:18:00Z The earliest narrative films were adapted from books and plays, and before that dramatizations of the written word helped popularize serialized stories by British authors like Charles Dickens and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Supply and Demand Harmed Hannibal Lecter and 'Go Set A Watchman' 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z Observing a free-labor textile mill and a convict-labor one on a visit to the United States, novelist Charles Dickens couldn’t tell the difference. Why Etan Patz still haunts us 2012-05-25T18:00:00Z It was also a moment when Charles Dickens, Charles Darwin and the future prime minister Benjamin Disraeli, then chancellor of the Exchequer, faced pivotal and stressful tests of their character and careers. Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: A Season With Dickens, Darwin and Disraeli 2017-08-06T04:00:00Z Proceedings were kicked off by the Australian writer DBC Pierre who read the opening passage from Charles Dickens's Bleak House. Book lovers flock to hear Trafalgar Square readings 2011-03-05T00:21:25Z Whittier admired Charles Dickens, and I'm reminded of Gyp, Dora's dog in David Copperfield, in that little masterstroke of premonition: "the dog whined low". Poem of the week: Telling the Bees by John Greenleaf Whittier 2012-06-11T16:30:08Z Exactly 171 years ago, Charles Dickens sat down and wrote "A Christmas Carol." Celebrate the holiday with 'A Christmas Carol' read by Neil Gaiman 2014-12-25T05:00:00Z With so much holiday programming on your TV, here’s a unique alternative: A musical adaptation of Charles Dickens’ 1843 story of Ebenezer Scrooge. Friday TV Picks: ‘A Christmas Carol: The Concert’ on KCTS 2013-12-19T20:00:29Z The book turns out to be an act of posthumous revenge against the author’s father, Charles Straczynski — a villain uglier than any that Stan Lee or Charles Dickens ever dreamed up. Review | As an abused child, he took refuge in superheroes. Then he made a career out of them. 2019-07-24T04:00:00Z During several lecture tours of the United States, he regularly drew the kind of crowds that, in an earlier generation, had come to hear Charles Dickens. He met Hitler, was mocked by Maugham, but what of Hugh Walpole’s books? 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z Life-size versions of the stamps were shown at Charles Dickens World in Chatham, Kent. Stamps feature Dickens characters 2012-06-19T07:18:48Z That Charles Dickens was inspired by Irving’s work? My spooky Halloween sleepover 2014-10-29T04:00:00Z Charles Dickens knew how to sell “A Christmas Carol.” Review: A Ham’s ‘Christmas Carol,’ Without the Honey Glaze 2020-11-30T05:00:00Z The letter is being sold as part of a Books, Manuscripts, Maps and Photographs sale - other lots include first editions of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice and Charles Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities. Lewis Carroll fame woes go on sale 2014-02-18T12:54:29Z In five decades, Howes made appearances in more than 140 films, musicals, plays and television projects including the screen adaption of Charles Dickens’ “Nicholas Nickleby” and “The History of Mr. Polly.” ‘Chitty Chitty Bang Bang’ actor Sally Ann Howes dies at 91 2021-12-22T05:00:00Z Plenty of our Christmas traditions took root during the Victorian era, popularized in part by Charles Dickens’ 1843 novella “A Christmas Carol,” now a holiday show that needs very little introduction. How do you take your holiday shows: Cozy or campy? 2023-11-16T05:00:00Z The hilarious opera singer offers a retelling of “A Christmas Carol,” described as Charles Dickens meeting a bottomless mimosa brunch. Experience gifts 2023: Top picks for places to go and things to do | Produced by Seattle Times Marketing 2023-11-16T05:00:00Z These “mulled” wines were sipped in the winter for warmth and, since the mid-1800s, forever linked to Christmas, thanks to the classic story “A Christmas Carol” by Charles Dickens. This mulled wine recipe pairs with classic comfort food and winter itself 2023-11-14T05:00:00Z A hotel that once inspired Charles Dickens and later welcomed The Beatles has been added to a list of historic sites at risk of neglect, decay or inappropriate development. Hotel that inspired Charles Dickens added to 'at risk' heritage list 2023-11-09T05:00:00Z She asked her teacher for book recommendations and then surprised him by revealing some of her own favorite authors, including Mark Twain, Charles Dickens and Ernest Hemingway — all of whom she had read in translation. Why this AI pioneer is calling for 'human centered' computing 2023-10-20T04:00:00Z At the end of a book tour in the U.K., on a whim, I booked myself into this bed-and-breakfast that was called Bleak House, and it’s where Charles Dickens used to live. The author of 'the great Appalachian novel' is coming to Seattle. Here's what inspired her 2023-10-11T04:00:00Z Join Tiny Tim, the Christmas Ghosts and everyone’s favorite miser in the stage adaption of Charles Dickens’ classic Yuletide tale, proudly returning to ACT Theatre for its 47th year. Experience gifts 2023: Top picks for places to go and things to do | Produced by Seattle Times Marketing 2023-11-16T05:00:00Z Such a fate would mark a significant displacement for the 26 million-member denomination, for centuries the majority religion in the land of Charles Dickens, J.R.R. Rue, Britannia: Most Church of England priests say Britain no longer a Christian nation 2023-08-30T04:00:00Z It also served as the inspiration for regular guest Charles Dickens' novel The Pickwick Papers. Hotel that inspired Charles Dickens added to 'at risk' heritage list 2023-11-09T05:00:00Z Not only is it set in 19th century England with a sprawling cast of characters high and low, but Charles Dickens himself makes an appearance, charming everyone except those who envy his success. What Zadie Smith's new Dickensian delight tells us about the Trump base 2023-08-30T04:00:00Z I really think he is someone that, decades from now, people are going to look back and say he was in the vein of Charles Dickens. What books does a top mystery writer read? 2023-06-06T04:00:00Z "The last time a window came out was for Charles Dickens in the 1860s so he could get an instrument in," said Lord Cobbold. Knebworth House: The stately home making the most of its film credentials 2023-05-27T04:00:00Z One of the greatest realist writers of the nineteenth century was Britain’s Charles Dickens. