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Great Expectations, even greater characters

David Healey wrote 10 months ago: Click the image for an exciting recorded presentation! What a sense of accomplishment! I finally fin … more →

Tags: on writing, Great Expectations, Characterization, Pumblechook, Wemmick, Book Discussion Group

A Day Worth Celebrating: Charles Dickens' Bicentennial

M. Francisco wrote 1 year ago: It’s hard not to know that February 7th was the anniversary of Mr. Dickens’ birth, as Go … more →

Tags: texts, Charles Dickens, Literary criticism, The Pickwick Papers, Setting, Victorian Fiction, character

Dickenses

Aaron McConnell wrote 1 year ago: “A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profoun … more →

Tags: Family, Charles Dickens, Catherine Dickens, Raven

Most Famous Quotations in British Literature

Alexander Atkins wrote 1 year ago: Charles Dickens wrote over 34 books and hundreds of articles for his magazines. Many of his novels a … more →

Tags: literature, Charles Dickens, Christmas Carol, Famous Quotations, famous quotes in literature, God Bless Us Everyone, memorable characters, most famous lines in literature, Oliver Twist

Charles Dickens Bicentennial

Alexander Atkins wrote 1 year ago: Charles Dickens Bicentennial … more →

Tags: Posters, Charles Dickens, Charles Dickens poster, Dickens portrait, Dickens bicentenary, Dickens Birthday, Charles Dickens bicentennial, charles dickens tribute, charles dickens 2012

A reader's year: a personal rundown of 2011's best books

Ian McGillis wrote 1 year ago: Not intended as a definitive best-of list, what you see below should be taken instead as simply a ro … more →

Tags: narratives, Amitav Ghosh, Chester Brown, Louis Riel, Jeffrey Eugenides, madeleine thien, timothy taylor, Umberto Eco, Jean Claude Carrière

2012, what a year it is!

winnipegpublibrary wrote 1 year ago: I love new year! There’s freshness and renewal wafting through the air. Before us lie opportun … more →

Tags: Miscellaneous, Movies, Lyle @ WPL, War of 1812, 2012, new year, Olympics, Titanic

Charles Dickens' 2002 comments

travsd wrote 1 year ago: Dickens House/ Museum, snapped by moi, circa 1990 Today we celebrate the 200th birthday of one of my … more →

Tags: Books & Authors, Melodrama and Master Thespians, STEAMPUNK/ VICTORIANA, Charles Dickens, 200th Birthday, Dickens House, Martin Chuzzlewit

On the 200th Birthday of Charles Dickens

Christmas Place wrote 1 year ago: Charles Huffam Dickens was born on February 7th, 1812.  Many of you have had the opportunity to meet … more →

Tags: Inn, The Inn at Christmas Place, Gerald Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens

Happy Dickens Day: celebrating the Montreal-Boz connection

Ian McGillis wrote 1 year ago: Looking for a way to mark the February 7th bicentennial of the birth of the greatest novelist who ev … more →

Tags: narratives, Montreal Expos, Old Montreal, Claire Tomalin, Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol, Rasco Hotel, The Pickwick Papers, Oliver Twist

From the Great Dickens Christmas Fair Missive: Charles Dickens Bicentennial Celebrations

Cat Taylor (catnfidl) wrote 1 year ago: As well as being the entertainment director, I write the participant missive (newsletter) for the Gr … more →

Tags: Dickens Fair, Charles Dickens, Dickens 200, Bicentennial Celebrations, Westminster Abbey, Dickens Christmas Fair, dickensfair

Vintage Classics Dickens

rhacademic wrote 1 year ago: February 7th, 2012 will mark the 200-year anniversary of Charles Dickens’s birth and in celebr … more →

Tags: This Just In, Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol, Bleak House, Oliver Twist, Hard Times, Great Expectations, david copperfield, A Tale of Two Cities

For Dickens Fans It is the Best of Times

MaryTreacy wrote 1 year ago: For devotees of Charles Dickens whose idea of winter is curling up with a good book this is the best … more →

Tags: books and reading, Hennepin county library, Charles Dickens, Edgar Allan Poe, anatoly liberman, Friends of the University of Minnesota Libraries


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