Category: Dickens references
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‘The Fraud’: Not quite a review
As you may recall, I was intrigued by Zadie Smith's New Yorker article about how Charles Dickens kept…
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Rehabilitation by Dickens
This story has been all over the Internet: A British would-be terrorist was sentenced to read…
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Charles Dickens on slavery
As we know, slavery was one of the things that most offended Dickens when he first…
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Dickens and van Gogh
Did you know that Dickens was Vincent van Gogh's favorite author? Tate Britain is getting the…
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Famous last words
The ending of A Christmas Carol makes Ron Charles's list of "the 23 most unforgettable last sentences in…
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Recent Dickens mentions
A number of good new "books about books" have recently come out, quite a few of…
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R.I.P. Stan Lee
You've probably heard a lot of tributes today to Marvel Comics's Stan Lee, who has passed…
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On dying well (Dickensian style)
Thomas Maloney of The Guardian lists Sydney Carton's death as one of the best fictional deaths, though he…