Tag Archives: Charles Dickens

Dickens’s Evolving View of Christmas

Dickens didn’t so much invent Christmas–or even reinvent it–as supercharge it. “A Christmas Carol” was key in the endeavor.

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Irresponsible Coal Companies

Coal miner owners have been leaving behind messes for others to clean up. Dickens reports something similar in “Hard Times.”

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Immersed in Krook’s Rag and Bone Shop

Going through my mother’s possessions is like a trip into Krook’s Rag and Bone shop in “Bleak House.”

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Loving Lit, the Road to Well-Being

In “Rules of Civility,” Towles compares reading Dickens to that first cup of morning coffee.

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On Telling the Homeless to “Move On”

People want refugees and the homeless to be out of sight, out of mind. Like society with Jo in “Bleak House.”

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Donald Trump Is Our Harold Skimpole

Dickens’s Skimpole reminds one of Trump in the way he leeches off other people and always avoid’s responsibility.

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Is Twitter Headed for Bleak House?

Twitter’s case against Musk is headed for Chancery Court, bringing up memories of Dickens’s “Bleak House.”

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The Top Ten Dickens Characters

Professor Tobias Wilson-Bates names his top ten favorite Dickens characters, along with brilliant summations.

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The Fearsome Georgia Bulldogs

To honor the world champion Georgia Bulldogs, I compare them to the bulldog (actually, bull terrier) in “Oliver Twist.”

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