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Charles Dickens
‘1984’ and ‘Great Expectations’ Taken out of NSW High School Texts
The NSW Education Standards Authority said the temporary removal of Orwell or Dickens comes with the addition of new authors.
December 23, 2024
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December 19, 2023
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Charles Dickens: ‘What Christmas Is as We Grow Older’
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‘A Christmas Carol’: The Story That Cheers Us All
The Goodman Theatre’s production of the classic holiday story is a spectacular theatrical event.
December 1, 2023
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Betty Mohr
Charles Dickens’s Quarrel, Carol, and American Reunion
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November 25, 2023
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Dustin Bass
‘Great Expectations’: A Coming-of-Age Tale Full of Wit and Pathos
Charles Dickens’s “Great Expectations” (1861) tells the coming-of-age story of Pip, an orphan boy. The narrative follows Pip’s ...
August 4, 2023
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Charles Dickens’s Short Story: ‘The Child’s Story’
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July 22, 2023
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Kate Vidimos
Theater Review: ‘A Sherlock Carol’: It’s Never Too Late to Change
NEW YORK —The fictional worlds of Charles Dickens and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle lovingly collide in playwright Mark Shanahan’s not-at-all ...
December 10, 2022
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Judd Hollander
Theater Review: ‘A Christmas Carol’: Chicago’s Perennial Favorite in its 45th Year
CHICAGO—It took him five weeks to write what he envisioned as a ghost story, and that it starts ...
December 5, 2022
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Betty Mohr
It’s That Time of Year: Surviving the Holiday Season
Ah, the winter holidays. That glorious time when hopes and wishes override past experience, when the forgetful again ...
November 23, 2022
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Jeff Minick
Christmas Is Not About Our Hubris
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December 20, 2021
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John Robson
Charles Dickens: How the Author’s Life Was Fictionalized After His Death
When Charles Dickens died on June 9, 1870, newspapers on both sides of the Atlantic framed his loss ...
August 17, 2020
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The Conversation
Charles Dickens and Christmas Today
Charles Dickens is largely responsible for our idea of Christmas today, more than 170 years after he published ...
December 19, 2019
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Lorraine Ferrier
Theater Review: ‘A Christmas Carol’
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December 4, 2019
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Judd Hollander
Death, Be Not Proud: Literary Lessons on Death and Dying
For over three decades, Reverend F. Washington Jarvis served as headmaster of Boston’s Roxbury Latin School, the oldest ...
July 23, 2019
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Jeff Minick
‘A Christmas Carol’ by Charles Dickens at Pierpont Morgan’s Historic Library
Charles Dickens took six short weeks to pen his iconic story “A Christmas Carol,” which tells the tale ...
December 21, 2018
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Dickens’s classic Christmas tale turns 175
Charles Dickens’s “A Christmas Carol” turns 175 years old this month. Dickens did public reading tours. The institution ...
December 20, 2018
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Elissa Michele Zacher
How Charles Dickens Redeemed the Spirit of Christmas
Though today regarded as the literary titan of the Victorian age, in late 1843 the 31-year-old Charles Dickens ...
December 21, 2015
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