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z The performance at Charles Dickens Primary School, in the Borough neighborhood of London, was just one of a series of events on Friday linked to issues that have long been a priority for Dr. Biden. The first lady, Jill Biden, greets children and veterans in London. 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z They will also visit the Charles Dickens Primary School, where the students are participating in coronation-related activities. First lady Jill Biden arrives in London for Charles’ coronation 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z However, they said that as a woman, the "influence and importance" of Gaskell's writing had "not been recognised by history in the way that it has for her contemporaries such as Charles Dickens". Elizabeth Gaskell's Manchester explored in new exhibition 2023-04-04T04:00:00Z When she was 12, Connie read “A Tale of Two Cities” by Charles Dickens and became infatuated with books, spending hours at the Boston Public Library. Connie Martinson, who interviewed thousands of authors on TV, dies at 90 2023-03-27T04:00:00Z And it didn’t help that the United States was a nation of spitters, as a disgusted Charles Dickens described it. Did voter fraud kill Edgar Allan Poe? 2023-03-26T04:00:00Z This retelling of Charles Dickens’ coming-of-age novel is not the romanticized version viewers have seen before. Darkness and dirt reign in this version of 'Great Expectations' 2023-03-23T04:00:00Z The stirring early number “Great Expectations,” inspired from the Charles Dickens novel Ponyboy is reading, seems to emerge from the deepest pocket of his soul. Review: A hypnotic new musical adaptation of 'The Outsiders' stays gold 2023-03-07T05:00:00Z Charles Dickens called out such behavior in his “A Christmas Carol.” Opinion | D.C. Housing Authority and landlords can and should do better 2023-02-21T05:00:00Z For instance, he dressed like the antagonist of a Charles Dickens novel for Donald Trump's inauguration. Why do so many Republicans now dress like cartoon supervillains? 2023-02-13T05:00:00Z Such reverie might have worked for Charles Dickens’s “A Christmas Carol” or Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” but no more, thank you very much. Perspective | What readers hate most in books — from dreams to italics 2023-02-08T05:00:00Z When British author Charles Dickens visited the statue in 1842, he wrote, “It has great merit, of course, but it struck me as being rather strained and violent for its subject.” The first statue removed from the Capitol: George Washington in a toga 2023-01-22T05:00:00Z Before the cemetery excavation, the churchyard was frequented by Charles Dickens, who lived nearby and referred to it in “The Tale of Two Cities.” The Hardy Tree, a Beloved Fixture of a London Cemetery, Topples Over 2022-12-28T05:00:00Z There have been many adaptations of Charles Dickens' classic novel about a young orphan named Pip and his experiences in life and in love. TV lookahead: 23 highlights to look out for in 2023 2022-12-25T05:00:00Z I am a lover of Charles Dickens’s “A Christmas Carol” and Benjamin Dreyer’s always thoughtful and beautifully written commentaries on writing and literature. Opinion | Readers critique The Post: Stop trying to show political equivalence 2022-12-23T05:00:00Z Charles Dickens loved turkey, and immortalised it as part of British Christmas in his book A Christmas Carol in 1843 - while American TV later made it look delicious in every Thanksgiving episode. The Christmas questions you've been searching for 2022-12-23T05:00:00Z “You may be a bit of undigested beef,” Charles Dickens wrote, presumably sometime in late October or early November of 1843, “a spot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of an underdone potato.” Opinion | The joy of reading Dickens proves that God blessed us, every one 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z One of our top 10 books of the year, Kingsolver’s update of Charles Dickens’s “David Copperfield” follows the travails of a boy growing up poor in Appalachia. Readers share their favorite audiobooks of the year 2022-12-10T05:00:00Z Performing Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” has been a holiday tradition at theaters across the country for decades. Can ArtsWest and Seattle Rep offer improvements on ‘A Christmas Carol’? 2022-12-05T05:00:00Z A new theatre production of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol will feature sign language to be "more inclusive" for deaf audiences. Theatre's new Christmas show to have sign language 2022-11-28T05:00:00Z Until then, the “Deadpool” star has been busy promoting another holiday flick: “Spirited” — a musical adaptation of Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” starring Reynolds and Will Ferrell — which began streaming Friday on AppleTV+. First Wolverine, now a 'Deadpool' Christmas movie? Ryan Reynolds strikes again 2022-11-20T05:00:00Z “Spirited” is a creative musical comedy based on Charles Dickens’s classic holiday story “A Christmas Carol.” What to watch with your kids: ‘Spirited’ and more 2022-11-18T05:00:00Z Artistic director Braden Abraham will, in his final production before leaving the company, direct this comedy that follows Charles Dickens as he tries to write a Christmas book in a month or risk losing everything. 