The Victorian WebApr 19
Ah, the dynamic author! Despite noting that depth is apt to be sacrificed to breadth in this wide-ranging study, our reviewer, Philip Allingham, can't help falling under the spell of Mark Conrad's "#Dickens The Enchanter"! https://victorianweb.org/authors/dickens/reviews/conrad.html
Show threadAuntifa eleinApr 14

@dresden

#currentlyReading #books #Dickens

Trudging through The Pickwick Papers and recognizing the travelogue of story form from Terry Pratchett to Don Quixote. Plots? Who needs a long plot when you can have lots of little ones?

In the audiobook, cracking up at the number of words containing "v" when Sam Wellington or his father expound on anything.

Ian RobinsonApr 1

The Complete Novels of Charles Dickens: Part Two audiobook is on sale to Audible Plus members for £3.05. It’s 244 hours long. 244 hours! It includes the following unabridged novels:

Dombey and Son, David Copperfield, Bleak House, Hard Times, Little Dorrit, A Tale of Two Cities, Great Expectations, Our Mutual Friend, & The Mystery of Edwin Drood.

Part 1 with his early novels is also on sale.

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Jody HughesMar 15

I was just reminded of this famous opening paragraph, of which most of us can only quote the first twelve words:

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way – in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.”

It’s the end of this sentence (for it is a beautifully constructed single sentence) that makes this a great opening. The first twelve words are almost meaningless without it.

#Dickens #SomewhatRandomMusings

utheolpeskeycoyoteMar 5
https://youtu.be/LZFzmt9_s7I?si=rwbK-b2Y7dXUKbLt
#conversationwithdeath
#songcatcher
#theartofmourning
#dickens #Kelly #mcmillon
Songcatcher - Conversation With Death - Dickens, Kelly, McMillon

A true mountain song. My mother and aunts were enthralled and talked about this type of line singing they heard when they were growing up. Not a typical subj...

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Show threadSvenja GuhrFeb 20
Building on these topics, we spent the following days drafting a new article and preparing our talk, “Soundful Dickens,” analyzing the fictional soundscape of the #Dickens Novel corpus (DNov). We’ll present it next week at the #DHd2026 Conference in Vienna.
#DigitalHumanities #BritishFiction
Show threadSvenja GuhrFeb 20
Building on these topics, we spent the following days drafting a new article and preparing our talk, “Soundful Dickens,” analyzing the fictional soundscape of the #Dickens Novel corpus (DNov). We’ll present it next week at the #DHd2026 Conference in Vienna. #DigitalHumanities #BritishFiction
Don Curren 🇨🇦🇺🇦Feb 15
“Oh for the pen of a #Dickens today, to make the bankers pause as their expensive leather shoes step over the homeless person huddled in the entranceway to their bank, and, yes, the tenured professors on their way to a well-endowed university” #liberalism open.substack.com/pub/timothyg...

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Wm.sonFeb 7

#Quotes #Dickens #LiftingBurdens

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it for anyone else. -Charles Dickens, novelist (7 Feb 1812-1870)

The Ghost MonkFeb 7
"They've such a passion for Liberty that they can't help taking liberties with her." - Martin Chuzzlewit on Americans (Dickens, sharp as ever. I appreciate the Statue Of Liberty wasn't constructed until after Dickens's death.) #BookWormSat #Dickens