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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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “charles dickens”

 

• The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (Tantor Unabridged Classics)

  
  Book Critic — Authority: 141
  I read criticisms of this book that it is not one of Dickens’ best. For me, it is up there with Great Expectations and David Copperfield as one of his most enjoyable novels (A Christmas Carol is a short story). The social axe that Dickens had to grind in this story is man’s injustice to children. Modern readers my ...
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• Review: Charles Dickens: A Life by Claire Tomalin

  
  Tolstoy is my Cat — Authority: 99
  The world is a veritable Dickens-fest at the moment, and there is zero point in fighting it. Actually, I wouldnt, because Im quite enjoying it, not least (smug) for the number of people around me who are happy to rhapsodise on the importance of Dickens whilst having never read a word of it: I know for a fact that ...
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• Willing to Write

  
  Everybody Means Something — Authority: 95
  Dickens at his Desk Sometimes ideas that move my thoughts along come totally unexpectedly. I recently read a review of a book on willpower by Baumeister and Tierney and bought it on impulse so I  obviously needed to read it. I expected it to shed some light on personal change of the kind I’d come across in ...
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• Dickens On Design

  
  Law & Humanities Blog — Authority: 106
  Here , from The Guardian.
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• A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens

  
  Into the Book — Authority: 100
  A Tale of Two Cities is not exactly an excellent book to pick up after a long absence. It’s a little difficult to follow and moves a little slower than “modern” books, but don’t let that detract you from this book at all. It has earned its place as one of my favorite Dickens novels yet. The year is 1775. ...
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• TRAVEL TIPS FOR BRITAIN AND FRANCE

  
  World Travelling Guides — Authority: 124
  BRITAIN The world’s many appropriate maze. Hampton Court Palace, East Molesey, Surrey; contains England’s oldest as well as many renouned maze. The intricacy is restrained by tall hedges as well as reinforced with vituperation to forestall cheating. Arrive by vessel from Westminster Pier or by sight from the ...
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• A Tale of Two Cities

  
  Book Critic — Authority: 141
  The more Dickens I read, the more impressed I become at his skill as a writer. No matter the form, be it short, long, or a monolith like some of his best works, Dickens excels at changing his style of characterization and plot to fit whatever mode he writes in. "A Tale of Two Cities" is one of his shorter novels, and ...
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• Great Expectations: Value-Priced Edition

  
  Book Critic — Authority: 141
  Another reviewer claims that you have to be at least 21 years old to read this book. Although I don’t think it should be “forced” on schoolchildren (they will only hate it) I read this novel when I was a child and I loved it. I have just re-read it now and I enjoy it all the more. This is my favorite novel by ...
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• Guardipedia: we answer your questions

  
  Computer & Internet - computer-internet.marc8.com — Authority: 139
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• A Dickens of a time: 1-18-12

  
  Bill's 'Faith Matters' Weblog — Authority: 108
  A lmost every Christmas season in Kansas City, the KC Repertory Theatre (why must we Americans always spell theater the English way?) puts on "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens ( depicted here ). Its a nice way to remind ourselves to "keep Christmas in our hearts," whatever exactly that means. And, ...
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• Good work, Dickens Translation Group. Here are your new assignments.

  
  JessicarulestheUniverse — Authority: 117
  Good thing we’re not translating from this manuscript. Manuscript pages of Great Expectations from Cambridge University Press/The Townsend Collection, Wisbech & Fenland Museum. Our Tagalog translation of Great Expectations seems to be going well so let’s continue. We want to recruit more volunteers for the ...
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• From the archive, 18 January 1883: The ghost story which inspired Charles Dickens

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 962
  Originally published in the Manchester Guardian on 18 January 1883 A few weeks ago we mentioned a ghost story that had attracted the special attention and interest of Charles Dickens. This was the narrative of Mr. Thomas Heaphey, the artist, who stated that he had seen the apparition of a lady thrice - first in a ...
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• Letters: Dickens in Rome

  
  top99news - breaking news from the world top newspapers — Authority: 163
  http://www.guardian.co.uk Letters: Dickens in Rome Last Sunday, just a few days after BBC2 had broadcast the newly completed version of Dickens’s Edwin Drood (TV review, 11 January), Carlo Fruttero, an Italian author most famous as the literary partner of Franco Lucentini, died at his home, aged 86. I ...
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• Letters: Dickens in Rome

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 962
  Last Sunday, just a few days after BBC2 had broadcast the newly completed version of Dickenss Edwin Drood ( TV review , 11 January), Carlo Fruttero , an Italian author most famous as the literary partner of Franco Lucentini , died at his home, aged 86. I was struck by a curious coincidence – and I quote from ...
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• Letter from London: ‘I Thought Freshfields Was a Supermarket’

  
  Above the Law — Authority: 641
  “I thought Freshfields [Bruckhaus Deringer] was a supermarket when I got here,” says Kirsty Grant, a fourth-year associate in the London office of Gibson Dunn & Crutcher . Happily, Grant — a fast-learner who got through law school in L.A. while working full-time during the day — quickly figured out that ...
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• Letter from London: ‘I Thought Freshfields Was a Supermarket’

  
  Above the Law — Authority: 641
  “I thought Freshfields [Bruckhaus Deringer] was a supermarket when I got here,” says Kirsty Grant, a fourth-year associate in the London office of Gibson Dunn & Crutcher . Happily, Grant — a fast-learner who got through law school in L.A. while working full-time during the day — quickly figured out that ...
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• Party Like the Dickens

  
  Metropolis POV — Authority: 520
  Charles Dickens 200th birthday is coming up soon and already, in England, theyre a bit sick of him and all the fuss, says Janine Pollack, head of the Rare Book Department at the Free Library of Philadelphia. But that didnt stop a British museum curator from asking her if they could borrow Dickenss wood desk for their ...
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• Welcome to our world – Dulwich Books

  
  Dulwich OnView — Authority: 107
  Edward Thomas beats Charles Dickens in the first big book award of 2012! Yes I know it feels like we’re all just recovering from too many mince pies but the book industry does not take much time off over Christmas….the judges for one of the biggest book awards: The Costas, felt that Matthew Hollis’s ...
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• Don’t they read Sherlock Holmes?

  
  Bookwitch — Authority: 110
  Don’t their parents? Because if they had – either of the above – today’s teenagers wouldn’t need to sit there and watch Sherlock on television, hearts in their mouths, ‘in case he dies.’ Honestly! Or could it be they didn’t watch in the company of their parents, and if so, where were they? It’s ...
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• If You Gonna Play, Then Be Prepared to Blow: Got Game?

  
  While We Can - A Photographic Blog — Authority: 102
  We spend our lives waiting for the moment to shine. Sadly, we most often “rust unburnish’d” from a lack of use, because people wait for the right moment when the universe aligns and calls them to the stage. Have you ever seen anyone called to the stage who has not been on stage before, who has not tossed caution ...
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