7 Seattle shows you should see this holiday season 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z From the opening frames, “Spirited” stands out from other clever retreads of Charles Dickens’ 1843 novella by zooming in on its three ghosts. How a clever new spin on 'A Christmas Carol' takes on a Twitter Scrooge 2022-11-11T05:00:00Z “Spirited,” the umpteenth screen incarnation of Charles Dickens’ evergreen “A Christmas Carol,” is such an amusing, buoyant and good-natured entertainment that it’s not hard to forgive this flashy musical-comedy-fantasy’s missteps. Review: Will Ferrell and Ryan Reynolds bring holiday bromance to musical-comedy 'Spirited' 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z It is not, he tells his assistant, “Charles Dickens World, OKAY? You don’t go around talking about principles.” Review | Traditional journalism gave birth to HBO. Then HBO crushed journalism. 2022-10-31T04:00:00Z On vacation she would read her way through his vast library, devouring books by Charles Dickens, George Meredith and George Bernard Shaw. Carmen Callil, pioneering feminist publisher, dies at 84 2022-10-19T04:00:00Z They bought novels by Charles Dickens, walked back and spent a year working their way through “Great Expectations.” Ngo Vinh Long, Lightning Rod for Opposing the Vietnam War, Dies at 78 2022-10-23T04:00:00Z “Some of these stories are almost out of a Charles Dickens novel,” said Rep. Ro Khanna, a California Democrat who is pushing for federal regulation of the secure transport industry. Rules sought for ‘gooning,’ taking troubled kids to care 2022-09-27T04:00:00Z Newly published Charles Dickens letters reveal he was ‘a bit of a diva’ ‘Vampire’ grave shows 17th-century fear of women who ‘didn’t fit in’ 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z “We should have been a republic years ago,” agreed Jack Horton, 71, as he sat in the Charles Dickens Tavern in downtown Melbourne, where 71 percent of people voted “Yes” in 1999. An Aussie republic? In queen’s namesake town, they won’t drink to that. 2022-09-16T04:00:00Z A batch of unseen and unpublished letters from Charles Dickens, some showing his awareness of his own fame, are being displayed for the first time. Unseen Charles Dickens letters show authors awareness of fame 2022-08-29T04:00:00Z Commercial success, however, doesn’t always translate to the enduring literary legacy of a Charles Dickens or a Charlotte Brontë, said Karen Swallow Prior, a veteran literature professor now teaching at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. ‘Left Behind’ author Jenkins banks on power of story for new Christian thriller 2022-08-23T04:00:00Z For example, the analysis of a Charles Dickens novel usually focuses on the struggle of Victorian society to come to terms with the inhumane conditions brought about by the industrial revolution in England. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z Warner played Bob Cratchit in George C Scott's 1984 adaptation of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol, noting it was a pleasure to play a character that wasn't a villain for a change. Titanic and Omen actor David Warner dies at 80 2022-07-25T04:00:00Z Though most of the grand elm trees that Charles Dickens admired and that were the inspiration for the city’s nickname are long gone, a sense of gilded ordinariness remains. The New New Haven 2022-07-09T04:00:00Z The letters, among a collection worth £1.8m, have been acquired by the Charles Dickens Museum. Unseen Charles Dickens letters show authors awareness of fame 2022-08-29T04:00:00Z These corporate Scrooges come off like a villain in a Charles Dickens novel. We asked, Dodgers fans answered: Let Roger Owens throw peanuts! 2022-07-08T04:00:00Z “But the sad thing is not knowing those other Chuck Ds,” he continued, referring to Charles Darwin and Charles Dickens, whose names were also responses in the category. Misidentified Chuck D says everybody doesn’t 'know everything,' even on 'Jeopardy' 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z In front of the public library stands a stone statue of Charles Dickens’s Mr. Pickwick. In Barre, Vt., granite is a way of life — and beyond 2022-06-16T04:00:00Z "To quote Charles Dickens: it was the best of times, it was the worst of times," he said in the memo, which was seen by Reuters. Head of Deutsche Bank's DWS steps down after 'greenwashing' raids 2022-06-01T04:00:00Z The exhibit will go on display at the Charles Dickens Museum and online from Wednesday. Unseen Charles Dickens letters show authors awareness of fame 2022-08-29T04:00:00Z Mr. Will also didn’t mention what Charles Dickens said about Mr. Bumble, the character with whom Mr. Will opened his column: He “had a great idea of his oratorical powers and his importance.” Opinion | George Will’s poor defense of Clarence and Virginia Thomas 2022-04-06T04:00:00Z It’s definitely like a Charles Dickens novel: the best of times, the worst of times. Perspective | Help! My 2-year-old won’t listen to anything I say. 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z The famous English realist novelist Charles Dickens created unforgettable characters and scenes of London’s working poor. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The firm started in 1833 selling Charles Dickens books and The Scotsman newspaper, and became a high street name across the UK. Menzies Aviation faces £560m takeover by Kuwaiti rival 2022-02-21T05:00:00Z A letter written by Charles Dickens in symbols, dots and scribbles sat for decades, unread in a vault in the Morgan Library & Museum. Some Masks to Come Off in New York 2022-02-09T05:00:00Z It was named after former Prime Minister William Pitt with the individual islands taking their names from characters in Charles Dickens' Pickwick Papers. Dudley Naval officer Dave Pitt visits namesake Antarctic islands 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z Researchers who asked the public to help them decipher some of Charles Dickens's coded manuscripts have, with their help, decoded one of his papers. Charles Dickens's code cracked by amateur sleuths 2022-02-06T05:00:00Z Charles Dickens’ famous introduction to “A Tale of Two Cities” resonates when reading T. Jefferson Parker’s 27th mystery, “A Thousand Steps,” set not in pre-revolutionary Paris and London but in post-Summer of Love Laguna Beach. Laguna Beach was a trip in the ’60s. So is T. Jefferson Parker's hallucinatory new