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10 Best Victorian Detective Stories: Alternatives To Sherlock Holmes

The Guardian | James McCreet | Posted 01.06.2010 | Books

Read More: Edgar Allan Poe, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Bleak House, The Incendiary's Trail, Sherlock Holmes, Charles Dickens, Detective Stories, Books, Victorian Detectives, Detectives, Books News

Sherlock Holmes and his predecessor, Edgar Allan Poe's Auguste Dupin, were always fantasy detectives. Their powers of deduction often bordered on the ...

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Charles Dickens Biography Gives A Fascinating New Take On Author's Life

The Los Angeles Times | Tim Rutten | Posted 12.23.2009 | Books

Read More: Biographies, Great Expectations, Michael Slater, Authors, Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens Biography, Books, A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens Michael Slater, Books News

[I]f you're looking for just one literary life to give as a gift in this holiday season, you won't go wrong by choosing Michael Slater's " Charles Dic...

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"A Christmas Carol" Updated By Gerald Charles Dickens (VIDEO)

AP | Posted 12.22.2009 | Books

Read More: Gerald Charles Dickens, Dickens Descendent, Christmas 2009, Christmas, Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol, Books, Dickens, Christmas Carol, Books News

The Associated Press -- Gerald Charles Dickens, the great-great grandson of Charles Dickens, performs a one-man interpretation of 'A Christmas Carol' ...

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Charles Dickens' Toothpick Auctioned For $9,150

AP | Posted 12.15.2009 | Books

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NEW YORK — An ivory and gold toothpick once owned by Charles Dickens has sold at a New York City auction for $9,150. It was being offered by he...

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Short Stories for $3.99: the Atlantic/Kindle Deal is Not So New

Wednesday Martin | Posted 12.07.2009 | Books

Read More: Short Stories, Curtis Sittenfeld, Wilkie Collins, Publishing Industry, Wednesdy Martin, Kindle, Charles Dickens, E-Reader, Fiction Sales, Christopher Buckley, Atlantic Monthly, Contemporary Fiction, Changes in Publishing Industry, Victorian Fiction, Amazon, Reading, Edna O'Brien, Ereaders, Amazon Kindle, Ebooks, Books, Books News
Wednesday Martin

As of December 7, short stories by Christopher Buckley, Edna O'Brien (and by January Curtis Sittenfeld, and presumably many others) are available on Kindle, courtesy of a deal with the Atlantic Monthly.

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Book Review Roundup

Posted 11.30.2009 | Books

Read More: Mentors Muses and Monsters, Book Reviews, Stones Into Schools, Changing My Mind, Charles Dickens, Yours Ever, Reviews, Zadie Smith, Greg Mortenson, Too Much Happiness, Changing My Mind Zadie Smith, An Infinity of Things, Three Cups of Tea, Greg Mortenson Stones Into Schools, Charles Dickens Biography, Julie Powell Cleaving, Books, Alice Munro, Dear Granny Smith, Julie Powell, Cleaving, Books News

Here's your weekly book review roundup, in case you missed the weekend's reviews in the midst of your food coma. "Family Album", Penelope Lively The ...

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Are You Dickensian?

Matthew Pearl | Posted 11.24.2009 | Books

Read More: Charles Dickens, Dickensian, The Last Dickens, Reading, A Christmas Carol, Books, Dickens, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Books News
Matthew Pearl

The world around us has become more Dickensian lately. At least that's how it seems by the way the word circulates.

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Dickensian Slavery: The Real Expense of the Recession

James M. Lynch | Posted 11.12.2009 | Living

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James M. Lynch

We've headed back to the workhouse atmosphere of Dickensian England and the view of employee as dispensable "tool" has returned.

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No Time to Read? Go Short

Nina Sankovitch | Posted 11.06.2009 | Books

Read More: Edgar Allan Poe, Short Stories, Ernest Hemingway, O. Henry, Kurt Vonnegut, Reading, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Charles Dickens, Dave Eggers, Leo Tolstoy, Book Groups, Book a Day, Paul Auster, Annie Proulx, Reading All Day, Books, Christmas Carol, Kazuo Ishiguro, Books News
Nina Sankovitch

There is a solution to the time crunch: the beauty and brevity of a short story. For those with circumscribed time, short stories deliver, and deliver big time.

