#Dickens

A classic hip-hop retelling: A Tale of Two Rhymes 😆

@bookstodon @humour @classics

#Funny #Book #Books
#Dickens #BustaRhymes #Retelling
#Bookworm #Bookwyrm #Bookstodon #BookLove #BoostingIsSharing

https://youtu.be/IOhMFi_BtWc
"Captain Murderer" by Charles #Dickens. A true "Tale of Terror", and flash flash fiction before flash fiction was a thing.
Read by Yours Truly.

Until we look at the times, were all both perpetually bored and having an endless blast... 😆

@reading @humour @bookstodon @speculativefictioncomedy

#Reading #Readers
#Dickens #And #Schrodinger #ThrowAParty #WritingPromt
#ReadingCommunity #Bookwyrm #Bookstodon #BookLove #BoostingIsSharing

Debatte um Männlichkeit: Subjekt vs. Objekt
Debatte um Männlichkeit: Erziehung und Bildung sind durch verschiedene Ideologien geprägt.

(iz). Am 1. Juni feierte der rechtsgerichtete amerikanische Kommentator Matt Walsh den Jahrestag seines Dokumentarfilms „What is a Woman?“, indem er ihn der Öffentlichkeit kostenlos über Twitter zugänglich machte. Die
https://islamische-zeitung.de/debatte-maennlichkeit-subjekt-vs-objekt/
#Bildung #Debatte #IZPlus #Dickens #mnnlichkeit #objekt #Subjekt

What the Dickens? Our Mutual Friend (my favourite book ever) - YouTube. Haven’t watched this video yet, but saving for later. Our Mutual Friend is easily my favourite Dickens novel, and one of my absolute all time favourite novels ever. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKIG2UPlflU #Dickens #CharlesDickens #Literature #VictorianLiterature #Fiction #Novels #Books #Reading #Bookstodon #Booktube #FavouriteBooks #FavoriteBooks #NineteenthCentury

Here is #Dickens sounding like he could have written this yesterday:

"Surely there never was such fragile china-ware as that of which the millers of Coketown were made....They were ruined, when they were required to send labouring children to school; they were ruined when inspectors were appointed to look into their works; they were ruined, when such inspectors considered it doubtful whether they were quite justified in chopping people up with their machinery; they were utterly undone, when it was hinted that perhaps they need not always make quite so much smoke."

#labor #inequality #economics

#Nature #Quotes #Literature #Writers #Earth #Books #Dickens

Another tiny portrait bookmark from a few days ago. All will be for sale in a few weeks, with profits going to a local food bank.
#dickens #author #portrait #bookmark #literature #mastoArt

Charles #Dickens y la música 📚📙🎶🎼🖌️https://letrasprestadas-clubpickwick.blogspot.com/2020/08/charles-dickens-y-la-musica.html Después de más de siglo y medio de su fallecimiento te propongo un paseo por parte de la obra de Charles Dickens y su poco conocida relación con la música… ¡y la #Opera!. Con #Zweig #TheVillageCoquettes

Charles #Dickens y la música 📚📙🎶🎼🖌️https://letrasprestadas-clubpickwick.blogspot.com/2020/08/charles-dickens-y-la-musica.html Después de más de siglo y medio de su fallecimiento te propongo un paseo por parte de la obra de Charles Dickens y su poco conocida relación con la música… ¡y la #Opera!. Con #Zweig #TheVillageCoquettes

Charles #Dickens y la música 📚📙🎶🎼🖌️https://letrasprestadas-clubpickwick.blogspot.com/2020/08/charles-dickens-y-la-musica.html Después de más de siglo y medio de su fallecimiento te propongo un paseo por parte de la obra de Charles Dickens y su poco conocida relación con la música… ¡y la #Opera!. Con #Zweig #TheVillageCoquettes

Kudos to #CharlesDickens for contriving a way to expand a small story he had previously published. The note preceding The Portrait Painters Story explains this ballsy #writer move. Also pictured, the first page of the shorter tale in Four Ghost Stories, and the cover of The Complete Ghost Stories of Charles Dickens, edited by Peter Haning in which both stories appear.

#literature #dickens #ghoststories #gothic

Charles #Dickens y la música 📚📙🎶🎼🖌️https://letrasprestadas-clubpickwick.blogspot.com/2020/08/charles-dickens-y-la-musica.html Después de más de siglo y medio de su fallecimiento te propongo un paseo por parte de la obra de Charles Dickens y su poco conocida relación con la música… ¡y la #Opera!. Con #Zweig #TheVillageCoquettes

@molly0xfff

I think I love you.