thriller 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z Amateur historian Barry West revealed he believed the famous ghost was based on a Dr Miles Marley, a 19th Century medical practitioner who met Charles Dickens in London and later moved. Grave of Dickens' Marley 'inspiration' visited by relative 2021-12-28T05:00:00Z Charles Dickens wrote about such debtors’ prisons in 19th-century England, and Messenger’s book shows that they are alive and well in 21st-century America. Review | For poor defendants, minor crimes can lead to devastating debts 2021-12-22T05:00:00Z Paraphrasing Charles Dickens, he said 2021 had managed to be "the best of times as well as the worst of times". Church in Wales: Archbishop thanks NHS staff in Christmas message 2021-12-24T05:00:00Z Researchers are calling on the public to help decipher some of Charles Dickens' coded manuscripts. Appeal for help to decode mystery Dickens texts 2021-12-24T05:00:00Z From Muppets and Mr. Magoo to George C. Scott, Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” has been adapted so many times there’s one for every taste. What's on TV Saturday: 'The Christmas House 2: Deck Those Halls'; 'Saturday Night Live' 2021-12-18T05:00:00Z “Little Dorrit,” the 1857 novel by Charles Dickens, lampoons the omnipotent “Department of Circumlocution,” whose stupefying procedures keep the heroine down. How Tech Is Helping Poor People Get Government Aid 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z The Ahmanson Theatre, where this new version of the Charles Dickens classic is playing through Jan. 1, positively glows with festive excitement. Review: An eager-to-please 'Christmas Carol' noisily reopens the Ahmanson Theatre 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z We’re talking Jack London, Jules Verne, Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, books for children, and a number of books pertaining to Black history. Biden’s bleak Black Friday 2021-11-25T05:00:00Z Seattle Opera presents two in-person performances by Seattle’s beloved Drunken Tenor Rob McPherson for a comedic retelling of Charles Dickens’ time-honored holiday classic at 7:30 p.m. Where to see holiday lights, dance performances, Santa and more in the Seattle area this 2021 holiday season 2021-11-21T05:00:00Z Rob McPherson, also known as “The Drunken Tenor,” leads in a kooky take on Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol,” in which The Drunken Tenor embarks on a Scrooge-ian journey of redemption. Check out these 2021 Seattle holiday shows for a dose of good cheer 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z “It was then I began to understand that everything in the room had stopped,” Pip says in Charles Dickens’ novel. Waiting at Blaine for the border to open: Warm wishes, year-old packages and snowbirds 2021-11-09T05:00:00Z “Spencer” is definitely presented as a Christmas ghost story, though more Edith Wharton than Charles Dickens, with a lurking Timothy Spall providing some definite Mrs. Danvers vibes. Why are we endlessly fascinated with Princess Di? Here's what 'Spencer' gets right and wrong 2021-11-08T05:00:00Z "Spirited" is a musical based on Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol." Ryan Reynolds reveals he's taking a 'little sabbatical' from making movies 2021-10-16T04:00:00Z Some residents of Charles Dickens House have compared living in the east London social housing block to the sort of life described in some of the author's Victorian-era novels. ‘It’s like living in Victorian-era housing' 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z Charles Dickens was on to something when he wrote of the French Revolution: “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” Opinion | Fear sells. It’s our job not to give in to it. 2021-10-05T04:00:00Z In July, the union described working conditions at Amazon as "Charles Dickens meets 21st century Britain". Amazon offers bonuses to attract 20,000 temporary staff 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z In “A Tale of Two Cities,” Charles Dickens turned that kind of moving violation into the spark for the French Revolution. Review | How to fritter away a family fortune 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z If the law says that about 100 days short of being 18 is sufficient to release Malvo, then, as Charles Dickens’s Mr. Bumble would say, the law is an idiot. Opinion | Lee Boyd Malvo should not be released from prison 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z The famous opening lines "It was the best of times. It was the worst of times" of Charles Dickens' 1859 novel The Tale of Two Cities referred to the period of French revolution. When Lord Kelvin Nearly Killed Darwin's Theory 2021-09-05T04:00:00Z Curious about Charles Dickens’s visits to Washington, the people buried in Washington’s oldest cemetery or the forested parks and Civil War forts in Ward 8? These popular festivals are returning in person this fall. Here’s what to expect. 2021-09-01T04:00:00Z Jonathan Karp, Simon & Schuster’s president and CEO, couldn’t help quoting Charles Dickens: “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” 'Hot vaxxed summer' fizzled, but 'hot books fall' feels like a safe bet 2021-08-24T04:00:00Z Stage versions of Charles Dickens’ holiday chestnut have become part of the seasonal bric-a-brac. Fall Preview: 11 SoCal theater picks to celebrate our return to the stage 2021-08-23T04:00:00Z Her mother in particular was reluctant to allow the marriage of her daughter to a divorced revolutionary nearly twice her age, but he won her over in a conversation about Charles Dickens. Jehan Sadat: Egypt's first lady who transformed women's rights 2021-07-09T04:00:00Z Let the debates begin — and may the odds be forever in Charles Dickens’ favor. For novelist-podcaster Marlon James, it's Dead Writer Summer 2021-06-14T04:00:00Z One physician noted that she read books on Shakespeare, Napoleon Bonaparte, and Marie Antoinette, in addition to Charles Dickens' works. Eugenics, racism and the forced sterilization of heiress Ann Cooper Hewitt 2021-04-20T04:00:00Z