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Charles Dickens biographer Claire Tomalin has this week claimed that kids these days can no longer read his "amazingly relevant" works because their attention spans are ruined by "dreadful" TV. So to celebrate Charles Dickens 200th birthday British tabloid The Mirror have boiled down his books to 140-character easily understandable tweets.If you haven't read any Dickens don't read the below, spoiler alerts!
Barnaby RudgeMystery murder: Essex nutter with a pet raven conned into rioting in London, dodgy MPs, couple of hangings, murder solved. Lovers wed. #Aah!The Pickwick Papers Nice rich old man Sam Pickwick & chums travel round the UK countryside and write about findings. Cue funny scrapes inc Mr P getting jailed.A Tale of Two Cities French Revolution, boozy lawyer defends Brit toff spy, falls for his lover & helps her save him from guillotine. #Bestof timesworstoftimesNicholas Nickleby Nick's dad loses money & dies. Nick, ma & sis have to live with horrid rich uncle. Posh ppl cruel, but Nick comes out on top #HappyeverafterA Christmas Carol Miserly Scrooge mean to all inc Bob C who's got sick son Tim. Spooked by 3 ghosts on Xmas Eve. Wakes changed man, buys big bird. #happyxmas!The Old Curiosity Shop Nell lives in shop wiv grampy who gambles to save for her future. Loses shop to mean moneylender. They flee, get hunted down - and die. Sob.The Adventures of Oliver Twist Orphan flees workhouse, snared by villain Fagin, gets caught pickpocketing, old gent takes pity, gets kidnapped then rescued. #Happyending!Our Mutual Friend Bloke due to wed to ensure fortune "drowns". Cash goes to working class Boffins. Blackmail, villainy then dead hero returns to #wed and winThe Mystery of Edwin Drood Orphan falls foul of opium-soaked choirmaster who obsesses over his betrothed. Dickens dies before he finishes the story. #hence the mysteryDavid Copperfield Mean stepdad sends Dave to work in London, he flees to live with Aunt, becomes a lawyer, falls for boss's girl and defeats enemy Uriah Heep.
Bleak House Saintly Ester pressured to marry man she doesn't love. Murder, inheritance battle and case of spontaneous human combustion. #tons of twistsHard Times Dour milltown teacher tries to reform circus lass while own kids go off rails & get into robbery. Local worker tries to dump his drunk wife.Little Dorrit Amy Dorrit & dad Bill live in debtor's jail. He's freed, she falls for pauper Arthur. Strange secret and villain with two names in the mix.Great Expectations Pip's a gent cos of cash windfall. Gets greedy, disowns family, discovers benefactor is escaped con. Mad Miss Haversham fries, #he gets girl
Dickens in numbers
1812 .. born Charles John Huffam Dickens on Feb 7, PortsmouthTen ..children with Catherine Thomson Hogarth, who he married aged 2412 ..age he started work labelling polish for 6s989 characters in all his stories put together325 ..adaptations for film & TV (so far!)Six ..number of weeks it took to write A Christmas Carol to get it ready for festive season58..the age he died, following a strokeCharles Dickens biographer Claire Tomalin has this week claimed that kids these days... more
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As you know, friday night was Children In Need night, and during that evening, sees this sneak preview of the upcoming Doctor Who Christmas Special called "A Christmas Carol" (no surprise it is based on a Charles Dickins novel). The Christmas special airs on Christmas Day.
Link to video (via the BBC's YouTube channel): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bEOrsJkijEAs you know, friday night was Children In Need night, and during that evening, sees... more
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News Updates On my tenth birthday my mother gave me a copy of 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'. Mr Charles Lutwidge (the archaic form of Lewis, just as "Mr Lewis Carroll"......News Updates On my tenth birthday my mother gave me a copy of 'Alice's... more
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Latest News Updates What a delight The Last of the Mr Thomas Hardy Players (Radio 4) turned out to be. Mr Julian Fellowes went to Dorchester to interview Mr Norrie Woodhall, a sharp 104-year old who knew Mr Thomas Hardy through his involvement with the local amateur-dramatics group.Latest News Updates What a delight The Last of the Mr Thomas Hardy Players (Radio 4)... more
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What a delight The Last of the Hardy Players (Radio 4) turned out to be. Julian Fellowes went to Dorchester to interview Norrie Woodhall, a sharp 104-year old who knew Thomas Hardy through his involvement with the local amateur-dramatics group.What a delight The Last of the Hardy Players (Radio 4) turned out to be. Julian... more
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The Marshalsea was a prison on the south bank of the River Thames in Southwark, now part of London. From at least 1329 until it closed in 1842, it housed men under court martial for crimes at sea, including those who had committed "unnatural crimes"; political figures and intellectuals accused of sedition or other inappropriate behaviour; and—most famously—London's debtors, the length of their stay determined largely by the whim of their creditors
Just like it is now, private prisons ran for profit! will society ever break free?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MarshalseaThe Marshalsea was a prison on the south bank of the River Thames in Southwark, now... more
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Who knew a book could be sexy, fashionable and stylish.....and also be 200 years old!
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Chances are, if you ever survived a high school English class you may have read a few if not all of these classic book. But chances are you hated them because your teacher was evil and made you write a 10-page paper on the meaning of every paragraph rather than letting you simply enjoy them. That’s why even if you have read the 10 classic novels after the jump, you should give them a re-read this summer. And if you haven’t read them...well, now is the time.
Click on our link to see our entire book list.
Chances are, if you ever survived a high school English class you may have read a few... more
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