Charles Dickens

5 Haunted Houses Where I'd Love to Stay the Night

Varla Ventura | Posted 05.23.2012

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Varla Ventura

Here are a five freaky places I'd stay the night if I could, possibly take up residence and hang out all night with those things that go bump in the night!

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PHOTOS: 9 Things You Didn't Know About Charles Dickens And 'Oliver Twist'

Ruth Richardson | Posted 05.17.2012

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Ruth Richardson

London, October, 2010. Local people trying to save an old building from demolition called upon me to help. I'm a historian, and years ago I'd written about a Victorian doctor who'd worked there.

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PHOTOS: These European Theme Parks Are Real?

Conde Nast Traveler | Posted 05.16.2012

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Conde Nast Traveler

No wonder there's a trace of lament in the Mona Lisa's smile.

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Many Famous Authors Started With 'Novel 101'

Dave Astor | Posted 05.20.2012

Read More: J.K. Rowling, Paul Bowles, Junot Diaz, Jhumpa Lahiri, Margaret Drabble, Charles Dickens, Margaret Atwood, Herman Melville, Carson McCullers, Novels, Emile Zola, J.R.R. Tolkien, Harry Potter, The Lord of the Rings, Debut Novels, Cormac McCarthy, Books News
Dave Astor

Creating a novel is tough. Until you get the hang of it, it can be hard to do the Proustian thing.

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Dicken's 'Tiny Tim' Gets Surprising 21st Century Diagnosis

Posted 03.06.2012

Read More: Charles Dickens, Video, Tiny Tim, Rickets, Chrismas Carol, Tuberculosis, Vitamin D, Russell Chesney, Science News

By: Stephanie Pappas, LiveScience Senior Writer Published: 03/05/2012 04:09 PM EST on LiveScience Plucky, ailing Tiny Tim is one of the most end...

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The Reporting Behind Two Centuries of Dickens' Impact

David Tereshchuk | Posted 04.10.2012

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David Tereshchuk

If we consider Dickens' career as a whole we can see that this secret lay to a large degree in his work as a factually observant and emotionally alert journalist.

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Life Spans of Literary Giants

Dave Astor | Posted 04.09.2012

Read More: Edith Wharton, Life Spans, Longevity, Charles Dickens, Famous Novelists, Authors Longevity, Author Deaths, Books News
Dave Astor

Charles Dickens' 200th birthday and Edith Wharton's 150th birthday got me thinking about how old famous novelists were when they died. How does the longevity of notable authors compare to the longevity of adults in general?

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Google Celebrates Charles Dickens' 200th Birthday

The Huffington Post | Courteney Palis | Posted 02.07.2012

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In an illustrative nod to the late and great English author Charles Dickens on his 200th birthday, Google's old-fashioned doodle of the day features s...

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PHOTOS: The Mistakes Dickens Didn't Want You To See

Nicole Villeneuve | Posted 04.08.2012

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Nicole Villeneuve

Unlike for some of his other novels, Dickens didn't use planning notes for Great Expectations. The pages of the manuscript are dense with corrections.

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A New Book on Poverty in China, 1900-1953: A Quick Q & A With Its Author, Janet Y. Chen

Jeffrey Wasserstrom | Posted 04.01.2012

Read More: History, Poverty, Shanghai, Beijing, Charles Dickens, Poor, World, China, Mumbai, Books News
Jeffrey Wasserstrom

Every society sees and treats its poorest members differently. For China specialists, the most important new publication on the impoverished is the first book by Princeton historian Janet Y. Chen.

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The Bible's Role in Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist

Michael Gilmour | Posted 03.10.2012

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Michael Gilmour

I found myself thinking about an aspect of Dickens easily overshadowed.. I refer to his subtle use of biblical literature.

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Serious Novelists Are Sometimes Surprisingly Funny

Dave Astor | Posted 03.06.2012

Read More: John Steinbeck, Jane Austen, Terry McMillan, Humor in Novels, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Charles Dickens, Emile Zola, Herman Melville, Mark Twain, Philip Roth, Books News
Dave Astor

Herman Melville's Moby-Dick is an epic tragedy that leaves readers shocked and awed. But, along the way, there are some delightfully funny interludes -- most notably the pre-voyage scene in which Ishmael and Queequeg end up in the same bedroom.

