Grumpycat8Jun 9, 2023
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"No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else."

Charles John Huffam Dickens died #OTD in 1870.

Dickens edited a weekly journal for 20 years, wrote 15 novels, five novellas, hundreds of short stories and non-fiction articles, lectured and performed readings extensively, was an indefatigable letter writer, and campaigned vigorously for children's rights, for education, and for other social reforms.

Charles Dickens at PG
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Show threadSibrosanJun 9, 2023

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Until after the end of my secondary education, I had avoided reading Dickens, as I always had the impression his books were melodramatic and corny.

Then, after reading Robert Hughes' The Fatal Shore, I decided to try Great Expectations.

And thus I discovered I had been misled all along by the watered down and sweetened representation of Dickens' works by The Walt Disney Company.

Show threadRandomAntJun 9, 2023
@gutenberg_org Regarding the two starving, pathetic waifs shown to Scrooge by the Ghost, "They are Man’s . . . And they cling to me, appealing from their fathers. This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want. Beware them both, and all of their degree, but most of all beware this boy, for on his brow I see that written which is Doom, unless the writing be erased.”
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Show threadLazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈Jun 9, 2023
@gutenberg_org Contemporary #Tories would fucking hate #Dickens, they would dismiss him as 'woke' but it's why his stories have lasted for so long.
Show threadGoblinPrincess Jun 9, 2023
@gutenberg_org Horrible Histories did a nice summary of his life in song: https://youtu.be/TBK-Qt8edxM
Charles Dickens: Miserable Song 🎶 | Vile Victorians | Horrible Histories

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Show thread(((Cindy Weinstein)))Jun 9, 2023
@gutenberg_org. Many moons ago, my mother insisted I read a #Dickens novel before reading what I really wanted to read -- #LoveStory. I chose #DavidCopperfield. Thanks mom for helping me to become someone who loves #reading (no matter what!) and #literature and writes about it for a living!