He wasn’t a dedicated student, Stuart said, until one day a teacher began reading aloud from Charles Dickens’s “A Tale of Two Cities.” Sam Bernsen, 101, former general counsel of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, dies of covid-19 2021-04-06T04:00:00Z It is based on the classic Charles Dickens' tale of an orphan overcoming life's curveballs as he grows up. Golden Globes 2021: A breakdown of the nominated movies 2021-02-26T05:00:00Z Barrett Browning might be confined to her room but, like Charles Dickens, she deployed her fame, and rapidly widening readership, to advocate against key injustices of her day. What we can learn from Elizabeth Barrett Browning's years in lockdown 2021-02-15T05:00:00Z Her peaceful reading of Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” knocked me out this holiday season. Katy Sewall shares 11 of her favorite lesser-known podcasts (plus 1 pirate radio station) 2021-02-07T05:00:00Z After reading about the global triumph of Welsh actor Emlyn Williams’s recitations of the work of Charles Dickens, Mr. Holbrook figured that he could do the same with a one-man Twain show. Actor Hal Holbrook, indelible portrayer of Mark Twain, dies at 95 2021-02-02T05:00:00Z Wake up bright and early to enjoy a live performance of Charles Dickens’s classic holiday tale, “A Christmas Carol,” performed at The Old Vic Theater in London. Celebrate Kwanzaa With a Craft Workshop and Take Some Time to Meditate 2020-12-19T05:00:00Z Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol was published at the end of 1843. A Christmas Carol: How Scrooge is saving theatres this Christmas 2020-12-19T05:00:00Z In 1843, “A Christmas Carol,” by Charles Dickens, was first published in England. Today in History 2020-12-19T05:00:00Z Reworking one of the most famous Christmas stories for these pandemic times, the streaming musical “Estella Scrooge: A Christmas Carol With a Twist” breathes new life into Charles Dickens’ classic tale. Review: 'Estella Scrooge' packages Dickens as a musical for pandemic times 2020-12-18T05:00:00Z Wilson takes on one of the most popular, prolific and puzzling writers in English literature in “The Mystery of Charles Dickens.” Review: Make William Gaddis your quarantine buddy 2020-12-17T05:00:00Z “Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol” Tony Award winner Jefferson Mays stars in a filmed version of his one-man staging of the beloved holiday fable. The ultimate holiday shows list: 81 'Christmas Carols,' 'Nutcrackers' and more 2020-12-11T05:00:00Z The line from Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” is worth its weight in counting-house gold to local theater companies this time of year. Lost holiday shows hit L.A. arts groups hard. Here's how 2020-12-10T05:00:00Z “This is like a Charles Dickens novel,” said Mark Wolfe, executive director of the National Energy Assistance Directors’ Association. Millions in U.S. heading into the holidays unemployed and over $5,000 behind on rent 2020-12-07T05:00:00Z In a scenario Charles Dickens might have imagined, last week was “a tale two teams.” Backtalk: Times readers sound off on Seahawks’ defense, Husky’s run game and Mariners’ pursuit of Blake Snell 2020-12-04T05:00:00Z Biggest Little Christmas Showdown In this new episode three teams of designers and renovators create miniature Charles Dickens Christmas-themed structures. What's on TV Friday: 'Blue Bloods' on CBS; vaccines on CNN 2020-12-03T05:00:00Z In 1860, the Charles Dickens novel “Great Expectations” was first published in weekly serial form. Today in History 2020-12-01T05:00:00Z My mother wanted me to read English classics such as Charles Dickens. PG Wodehouse: Why India still holds a flame for the English author 2020-11-26T05:00:00Z “Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol” Tony winner Jefferson Mays stars in a filmed version of his hit one-man 2018 staging of the beloved holiday fable. What to watch this weekend: 10 picks including Oprah, Whoopi and Celine 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z Here’s the swerve: The Personal History of David Copperfield is a relatively straightforward adaptation of Charles Dickens’ most famous novel, David Copperfield. The Personal History of David Copperfield is a beautiful new take on a classic story 2020-11-20T05:00:00Z Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol and titles from Daniel Defoe and Aristotle are also among volumes expected to fetch the most money. Rugby School to sell 'rare' Shakespeare and Dickens books 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z The band took its name from a character in the Charles Dickens novel David Copperfield. Uriah Heep: Former keyboard player Ken Hensley dies aged 75 2020-11-05T05:00:00Z Trying to channel the success of “Oliver!” they also adapted Charles Dickens’s novel “David Copperfield” for Broadway, writing the book as well as the score. Al Kasha, songwriter whose ‘Poseidon Adventure’ ballad went to No. 1, dies at 83 2020-09-15T04:00:00Z As one of Charles Dickens’ characters observes in “A Christmas Carol,” philanthropic giving surges during the holiday season because it is “a time, of all others, when Want is keenly felt, and Abundance rejoices.” Editorial Roundup: Excerpts from recent Minnesota editorials 2020-09-29T04:00:00Z Pupils on their first day back to school at Charles Dickens Primary School sat on desks spaced out in the classroom. Masks and class: What schools look like now 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z When Charles Dickens passed by Cairo in 1842 as he traveled from Cincinnati to St. Louis on an American expedition, he had only unkind words for the place. A look at the story of Cairo, Illinois’ Magnolia Manor 2020-08-30T04:00:00Z “David Copperfield” was famously the closest novel to Charles Dickens’ heart and his own life experience, and it has been a favorite of filmmakers dating back to practically the birth of cinema itself. Review: Armando Iannucci's 'David Copperfield' is a delightfully revisionist take on Dickens 2020-08-27T04:00:00Z Wilson’s “The Mystery of Charles Dickens” expecting to find out if the book might be worth reading. Feedback: Sarah Cooper to Sean Hannity, readers have opinions 2020-08-14T04:00:00Z Charles Dickens suggested that fallen women should be diverted to the colonies, where their low status could be ignored by the surplus of men in need of wives. 