In persuading me to read David Copperfield by Charles Dickens this recent autumn, a friend described that book thus: “It’s basically David Copperfield’s whole life story. That’s it. Just his whole life.” Some one thousand plus pages later (depending on which edition you read), it’s a pretty accurate description. Beginning just before his birth, with David telling […]
Top 5 Adaptations of A Christmas Carol
2014-12-31 · by ·
Charles Dickens’ classic novella A Christmas Carol was first published in 1843 and told the story of a bitter old miser named Ebenezer Scrooge, and his transformation into a gentler, kind soul after he is visited by three ghosts on Christmas Eve. The story boasts a variety of transcendent themes that have carried through generations […]
Review | Drood by Dan Simmons
2012-02-09 · by ·
With Charles Dicken’s 200th birthday just passed, perhaps this is an appropriate homage to his work and his life. “The Mystery of Edwin Drood” was Charles Dickens last novel, but he died before it could be finished. Dan Simmons picks up the mystery, not to solve and finish Dickens’ work, but to provide a back story, the real […]
