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Dickens deserves concentration

At Nevada Appeal, Anne Macquarie makes a case for reading Dickens (and other authors) carefully, instead of "skimming internet-style."

Cobham with Dickens

Kent Online recommends a favorite walk of Dickens's.

R.I.P. Billie Whitelaw

The actress, who died just before Christmas at age 82, memorably played Madame Defarge in the 1980 U.S. television adaptation of A Tale of Two Cities.

(Screencap taken from YouTube)

The greatness of 'Great Expectations'

David Bowles lists Great Expectations as one of "12 Greats of the UK" in The Monitor.

Choose your own 'Drood' ending!

As highlighted in today's Daily Mail, The Drood Inquiry is now taking votes on whether Edwin is dead or alive, who marries who, and other important questions left hanging in The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Go here to vote -- and then come back and tell us how you voted!

I think Dickens would appreciate that

I was reading The Ghost and Mrs. Muir by R. A. Dick when I came across this passage in Part Four:

"We don't wish to blind ourselves to facts in these modern days," boomed the Bishop, "but neither do we wish our literature plasted over with the mud of sordid details."

"Personally," said Sir Everard Parminster, "I never read anything but the Times and Thackeray."

"And Dickens," suggested Eva, who was also of the party, in pale pink satin and her amethysts.

"No, madam, not Dickens," replied Sir Everard, "he wrote for the hoi-polloi, not for gentlemen."

The Great Dickensian Turkey War

Globe and Mail columnist Tabatha Southey thought she was writing an ordinary, "uncontroversial" column about Scrooge giving the Cratchits a turkey. She thought wrong. 

Happy New Year!

"So may the New year be a happy one to you, happy to many more whose happiness depends on you! So may each year be happier than the last, and not the meanest of our brethren or sisterhood debarred their rightful share in what our Creator formed for them to enjoy."

The Chimes

(H/T The Buzfuz)