'Upward-thrusting buildings ejaculating into the sky' – do cities have to be so sexist? 2020-07-06T04:00:00Z And pupils on their first day back to school at Charles Dickens Primary School, in London, queued outside school with their parents at drop-off time. Masks and class: What schools look like now 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z Charles Dickens was 53 when he finished Our Mutual Friend – and kept working furiously until he died five years later. Charles Dickens wrote no fairytale endings – or did he? 2020-06-23T04:00:00Z The Charles Dickens Museum researched the writer's fashion styles and the complexion of his living descendants to create the images for a new exhibition. New photo reveals 'tanned and healthy' Dickens 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z In Charles Dickens’s much beloved novella A Christmas Carol, the curmudgeonly Ebenezer Scrooge is unmoved when the Ghosts of Christmas Past and Present show him how his cruelty and selfishness have harmed others. Coping with ‘Death Awareness’ in the COVID-19 Era 2020-05-13T04:00:00Z One sentencing judge compared the executives to Josiah Bounderby, the callous factory owner in the Charles Dickens novel “Hard Times” who ridicules his workers for wanting too much. ‘My Last Stand’: In South Korea, a Protester’s Lone Fight Against Samsung 2020-04-19T04:00:00Z At the Charles Dickens Primary School, separate areas have been sectioned off for different classes, so the groups don't mix. Masks and class: What schools look like now 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z Emily Steinlight, a literary critic at the University of Pennsylvania, notes that the peril of proximity in the lives of the poor is a theme as old as the works of Charles Dickens. The Coronavirus Class Divide: Space and Privacy 2020-04-12T04:00:00Z The pictures will form part of a new exhibition called Technicolour Dickens: The Living Image of Charles Dickens. New photo reveals 'tanned and healthy' Dickens 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z The iconic opening lines of Charles Dickens’s novel A Christmas Carol convey the idea of the finality of death, a concept that pervades our thinking even when considering the demise of cells. Ghostly metabolic messages from dying cells 2020-03-17T04:00:00Z The note is part of a remarkable collection of letters, manuscripts, original artworks and personal effects that have been acquired by the Charles Dickens museum in London. Charles Dickens 'treasure trove' goes to London museum 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z They have been acquired by the Charles Dickens Museum in London and will go on display later in the year. Unseen Dickens letters take us into a genius life 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z Buried within her floor-to-ceiling collection are books on photography and art, her childhood Bible and her favorite novel, Charles Dickens’ “Great Expectations.” Jessica Simpson's blond bombshell: a memoir that spares no one, including herself 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z Police said the infant was found close to the Charles Dickens' Birthplace Museum. Dead newborn baby found in street 2020-01-25T05:00:00Z Labeled “London Boys Home, 1857,” the album contains careful portraits of young men accompanied by neat handwritten script detailing biographies worthy of a Charles Dickens novel. Inside the Getty photography vaults: How the museum protects historic prints 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z On Christmas Eve, Dayton’s tears weren’t merely from the joy of watching the Charles Dickens classic. Hal Landon Jr.'s final bow as Scrooge brings tears and an end to a 40-year tradition 2019-12-27T05:00:00Z The Charles Dickens Museum acquired the collection from an American who had spent more than 40 years putting it together. Unseen Dickens letters take us into a genius life 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z Nearly 40 inmates spent the holiday season rehearsing Christmas carols and dance ensembles for their performance of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol." Prisoners take 'Christmas Carol' to the public, selling out almost immediately: 'This is like a dream' 2019-12-26T05:00:00Z Her mother came from a more literary-minded family that encouraged her to supplement her readings from the Bible with novels by Charles Dickens and Jane Austen. Elizabeth Spencer, prolific short-story writer and chronicler of the South, dies at 98 2019-12-23T05:00:00Z Ebeneezer Scrooge, at the end of Charles Dickens’ classic “A Christmas Carol,” says, “I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.” Editorial Roundup: Tennessee 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z With countless adaptations of the Charles Dickens classic, viewers can see how Scrooge goes from a greedy miser to a kind and caring person. Top Christmas movies to watch this season 2019-12-23T05:00:00Z Letters by Charles Dickens, revealing his state of mind while working on novels including A Christmas Carol, are to go on display for the first time. Unseen Dickens letters take us into a genius life 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z Adams, in his ninth year starring in Keegan Theatre’s whiskey-fueled spin on Charles Dickens’s tale, “An Irish Carol,” knows the character as David. Three Scrooges: A trio of area actors reflect on playing Dickens’s Christmas curmudgeon 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z “Some of them are like characters from Charles Dickens,” he said. 