Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens (1812-70) was the quintessential Victorian novelist. He gave the world a host of characters like Ebenezer Scrooge and Oliver Twist, who live on in popular culture. Born to lower middle-class parents, Dickens' childhood ended at age 12 when he was put to work in a blacking factory, following the arrest of his father for debt. This experience colored his fiction, which often focuses upon orphans making their way in the world, and upon irresponsible parents.

Dickens was the most popular novelist of his time. It is a testament to his creative genius that a story such as A Christmas Carol, for example, seems always to have been a part of the cultural fabric, though it was not written until 1843. Dickens was a remarkably dramatic, emotional writer, at turns highly comic and equally tragic. Not surprisingly, Dickens had a strong interest in the theater.

There are a few blogs devoted solely to Dickens' life and works. He is also discussed on blogs about Victorian life and literature in a more general sense.

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• Equally Epic Christmas MoviesScrooged and It’s a...

  
  Sprkus — Authority: 480
  Equally Epic Christmas Movies Scrooged and It’s a Wonderful Life used a variation of the plot of Dickens’ A Christmas Carol , but all three are great.
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• In Dead Poets Society

  
  Novel Journey — Authority: 128
  Remembering the fun I had interviewing Charles Dickens last December, I thought I’d have a chat with Clement C. Moore , famous for giving us the b eloved Christmas poem, “A Visit From St. Nicholas” (aka The Night Before Christmas). It was a tough interview. I found Mr. Moore unresponsive and ...
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• No One Can Establish Zion Alone

  
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  For me, the scariest verse in all of scripture has always been D&C 103:2: “And that same sociality which exists among us here will exist among us there…”  It’s hard enough to be a shy introvert now without having to be surrounded by people throughout eternity, too!  But there’s an important lesson in ...
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• Dicken kin performing ‘A Christmas Carol’

  
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• LiteratEye #43: Oh, I wonder, wonder who, ummbadoo-ooh, who, who wrote “The Night Before Christmas”?

  
  The Art of the Prank — Authority: 132
  Here’s the forty-third installment of LiteratEye , a series found only on The Art of the Prank Blog, by W.J. Elvin III, editor and publisher of FIONA: Mysteries & Curiosities of Literary Fraud & Folly and the LitFraud blog . LiteratEye #43: Oh, I wonder, wonder who, ummbadoo-ooh, who, who wrote ...
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• 10 Great Christmas Movies

  
  PimpThisBlog.com - Latest published stories — Authority: 463
  Christmas is always a great time to enjoy a classic film, while everyone hassome time off from work to relax. Here are some of the great Christmas movies to enjoy with all of the family while you tuck into some mince pies.
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• What the Dickens (re-wrote)

  
  Celsius1414 — Authority: 124
  City Room: “A Christmas Rewrite, as Dickens Edits Dickens” It is an enduring mystery of English literature: What secrets lie entombed beneath the thick scribbles that Charles Dickens made as he wrote, and rewrote, the 66 pages of “A Christmas Carol” in 1843? The manuscript of this classic holiday ghost ...
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• HUMBUG? NAH!

  
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  Long Beach Shakespeare Co. sings ‘A Christmas Carol’ across time PHOTO by HENRY JOSEFSBERG Say what you will about his prose, but Charles Dickens was an unqualified success in terms of creating art that inspired people to be better. Consider how a work like Oliver Twist influenced Victorian England to ...
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• 288 Vroom introduces Free 301+ Short Stories Lite for iPhone/iPod Touch

  
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  New Jersey based 288 Vroom LLC today introduces 301+ Short Stories Lite, the free version of their top-selling eBook reader for iPhone and iPod touch. Developed for iPhone and iTouch devices, 301+ Short Stories Lite is quick, easy, and entertaining reading for on-the-go or anytime. The app features continuous and page ...
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• Popeye’s Midwest Roots

  
  Screenwriting from Iowa — Authority: 128
  “Segar grew up in an out-of-the way place but the inspiration for his most successful graphic creations came out of that place.”Ed Black“I’m strong to the finichCause I eats me spinachI’m Popeye the Sailor Man “Thanks to the Google Popeye doodle I saw last night I’ve discovered one more example of a big ...
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• End Of The Magic?

  
  Hip As I Wanna Be — Authority: 128
  I am concerned that I am facing the last year of Christmas magic with my children. At this point, my sons BELIEVE.  They believe with all of their little hearts. But there are some that are close to them who do not.  These children are constantly filling their heads with doubt.  And, yes, their faith is ...
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• End Of The Magic?

  
  Hip As I Wanna Be — Authority: 128
  I am concerned that I am facing the last year of Christmas magic with my children. At this point, my sons believe.  They believe with all of their little hearts. But there are some that are close to them who do not.  These children are constantly filling their heads with doubt.  And, yes, their faith is ...
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• Great Expectations

  
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  by Charles Dickens; narrated by Mark Smith for Librivox.orgI only read one Dickens book before I started on the “1000 books to read before you die” project.  And while A Tale of Two Cities is pretty great, in High School it was just a book to read.  But now I’ve read both Great Expectations and [...]
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• Ron Breznay’s Old Masters of Horror: Charles Dickens

  
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  For many people, Christmas isn’t complete without Charles Dickens’s “A Christmas Carol” – whether they read the story, go to the local theater to see a stage production, or watch one of the many movie versions.
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• The First Last Great Christmas Movie

  
  Christian Theist — Authority: 91
  If there is one subject or theme that filmmakers repeatedly fumble, it is Christmas. For every good Christmas film there is a Bad Santa , Elf , or The Santa Clause . Yet, for a generation that prefers cynicism over sentimentality and values objects and people only for what they can contribute to pleasure, ...
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• Subject:CiNEMA #201 - "Scrooged! A Christmas Carol Then And Now!"

  
  Popcorn 'N Roses — Authority: 122
  TC and Kim salute Dickens with this overview of the many different versions of A CHRISTMAS CAROL! Plus: a full full show this week with the latest news in Cinema Subjects; The first Awards of Awards season - nominees for the Spirit Awards, the Annie Awards, and the Satellite Awards, as well as winners of the Gotham ...
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• Review of “Coast to Coast: Vintage Travel in North America”

  
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  The cover shows Pulpit Rock in Utahs Echo Canyon, in a photochrom by William Henry Jackson. The strong economy by the end of the 19 th century, when North America was fully settled, led to affordable popular tourism. Not only wealthy people had the means to travel. Also the less well-off set out to discover the ...
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• A Christmas Carol | Theatre review

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Stephen Joseph, Scarborough One never tires of Charles Dickenss Christmas tales,but they are told so often it helps to have a little twist to distinguish yours from the crowd. Chris Monkss production carries the unique selling point of a suggestion that Scrooge may have been brought up only a few miles from ...
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• Treasure Island / A Christmas Carol | Theatre review

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Stephen Joseph theatre, Scarborough, and on tour Gripping as a pirates hook and timber-shiveringly scary, Robert Louis Stevensons 1883 tale of black hearts and buried gold is not for the lily-livered. Originally written as a serial for a childrens magazine, it ships all the classic cargo of a buccaneering adventure ...
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• Galveston Celebrates the 36th Annual “Dickens on the Strand”

  
  Old Salt Blog - a virtual port of call for all those who love the sea — Authority: 476
  I grew up in the Great State of Texas and visited the port city of Galveston on numerous occasions.  Nevertheless, I am not sure that I am fully capable of explaining this weekend’s holiday festivities in which bobbies, Beefeaters and the Queen herself will be on hand to recreate the Victorian London of Charles ...
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