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Only handwritten draft of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The Daily Mail 05 Apr 2024
The letters chronicle the book's progression, including details of deliberations over the title and the author's happiness with the printing and illustrations ... This included works by Charles Dickens, F Scott Fitzgerald, and Edgar Allan Poe.
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Armando Iannucci Compares UK To 'Dickens Novel' In Takedown Of Government's Response To Poverty

Huffington Post 25 Mar 2024
The satirist Armando Iannucci lashed out at the government yesterday and compared the UK to a “Dickens novel” amid rising poverty rates ... One of Iannucci’s films includes the The Personal History of David Copperfield, based on Charles Dickens’ book.
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Armando Iannucci says level of child poverty ‘like Dickens novel’

The Times/The Sunday Times 24 Mar 2024
The Glaswegian, whose films include The Personal History of David Copperfield, based on the book by Charles Dickens, said ... Related articles. Thirty years in comedy and still in the thick of it. March 06 2022, 12.01am. Siobhan Synnot ... .
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Armando Iannucci says Government policies ‘are putting more people into poverty’

AOL 24 Mar 2024
The 60-year-old, whose films include The Personal History Of David Copperfield, based on the book of a similar name by Charles Dickens, said.
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One Day Ending Explained: Breaking Down Dexter’s Tragedy And The Power Of One Interaction In The Netflix Show

Cinema Blend 18 Mar 2024
Robert Viglasky/Netflix)How It Compares To The Book’s Ending  ... In the book One Day, the first section about the first day they spent together starts with a Charles Dickens quote from Great Expectations.
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Rites of Passage by Judith Flanders review – a brilliant account of Victorian Britain in mourning

The Observer 17 Mar 2024
Charles Dickens, who was opposed to displays of ostentation when it came to death, is one of the book’s presiding spirits, but numerous other literary figures appear, too ... Yes, every page – every paragraph – of this brilliant book is interesting.
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Hard Times: BBC lands itself in impartiality row after claiming Britain is still rife with...

The Daily Mail 10 Mar 2024
With his grisly descriptions of gruelling workhouses, the cruel orphanages and the soul-crushing debtors' prisons, Charles Dickens authentically portrayed the social evils of 19th Century England ... Charles Dickens in his study at Gadshill.
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Do you have a hidden fortune on your bookshelf? From The Hobbit to The Tale ...

The Daily Mail 10 Mar 2024
A true first edition of Charles Dickens's Christmas Carol, the tale of Scrooge and his three Christmas ghosts published in 1843, could be worth £33,000. Charles Dickens's Christmas tale of Scrooge and ...
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Impossible Monsters by Michael Taylor review — the Victorian war between science and religion

The Times/The Sunday Times 09 Mar 2024
This is a familiar tale ... Books ... BOOK OF THE WEEK. The Mystery of Charles Dickens by AN Wilson — the presiding monster of his age ... BOOK OF THE WEEK ... BOOK OF THE WEEK. The vicar’s wife whose ‘filthy’ book scandalised Victorian England ... .
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Author Barbara Kingsolver to speak at UVA Wise

Kingsport Times-News 05 Mar 2024
Kingsolver won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her book, “Demon Copperhead.” The book, set in nearby Lee County at the onset of the opioid epidemic, is a modern interpretation of Charles Dickens’ “David Copperfield.”.
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Charles Dickens teased teetotallers in newly found letter

The Times/The Sunday Times 29 Feb 2024
Charles Dickens was so fond of drink that he would put away a pint of champagne during intermissions in his talks and kept a cellar of 500 bottles at his home ... Antisemite? The real Charles Dickens.
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Maurice and Maralyn by Sophie Elmhirst review — surviving a shipwreck

The Times/The Sunday Times 25 Feb 2024
One morning when Maurice and Maralyn Bailey were adrift in the Pacific Ocean, sheltering in a flimsy rubber life raft, they heard a rush of air ... Books ... BOOK OF THE WEEK ... BOOKS ... BOOKS ... Liar? Adulterer? Antisemite? The real Charles Dickens ... .
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Campaigner’s great expectations: Save cobbles Dickens walked on

Islington Tribune 23 Feb 2024
THEY were the cobbles that Charles Dickens once walked on as he went about writing his book Oliver Twist, the enduring classic novel partly set in the historic square of Clerkenwell Green.
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The story of the Dolly Vardens, a 19th-century baseball team made up of Black women

Killeen Daily Herald 18 Feb 2024
She hoisted a baseball bat over one shoulder ... The name “Dolly Varden” comes from a Charles Dickens character in his 1841 novel "Barnaby Rudge." Dolly Varden’s outfits in the book inspired a boom of eponymous Dolly Varden fashion in Britain and the U.S.

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