As the U.S. engineers a second Gilded Age and Trump fantasizes about ballrooms and monuments, it’s time to revisit Tale of Two Cities.
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Tag Archives: Charles Dickens
It Was the Worst of Times: Gilded Age Redux
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Dickens and Our Rapacious Billionaires
“Our Mutual Friend” shows how immense wealth corrupts and brings unhappiness. Would that our rapacious billionaires would take note.
My Son, Second Generation Lit Blogger
In which I praise my son’s second generation literary blogging.
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The Power of Dickens’s Christmas Carol
My son Tobias Wilson-Bates on the power of Dickens’s “Christmas Carol” and how Dickens reinvented Christmas.
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DJT Goes Gatsby but Think Dickens
Trump’s weekend Gatsby-style party brings to mind another novel: Dickens’s “Tale of Two Cities.”
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DoJ’s Dickensian Assault on Justice
The Justice Department’s case against Comey brings to mind the Jarndyce case in “Bleak House.” Both have the effect of sapping time, money, energy and the will to live.
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Read for Fun, Not for the Test
Constant testing is sapping the joy out of reading. It’s also counterproductive as readers learn the most when they find reading fun.
Anti-Vaxxers, Today’s Modest Proposers
Satirist Alexandra Petri channels Dickens and Swift as she goes after Florida for not backing away from childhood vaccines.
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