'A missed opportunity': Banksy reopening falls flat in Port Talbot 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z The novelist Charles Dickens, horrified by balloon ascents, wrote that these “dangerous exhibitions” were no different from public hangings. Perspective | How balloon travel brought science — and our view of the world — to new heights 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z Mr Corbyn went for a copy of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol so Mr Johnson "could then understand how nasty Scrooge was". 10 things you need to know about the campaign 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z Cindy Sughrue, director of the Charles Dickens Museum, says the letters shed light on Dickens' "creative process" and help answer the question "what did he do to enable himself to write?" Unseen Dickens letters take us into a genius life 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z Guy’s Ranch Kitchen In “19th-Century Holiday Feast,” a new Christmas episode, host Guy Fieri invites some chef friends to drop by the ranch to prepare a holiday meal inspired by Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol.” What's on TV Saturday: 'A Christmas Love Story' on Hallmark 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z A Christmas Carol David Mynne plays all the roles in this solo adaptation of Charles Dickens’ classic tale. Theater in L.A. this week: 'Frozen,' 'A Christmas Carol' and more 2019-11-30T05:00:00Z In fact, the over-spenders are acting like the true villains in Charles Dickens’ holiday classic, “A Christmas Carol.” Yes, you do want to be a humbug this holiday season 2019-11-30T05:00:00Z Using real-life inspiration and his vivid imagination, author Charles Dickens brings Ebenezer Scrooge, Tiny Tim and other classic characters to life in ``A Christmas Carol,’' forever changing the holiday season into the celebration known today. Movies on TV this week: 'Giant' on TCM 2019-11-29T05:00:00Z Mark Dickens, the great-great-grandson of Charles Dickens, said: "This quite staggering material brings us even closer to the man himself, his character, feelings, family and friends." Unseen Dickens letters take us into a genius life 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z In 2001, an anonymous buyer paid nearly $30,000 at auction for one of the few remaining original Christmas cards, which were produced the same year as the publication of Charles Dickens’s “A Christmas Carol.” One of World’s First Printed Christmas Cards Goes on Display 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z Corbyn said he would give Johnson a copy of the Charles Dickens classic “A Christmas Carol,” so he could reflect on the character Scrooge. In first debate between Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn, questions of trust dominate 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z Asked by an audience member what non-political Christmas present they would leave under the tree for each other, Jeremy Corbyn said he would give the prime minister a copy of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. Election debate: Johnson and Corbyn clash over NHS future 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z She loves that the commitment brings the family together often for rehearsals, and she finds the message of Charles Dickens’ classic tale sets the right tone for the holidays. Count community theater among holiday traditions for many 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z Independent Shakespeare Co., the kindly folks who bring you the annual Griffith Park Free Shakespeare Festival each summer, are proud to present “A Christmas Carol with Charles Dickens.” Nutcracker and more live theater events this season 2019-11-09T05:00:00Z “They didn’t sell well,” said Simon Eliot, professor emeritus at the Institute of English Studies at the University of London and the guest curator of the exhibition at the Charles Dickens Museum. One of World’s First Printed Christmas Cards Goes on Display 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z His writing drew comparisons to that of Charles Dickens and William Faulkner. Ernest J. Gaines, author of ‘Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman,’ dies at 86 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z Among them are Rochester in Kent, which attracts tourists owing to its links with Charles Dickens and its picturesque High Street, coastal community Cullen in Moray, and the military base at Catterick, North Yorkshire. Cash-desert communities in call for ATMs 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z While continuing with his daily chores — wringing the necks of chickens, castrating pigs with a dull knife — he also plowed through a set of Charles Dickens novels and focused on writing, encouraged by a teacher. Ray Jenkins, prizewinning journalist with ‘ringside seat’ to history, dies at 89 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z But the shocking thing about Susan's case was that she and her family were not born in the times of Charles Dickens. 'I grew up in a Victorian workhouse' 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z Patel plays the title role in The Personal History of David Copperfield, a new adaptation of the Charles Dickens novel which officially launches the film festival later. Horror film wins first-time director £50,000 award 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z The letter caused something of an embarrassment for Charles Dickens who was the patron of Urania Cottage, a home for fallen women. Today’s sex workers, like their Victorian sisters, don’t want ‘saving’ | Kate Lister 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, and the fantasy genre are all arguably more important influences on the series than Lovecraft. Carnival Row openly subverts H.P. Lovecraft’s racism 2019-09-09T04:00:00Z Like practically all awards season films, the new Copperfield is long - around two hours - but in this case that's largely justified by the vast scope of the original Charles Dickens novel. Copperfield's colour-blind casting 'felt natural' 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z It is an art form that, like Miss Havisham in Charles Dickens’s “Great Expectations,” insists on wearing