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Charles Dickens’s Travel Writing Desk and Cutlery to Auction
28 Apr 2025 11:04 GMT
… Artifacts sale in May is Charles Dickens’s ornate travel writing desk … ;s pet-name for the novelist, as is recalled in the …
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What’s in a book? Often, a good friend
29 Apr 2025 19:53 GMT
… , you’re with the author, you’re in another … reading aloud to each other.
Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol was … ’s Yorkshire Dales, these books offer something uniquely calming, … her freshman seminar, “Our Favorite Books” (FSEM 100). Students nominate …
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DeSantis signs 8 bills, Trump nominates Waltz to U.N. post, and Sanford combats a bug swarm
01 May 2025 21:11 GMT
… ’s classic musical based on Charles Dickens’ novel, Oliver Twist. The Tony and …
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'It was the best of times, it was the worst of times….' What the Dickens does it mean?
01 May 2025 14:08 GMT
… literary journal edited by Charles Dickens, published the opening installment of … line, which was first published 166 years ago, might as … the opening lines of the novel—prosperity shadowed by poverty, … great lines, like great books, invite many readings.)
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The Psychology of Trump Meeting Zelensky at Pope's Funeral
30 Apr 2025 22:01 GMT
… TMT after being inspired by books written by the late anthropologist … ;
But did the great Victorian novelist, Charles Dickens, also anticipate these most recent …
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The French Revolution, remixed
30 Apr 2025 21:07 GMT
Compressing a 450-page classic novel into a two-act play … . Brendan Pelsue’s adaptation of Charles Dickens’s 1859 epic A Tale …
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This Month’s Favorite Thrillers Features London Pickpockets, Deadly Cover-Ups, Paranormal Mayhem and More!
30 Apr 2025 19:45 GMT
… Time: A World War II Novel by David Baldacci
David Baldacci … his latest book, Strangers in Time: A World War II Novel (Grand … feels conjured straight out of Charles Dickens, a masterful mix of the … Time” with a young adult novel, because it’s not. It …
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Film Shorts // April 30 – May 6, 2025
30 Apr 2025 19:50 GMT
… version of Herman Koch’s novel The Dinner, this Korean drama … Oscar Isaac) being narrated by Charles Dickens (voiced by Kenneth Branagh) for … Based on Shannon Pufahl’s novel, this movie takes place in … . The movie loses the book’s neat structure of alternating …
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Michael Ledger-Lomas: Hairy Teutons
30 Apr 2025 17:38 GMT
… to a policeman as ‘the author of The Earthly Paradise’ – … as not a patch on Charles Dickens. Tolstoy was surprised in … his translations and his fragmentary novel of contemporary life. There … his letters –though his published correspondence runs to four hefty …
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“A tale of two City Halls”
30 Apr 2025 16:02 GMT
With apologies to the great novelist, Charles Dickens, and also to my wonderful …