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Irving Penn, Twitter, and the Everydayness of Life

Adam Hanft | Posted 10.08.2009 | Style

Read More: Irving Penn, Charles Dickens, New York Times, Twitter, Metropolitan Museum, Andy Grundberg, Mark Twain, Starbucks, Raymond Carver, Style News
Adam Hanft

Twitphobes complain, "Do I really care if so-and-so picked up the kids or had to wait too long for a latte at Starbucks?" Maybe we do. Maybe we should. Maybe we can.

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Jarndyce vs. Jarndyce

Daniel Krotz | Posted 11.16.2009 | Books

Read More: Daniel Krotz, Berryville, Charles Dickens, Lawyers, Books, Bookseller, Bleak House, Arkansas, Books News
Daniel Krotz

The message of Bleak House is that a lawsuit is the end of reason and not as we presuppose, the beginning of reasoned argument.

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Back to the Classics, for Grown-ups

Sarah Schmelling | Posted 09.26.2009 | Books

Read More: Social Networking, Jane Austen, Books, Classic Literature, Charles Dickens, Judd Apatow, Facebook, Mark Twain, The Great Gatsby, Back to School, Books News
Sarah Schmelling

I recommend this assignment to those with the crisp copies of Moby-Dick and Brave New World on display probably just to impress people.

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Newspapers, Not Books, Are the Key to Engaging Budding College Students

Danny Groner | Posted 09.17.2009 | Media

Read More: College Students, Internet, Newspapers, College, Books, Novels, 9/11, Charles Dickens, Paradise Lost, Albert Camus, Herman Melville, The Plague, Edmund Spenser, Students, John Milton, Chaucer, Media News
Danny Groner

The acts of reading the newspaper and participating in conversation about current affairs are worth more to young college students than interpreting foreign works, no matter their messages.

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Obama's Second Hundred Days

Chris Weigant | Posted 09.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Michael Jackson, Supreme Court, Latina, Sessions, Burris, Empathy, A Tale of Two Cities, Al Franken, Reform, Dickens, Sarah Palin, Second 100 Days, Muslim, Latino, Sotomayor, Health Care, Analog Television, Birthers, Age of Foolishness, Budget, Democrat, Congress, Sanford, Democrats, Barack Obama, Transparency, Rahm Emanuel, First Hundred Days, Health, Sonia Sotomayor, Credit Card, Souter, Healthcare, Senate, Polls, Mark Sanford, Cap and Trade, Gates, President Obama, Cia, Speech, Second Hundred Days, Jeff Sessions, David Souter, Flu, Obama, Democratic, Iraq, Media, Scotus, Republican, Bush, Pelosi, Television, Iran, Gay Rights, Nuclear Weapons, Baucus, Russia, Beer Summit, Arlen Specter, Credit Card Reform, House, Specter, Photo Op, Msm, Beer, Franken, Worst of Times, Charles Dickens, Roland Burris, Gay, Mainstream Media, Waterloo, Best of Times, First 100 Days, Torture Photos, Chris Weigant, Palin, Cairo, Max Baucus, Bipartisanship, Torture, Politics News
Chris Weigant

Our look back at Obama's second 100 days will begin with a short overview, and then move on to the categories: "the best of times," "the worst of times," and "the age of (media) foolishness."

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Friday Talking Points [87] -- A Tale Of Two Houses

Chris Weigant | Posted 08.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: It Was the Worst of Times, Leadership, Blue Dog, A Tale of Two Cities, Reform, Dickens, Midotw, Nancy Pelosi, Rescission, Most Impressive Democrat of the Week, Press Conference, Pre-Existing Condition, It Was the Best of Times, Health Care, Reid, Dow, August, Bankruptcy, Democrat, Speaker of the House, Nbc, Congress, Democrats, Barack Obama, Brian Williams, Mddotw, Speaker Pelosi, Health, Health Care Reform, Blue Dogs, Harry Reid, Vacation, Republicans, Senate, Healthcare, Leader, Most Respected, President Obama, Obama, Democratic, Media, Friday Talking Points, Republican, Pelosi, Insurance, Baucus, Recess, 9000, Most Disappointing Democrat of the Week, Obstructionism, Speaker, Medical Bankruptcy, Chuck Todd, House, Msm, Charles Dickens, Milquetoast, Tale of Two Cities, Sob Story, Mainstream Media, Dow Jones, Chris Weigant, Jon Stewart, Walter Cronkite, Max Baucus, Djia, Dog Days, Politics News
Chris Weigant

Simply for acting like a leader this week, Speaker Pelosi wins the Most Impressive Democrat Of The Week award hands-down.

