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Tag Archives: Charles Dickens
“in your sphere”
By Chapman & Hall – Heritage Auction Galleries, Public Domain, Link Had Trotty dreamed? Or, are his joys and sorrows, and the actors in them, but a dream; himself a dream; the teller of this tale a dreamer, waking but … Continue reading
Posted in Literature, Victorianism
Tagged Charles Dickens, Chirstmas, Holidays, New Year's Eve, Resolutions, Victorianism
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“Romantic and Familiar”
I don’t tend to like most Dickens adaptations. Or rather, most Dickens adaptations are fine, they often contain excellent casts of veteran character actors in beautiful costumes, but they always ring a little hollow for me. That is, of course, … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptation
Tagged Adaptation, Alphonso Cuarón, Charles Dickens, film, Victorianism
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The Audacity of Cities
The T rattled down Beacon Street, that electrical whirr driving into a higher pitch as it accelerated. With a clatter and a dinging of its bell it slowed and then stopped: the lurching progress of the train when it is … Continue reading
Posted in Nature and Culture
Tagged Charles Dickens, Nature and Culture, Victorianism
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