I Enjoy Charles Dickens

The Old Curiosity Shop, 184..something. Once upon a time i searched for old books, went everywhere, flea markets, yard sales, auctions.... it was a hobby looking for first additions. I went to an old farm auction... rows and rows of...

I was fourteen whn i was first introdused to this wonderful piece of Charlas Dickins, it was a buk in my elder sis's honor course and she urged me to read it on her behalf so tht i cud tell her its story....!!
it was a little heavy whn...

I have just waded through Claire Tomalin's biography of Dickens and wondered if anyone else has read it. I thought it was very good and certainly very comprehensive, charting both his life and summarising and commenting on every one of...

When I was in 6th grade my one of my male friends committed suicide.We didnt talk a lot but it was enough we considered each other friends.That same year I started having anxiety attacks.Also my best friends uncle moleste me.I knew him...

There are still a few Dickens books I've yet to read - Barnaby Rudge, Old Curiosity Shop, Pickwick Papers - but I've read the others, some more than once. It's so difficult to choose his best work, but I think if you twist my arm I'd...

Many years ago I stumbled upon a book of Dickens as I taking a creative writing course in junior college and would like to know if anyone else has reading this book by Dickens called ,"Tales from Grandpa's Chair"..or am I confused again...

I don't know whether I enjoyed the movie more!
The movie is an animated retelling of Charles Dickens' classic novel about a Victorian-era miser taken on a journey of self-redemption, courtesy of several mysterious Christmas apparitions...

Charles Dickens is just one of those writers that wrote with such creative integrity you believe the characters as they are discribed.  Too often today's writers are stuck in a rut of cliche charaters that you never truly believe...

Today is the 200th anniversary of Dickens' birth.

Dickens is a clever writer and all of his works are literary classics his works like, A Tale of Two Cities, A Christmas Carol, and my favorite Great Expectations. Dickens is without a doubt one of the greatest writers of all time.

Bookworm or just starting, definitely read his book. I feel each of us has our inner Charles Dickens. his books are something we can relate to and reflect on our childhood memories.

"Now, what I want is, Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts: nothing else will...

A few Christmas ago my entire family read and performed the Christmas Carol. It was awesome and hilarious. The thing that I remember the best was my recently deceased grandad being Scrooge and my father playing his nephew. My dad as the...

The railway signal-man of the title tells the narrator of a ghost that has been haunting him. Each spectral appearance precedes a tragic event on the railway on which the signalman works. The signalman's work is at a signalbox in a...

...Enjoy Dickens' work, because he was a damn good writer, period. I adored the Christmas Carol story, but Great Expectations was my favorite book of his, because I could totally relate to the angst in that story, and in his other...

I want to read Great Expectations.It's on my reading list.