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Necessary Conversation Goes to the Dickens Fair

Necessary Conversation | Posted 02.28.2012

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David Lohr

Don't Be Cheap! A Cautionary Tale For The Holiday Tightwad

HuffingtonPost.com | David Lohr | Posted 12.23.2011

Read More: Holidays, Video, Weird News, Christmas, Charles Dickens, Lillian Rosenfeld, Harry Jelinek, Weird New York, Harry Jellinek, Weird News News

It certainly is nifty to be thrifty with the holidays upon us. After all, today's penny pinching could result in tomorrow's bountiful celebration. ...

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A Christmas Carol for 2011

Bob Burnett | Posted 02.22.2012

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Bob Burnett

It's been 168 years since Charles Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol to illustrate the horrific living conditions of the English poor and promote the true nature of Christmas. If Dickens were still alive, he'd be compelled to update his tale.

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PHOTOS: We Wish You A Scary Christmas, 'A Christmas Carol' Revamped

Posted 12.21.2011

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At some point in its history, Charles Dickens' 'A Christmas Carol' stopped being just a book and became a Christmas experience, a force of its own, br...

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The Little-Known Story Behind A Christmas Carol

Noah St. John | Posted 02.19.2012

Read More: A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens, Great Expectations, David Copperfield, A Tale of Two Cities, Christmas, Holidays, Books News
Noah St. John

In the fall of 1843, a British novelist found himself facing financial uncertainty. Although his previous novels had sold moderately well, his family bills were mounting and the mortgage was due.

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Does A Christmas Carol Really Need to be Rescued?

Lev Raphael | Posted 02.15.2012

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Lev Raphael

I bet you never realized A Christmas Carol was in danger, did you? And it's not from people supposedly trying to take "Christ" out of Christmas.

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A Modern-Day Christmas Carol

Dr. Judith Rich | Posted 02.12.2012

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Dr. Judith Rich

The story of A Christmas Carol is about what greed can do to the human soul and prices we all pay as a result. The greed that motivated Dickens' tale still permeates the collective consciousness today.

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In Praise of Shorter Classics: I Cut 13,000 Words From A Christmas Carol. And I'll Do It to More.

Jesse Kornbluth | Posted 02.07.2012

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Jesse Kornbluth

Books change over time, and over 170 years, A Christmas Carol has changed more than most. The story is a slow starter. There's a lot of extraneous description. So this former English major hacked 15,000 words out of Charles Dickens' immortal novel.

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The Party of Cain

Robert S. McElvaine | Posted 02.06.2012

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Robert S. McElvaine

The infamous words of the biblical Cain could readily serve as the slogan of today's Republican Party: "Am I my brother's keeper?" Their answer is identical with that implicit in the rhetorical question posed by Abel's killer. "Hell, No!"

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Saving a Bookshop With Local Love and Considerable National Help

Pearl Korn | Posted 01.14.2012

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Pearl Korn

This is a lovely, pre-holiday tale that could have captured the imagination of Charles Dickens. It is the story of a little, independent, different kind of bookshop that has served an artist and working-class community for 34 years.

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PHOTOS: Helena Bonham Carter Plays Literary Villain

Madeleine Crum | Posted 01.04.2012

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The sweetheart (or miscreant, depending on the flick) of period piece films, Helena Bonham Carter is making a silver-haired return to the silver scree...

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A Portrait of Charles Dickens as a Young Experimental Novelist

David Galenson | Posted 01.02.2012

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David Galenson

Like many experimental artists, Dickens never arrived at a single definitive masterpiece that embodied the essence of his contribution: he was an experimental artist who loved process and motion, and who never ceased developing.

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The Most Novels You've Read By an Author

Dave Astor | Posted 11.14.2011

Read More: J.K. Rowling, Barbara Kingsolver, John Steinbeck, Colette, Harper Lee, Ralph Ellison, L.M. Montgomery, Charles Dickens, Stephen King, Margaret Atwood, Herman Melville, Erich Maria Remarque, Emile Zola, Alexandre Dumas, Walter Scott, Willa Cather, Mark Twain, Cormac McCarthy, Jack London, Books News
Dave Astor

My list includes the authors' names, the number of novels I've read by each of them, and my three favorite novels (in rank order) by each of them. If you have different favorites by those authors, I'd like to hear about that.

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