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The Best of Times and the Worst of Times

Stewart Acuff | Posted 07.27.2009 | Politics

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Stewart Acuff

We now measure economic progress not by whether unemployment is going down or up -- it's always going down -- but whether we lost more or fewer jobs than we lost the month before.

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Quiet Teacher: Part Four

Arthur Rosenfeld | Posted 07.05.2009 | Living

Read More: Novels, Serialization, Crime Thrillers, Martial Arts, Thriller, Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes, Charles Dickens, Living News
Arthur Rosenfeld

The final online installment of Arthur Rosenfeld's new novel, Quiet Teacher; a new thriller about the lives, loves, and action adventures of Dr. Xenon Pearl, neurosurgeon by day and vigilante by night.

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Little Dorrit Gives Wall Street a Haircut

Les Leopold | Posted 06.03.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Financial Crisis, Chrysler, Charles Dickens, Ponzi Scheme, Bernard Madoff, Barack Obama, Entertainment News
Les Leopold

As we know, certain hedge funds and investment groups are whining about getting only 30 cents on each dollar of the Chrysler debt they hold. In financial-speak, they are getting "haircuts."

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Brazil's Charmingly Un-PC President

Marilia Duffles | Posted 06.03.2009 | World

Read More: Charles Dickens, Economy, England, Brazil, Racism, G-20, London, Political Correctness, President Lula, World News
Marilia Duffles

Like President Lula, I am also Brazilian and occasionally engage in cross-cultural communication with a Brit. My husband.

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VIDEO: Arnold's Christmas Nightmare

Rick Jacobs | Posted 01.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush, Charles Dickens, Pete Wilson, Karen Bass, Maria Shriver, Courage Campaign, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Cheri and Naren Shankar, California, Holiday Season Commentary, Politics News
Rick Jacobs

2008-12-24-jacobs.jpgHere's a California Carol from the Courage Campaign in time for the Christmas Arnold wants to give us all.

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George Bailey and the Darkness on the Edge of Town

Tom Watson | Posted 01.24.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Charles Dickens, Obama, Bernard Madoff, It's a Wonderful Life, Bruce Springsteen, Christmas, Charity, U.S. Recession, Entertainment News
Tom Watson

It's A Wonderful Life has a dark, brooding heart and it openly questions in brutal terms the complaisance of small-town life just after the world's worst-ever conflict, a war that snuffed out tens of millions of people.

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A Dick Cheney Christmas Carol

Stu Kreisman | Posted 01.11.2009 | Style

Read More: Politics, Holiday Season, Ronald Reagan, Political Humor, George W. Bush, Christmas, Enron, Alberto Gonzales, Dick Cheney, Robert Novak, Charles Dickens, Vice President, Patrick Fitzgerald, Valerie Plame, Ken Lay, Style News
Stu Kreisman

An excerpt from Dick Cheney's Diary: We turned around and I was back in my bedroom at stately Cheney Manor. "Ronnie? Mr. President?" I whispered, but he was gone.

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How We Will Feel if Obama Wins

Lanny Davis | Posted 11.27.2008 | Politics

Read More: Constitution Slavery, John McCain, Charles Dickens, Founding Fathers, Harold Reese, Barack Obama, 2008 Presidential Election, Jackie Robinson, Emancipation Proclamation, Slavery, Abraham Lincoln, Racism, Racism Baseball, African-American President, Brooklyn Dodgers, A Tale of Two Cities, Politics News
Lanny Davis

On Nov. 5, if Obama is the president-elect, I think most people -- regardless of their party or ideology -- will take pride in the fact that America is a purple nation, not a red vs. blue one.

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The Beat (It) Goes On: A Conservative Stampede

Jerry Weissman | Posted 11.15.2008 | Media

Read More: White House, The Colbert Report, Heather Mac Donald, National Review, John McCain, Peggy Noonan, The Atlantic Magazine, Kathleen Parker, Charles Dickens, Presidential Campaign, Wall Street Journal, Brack Obama, Sarah Palin, Weekly Standard, Byron York, Journalism, National Review Online, Conservatives, George Will, David Freddoso, David Brooks, New York Post, William F. Buckley, Washington Post, Christopher Buckley, William Kristol, A Tale of Two Cities, Colbert Report, Media News
Jerry Weissman

The McCain-Palin ticket has had a severe impact on the writers of the right and sent them running for the hills. Witness the crescendo of the stampede.

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