Tag: Charles Dickens
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Biographer: ‘we need Dickens more than ever’
This Christmas, a new TV drama will bring together Charles Dickens’s most beloved characters. It’s about time, says his biographer. Can art really change people’s minds?
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Forecasters fuel hopes for a white Christmas
While the Met says it cannot be certain, there is a chance that Britain may see a relatively rare white Christmas this year. How and why is snow part of our Christmas tradition?
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Great expectations for Dickens birthday bash
Britain’s greatest Victorian novelist was born exactly 200 years ago. He was a literary celebrity with hordes of adoring fans but, if he was alive today, would he still be writing books?
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New book offers love lessons from literature
Released this week to critical acclaim, a new book called ‘Much Ado About Loving’ distils the works of the world’s literary greats into useful relationship advice for modern readers.
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Great novelist celebrated against his dying wishes
Charles Dickens forbade any memorials or statues of himself. But as the 200th anniversary of his birth approaches, plans for a monument are afoot. Should we let him rest in peace?