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When someone describes a first world problem, I like to reply "Dreadful, that's like something out of #Dickens" shake my head & walk off ...
I would have made a great Disney villain.
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What the Dickens?
When someone describes a first world problem, I like to reply "Dreadful, that's like something out of Dickens" shake my head & walk off … I would have made a great Disney villain. -
If #trump dies, #JDVance is going to have three soul searching, real look in the mirror conversations on Christmas Eve. #uspol #lindseygraham #mitchmcconnell #achristmascarol #dickens
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This piece linked to below lists five good reasons for reading #Dickens. I’d add another: as demonstrated in #BarnabyRudge, he had an acute understanding of the dangers of #nativist #populism: doncurren.blogspot.com/2024/02/on-c...
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On Charles Dickens, Barnaby Ru... -
“As a writer, #Dickens was concerned with social issues of his time such as poverty, child abuse, class conflict, greed, materialism, and bureaucracy. In doing so, he sheds light on what was often the invisible lot of society.” 5 reasons for reading #CharlesDickens open.substack.com/pub/dickensp...
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Dickens the Enchanter by Peter Conrad, 2025
A kaleidoscopic investigation of Dickens's imagination and the world he created.
See Dickens as never before in this creative biography, which delves into his novels, journalistic essays and letters to reveal his strange, hilarious but obsessive personal character and the audacity of a mind that set out, as he said, to rearrange the universe.
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Hard Times
"Now, this schoolroom is a Nation. And in this nation, there are fifty millions of money. Isn’t this a prosperous nation?"
‘What did you say?’ asked Louisa.
‘Miss Louisa, I said I didn’t know. I thought I couldn’t know whether it was a prosperous nation or not, and whether I was in a thriving state or not, unless I knew who had got the money, and whether any of it was mine."
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@ChrisMayLA6 Primary & secondary education are almost universally accepted as a common good. They are not just paid out of the public purse for all children as a right, but participation is actively enforced by the courts.
Yet somehow, tertiary eduction is treated by all major political parties as a luxury good, whose consumers must drown in debt until they retire.
If a child learns well, they get praised. But after 18, learning gets an automatic sentence to the Marshalsea. #Dickens needed!
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Charles Dickens museum condemns his ‘prejudice’.
Novelist held views that ‘cause great offence today’, internal guidance tells staff.
In 2025, The Telegraph revealed that William Shakespeare’s birthplace was to be “decolonised” following concerns about the playwright being used to promote “white supremacy”.
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#currentlyReading #books #Dickens
Trudging through The Pickwick Papers and recognizing the travelogue of story form from Terry Pratchett to Don Quixote. Plots? Who needs a long plot when you can have lots of little ones?
In the audiobook, cracking up at the number of words containing "v" when Sam Wellington or his father expound on anything.
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The Complete Novels of Charles Dickens: Part Two audiobook is on sale to Audible Plus members for £3.05. It’s 244 hours long. 244 hours! It includes the following unabridged novels:
Dombey and Son, David Copperfield, Bleak House, Hard Times, Little Dorrit, A Tale of Two Cities, Great Expectations, Our Mutual Friend, & The Mystery of Edwin Drood.
Part 1 with his early novels is also on sale.
#Dickens #Books #Audiobooks https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/The-Complete-Novels-of-Charles-Dickens-Part-Two-Audiobook/B0G2NBCBHK
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Building on these topics, we spent the following days drafting a new article and preparing our talk, “Soundful Dickens,” analyzing the fictional soundscape of the #Dickens Novel corpus (DNov). We’ll present it next week at the #DHd2026 Conference in Vienna. #DigitalHumanities #BritishFiction
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#Quotes #Dickens #LiftingBurdens
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it for anyone else. -Charles Dickens, novelist (7 Feb 1812-1870) -
"They've such a passion for Liberty that they can't help taking liberties with her." - Martin Chuzzlewit on Americans (Dickens, sharp as ever. I appreciate the Statue Of Liberty wasn't constructed until after Dickens's death.) #BookWormSat #Dickens
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A mid-Victorian illustration of the sudden appearance of the woman in 'The Black Veil', in the creepy mystery story by Charles Dickens, first published in 1836. #BookWormSat #Dickens #Victorian #gothic
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Dickens scholars:
Does anyone have a copy of Sanders, Dickens and the Spirit of the Age (OUP 1999) to hand? If so, could you help me checking a quotation for me?
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Il trucco del riflesso che precorre la materia: precursori di ologrammi nella vecchia epoca vittoriana
https://www.jacoporanieri.com/blog/?p=43769#tecniche #tecnologie #invenzioni #teatro #vittoriani #londra #Inghilterra #fantasmi #illusioni #ottica #riflessi #trucchi #rappresentazioni #dickens #letteratura #ottocento #immagini #spettri #divertimento #intrattenimento #racconti #narrazioni #defunti #cinema #ologrammi
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Happy New Year to you all. A little late, but here's a new blog post from us on "Dickens and Christmas – traditions in the Charles Dickens Museum"
https://www.exploreyourarchive.org/dickens-and-christmas-traditions-in-the-charles-dickens-museum/
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Good question: youtube.com/watch?v=E4D5... @[email protected] on lessons learned from Charles Dickens and much more. #economics #equity #ethics #uspoli #ukpoli #cdnpoli #Dickens
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