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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Dickens’s Evolving View of Christmas
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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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Loving Lit, the Road to Well-Being
In “Rules of Civility,” Towles compares reading Dickens to that first cup of morning coffee.
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.
Is Twitter Headed for Bleak House?
Twitter’s case against Musk is headed for Chancery Court, bringing up memories of Dickens’s “Bleak House.”
The Top Ten Dickens Characters
Professor Tobias Wilson-Bates names his top ten favorite Dickens characters, along with brilliant summations.
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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