the same wedding dress every day for the rest of its life. Opinion | To save opera, we have to let it die 2019-08-19T04:00:00Z His first film, The Little Island, was released in 1958 and won a Bafta, while his animated adaptation of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol in 1971 led to him winning his first Oscar. Who Framed Roger Rabbit animator dies 2019-08-17T04:00:00Z The video shows a mobile device playing an audiobook version of Charles Dickens’ “David Copperfield,” with text captions appearing as the novel is narrated. Audible to roll out text captions for audiobooks in an upcoming feature 2019-07-18T04:00:00Z A Victorian publisher who made a fortune from imitations of Charles Dickens' novels, which "outraged" the author, is the subject of a new book. The publisher who 'outraged' Dickens 2019-06-23T04:00:00Z They brought the novel back to New Zealand with them, from where it made its way, eventually, to the Charles Dickens Museum in London, where it is a star attraction in the forthcoming exhibition. Dickens novel that joined Captain Scott on doomed expedition goes on display 2019-05-07T04:00:00Z As a boy, Osipov was a voracious reader, and, after making his way through Nicolai Gogol’s “Dead Souls,” he discovered “The Three Musketeers,” by Alexandre Dumas, and “The Pickwick Papers,” by Charles Dickens. A Village Doctor’s Literary Calling 2019-05-06T04:00:00Z One Twitter user imagined that the attorney general took the redaction pen to Charles Dickens's work: The Daily 202: Tax returns show 2020 candidates gave to charity, but not a ton 2019-04-16T04:00:00Z It was Jane Austen and Charles Dickens, those sorts of things. Kate Beckinsale on ‘The Widow’ and dating in a fishbowl: ‘I’m OK being Marmite’ 2019-03-27T04:00:00Z "And it wasn't only painting he learned about. He also developed a love of Charles Dickens and other writers of the day." Van Gogh: How London inspired a genius 2019-03-26T04:00:00Z In London, he worked as an apprentice art dealer, read the novels of Charles Dickens and sketched the River Thames at dusk. Tate exhibition looks at Van Gogh’s early years in London 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z Among the interested were rising literary star Charles Dickens, journalist and future novelist William Makepeace Thackeray, and the recently wed 20-year-old monarch, Queen Victoria. Review | Did crime literature inspire murder in Victorian England? 2019-03-22T04:00:00Z By third grade, he says, he had read all of Charles Dickens and Robert Louis Stevenson, yet it was the prose and pictures of Batman creators Bob Kane and Bill Finger that especially captivated him. Sen. Patrick Leahy was in 5 Batman movies. Now he’s written the foreword for the superhero’s 80th anniversary. 2019-03-13T04:00:00Z The British production Oliver!, a musical version of Charles Dickens's novel Oliver Twist, was released in 1968 and won six Oscars. Oliver! chair found by Antiques Roadshow 2019-03-10T05:00:00Z Learning that he aspired to be an artist, she asked him to make a mural based on the work of Charles Dickens for the service club’s stage. Jasper Johns, American Legend 2019-02-18T05:00:00Z When trying to evaluate the state of US Soccer few conclusions seem more fitting than the start to Charles Dickens’ classic A Tale of Two Cities. Christian Pulisic's splashy transfer exposes gaping flaws in US Soccer 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z “This is like Charles Dickens’s Scrooge on steroids.” ‘I am all alone’: An isolated Trump unleashes a storm of Yuletide gloom 2018-12-24T05:00:00Z Other online responses traded on Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol,” especially when the uncaring miser Ebenezer Scrooge is shown the error of his ways. Trump's 'poor me' Christmas Eve tweet draws mockery as 800,000 federal workers go without pay 2018-12-24T05:00:00Z A Christmas Carol Many people consider this 1938 version their favorite screen adaptation of the Charles Dickens classic. Monday's TV highlights: 'Beauty and the Beast' on ABC 2018-12-23T05:00:00Z It is 175 years since Charles Dickens introduced the world to his vision of Christmas in A Christmas Carol, and from the outset it proved extremely popular. How to do Christmas like Charles Dickens 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z Inspired by the Charles Dickens classic, “A Christmas Carol,” the movie centers around Alexis Taylor, played by Braxton, as she gets the holiday visit of a lifetime. Toni Braxton is in the holiday spirit with Lifetime movie 2018-12-15T05:00:00Z It’s your last weekend to catch Jefferson Mays in “Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol.” Weekend Picks: Taylor Mac, ABT's 'Nutcracker,' Messiah two ways, plus more holiday fun 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z It’s a sea of human beings – vastly underpaid human beings who will walk up to 15 miles in a single shift to pick up the Charles Dickens biography I’m buying for my dad. My shopping habits help Amazon take over the world. Alexa, this ends now | Krista Burton 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z Meanwhile, the protean Jefferson Mays gave resounding theatrical voice to the panoply of eccentrics in Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” in a solo tour de force dexterously directed by Michael Arden. Best theater in 2018: A brave 'Cost of Living,' a radical 'Fairview' and a new star in 'Evan Hansen' 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z Lammy said that the situation may resemble Charles Dickens’ novel Bleak House, which revolves around a will settlement that has been in court so long that few of the participants can remember the original arguments. As Brexit crunch nears, campaign for new referendum gathers pace 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z Debtors prisons are supposed to be a thing of the past, something relegated to dusty Charles Dickens novels about Victorian England. Alabama editorial roundup 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z |
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