#Dickens #2023

I've just finished _Demon Copperhead_ by Barbara Kingsolver, and it was great. Hard work, and painful to read in parts, but a really good book.
Here is my review: https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/a26035a8-0fc0-4fba-aec2-c65dd4cef575
#books #review #DemonCopperhead #Kingsolver #Dickens #DavidCopperfield #poverty #USA #appalachian #Bookstodon

Rather stunned earlier today at the passage I read in #LittleDorrit, where #Dickens takes a pointed and extended jibe at #British #xenophobia and #racism against foreigners. I’ll have to gather some more thoughts about this, and will probably blog about it in the coming days. It felt so timeless, and so Brexity. Dickens is hardly blameless in racist attitudes. His oft #antisemitism is notable. But oh, this was on point. #Brexit #Novels #VictorianLiterature #Literature #CharlesDickens #Britain

Wow! Suddenly this place is jumping! Welcome! #HigherEd #edutooter #academia #assessment #UDL #EdEquity #catsofmastadon #Dickens

Very much an “I see what you did there, Barbara Kingsolver” moment at this point in “Demon Copperhead”.

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@bookstodon
#Books #Bookstodon #BarbaraKingsolver #DemonCopperhead #Dickens #Salinger

Yeah. So. This was absolutely astonishing. Catch it if you're able to.

#Theatre #EddieIzzard #London #Dickens #Books #Literature

[ Barbara Kingsolver: ‘Rural people are so angry they want to blow up the system’ | Barbara Kingsolver | The Guardian ]
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/jun/16/barbara-kingsolver-rural-people-are-so-angry-they-want-to-blow-up-the-system #Novel #Dickens #Appalachian

@Missrdevine That was #Dickens' early draft, but sadly his #RWNJ editor made him change it.

#Whimsy #ClimateCrisis #CharlesDickens

Today in Labor History June 11, 1381: Wat Tyler’s Rebellion was going strong. Tyler led a Peasant revolt in England, from May to June 15, 1381. The uprising began in response to a new poll tax. However, Tyler called for property to be held in common and equality for all. The peasants also wanted the right to choose their employer, rather than to be tied to a specific landlord. The rebellion contributed to the end of serfdom.

Tyler’s Rebellion has been referenced in many works of music and literature. He is the protagonist in Pierce Egan the Younger's novel “Wat Tyler, or the Rebellion of 1381 (1841),” a radical text published as a propaganda piece during the Chartist movement, as an argument for a republican government. Charles Dickens invokes Wat Tyler’s name in “Bleak House” (1853). Tyler also appears as a sympathetic hero in “A Dream of John Ball” (1888) by the socialist writer William Morris. And he appears in Melville’s “Redburn” and in Twain’s “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.”

#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #WatTyler #rebellion #peasant #revolt #landlord #england #literature #fiction #writer #author #socialism #melville #MarkTwain #Dickens @bookstadon

Father was full of this anecdote when all met at breakfast the next morning.'

Happy #Caturday!

#dickens #kittens #readingbycandlelight #digitalart #aiart

@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!

@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.

TIL, thanks to reading Dickens' David Copperfield, that the past participle of the verb, 'chide', used to be 'chid'. And now I want to bring it back!

"She gently chid me for being rude"
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#etymology #words #dickens

And all over the world, the old literature, the popular literature, is the same. It consists of very dignified sorrow and very undignified fun. Its sad tales are of broken hearts; its happy tales are of broken heads.
-G K Chesterton (1906) "Charles Dickens"

#Medieval #Story #Narrative #Comic #Tragic #Dickens #History #GKChesterton #Quotes
http://www.gkc.org.uk/gkc/books/CD-2.html#X

Has anyone ever informed #republican lawmakers that Charles #Dickens didn’t write instruction manuals?

#childlabor
#bodilyintegrity
#malnutrition
#healthcrisis

#humour #Dickens #schrodinger

I went for an after-work bike ride with my friend this week. A beautiful ride through the country lanes of Kent.

We stopped at St James' church, Cooling. Charles Dickens saw these tiny graves and used them in Great Expectations as a basis for the "lozenge" shaped graves of Pip's brothers and sisters. Very moving.

#Cycling #BikeTooter #Dickens #GreatExpectations

As #Dickens put it in #HardTimes, industry is always so "fragile" that whenever we try to regulate them they scream they'll be "ruined", when all we typically ask is that they be held "accountable for the consequences of any of [their] acts."

#Regulation of the #fishing #industry, for example, tries to address consequences of their actions such as this. Is that so wrong?

#MarineMammalRescueDay #MarineMammal #ElephantSeal #Entanglement

photo by Marjorie Cox © #PointReyes #NationalSeashore

'We are here to discuss her new one-woman show, which she tells me was born out of fear: :blobnom:

whenever she is frightened of something, she makes a point of running towards it. Her aversion to flying is what prompted her to train as a pilot, and it is a fear of literature that will now find her alone on stage each night performing Great Expectations.'

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2023/apr/26/suzy-eddie-izzard-dickens-great-expectations-hamlet

#literature📚 to #drama 🎭 #dickens #EddieIzzard

Just wrote a note to myself to start this chapter with competing readings of corpses in #Otranto and Bleak House. #Dickens

Asylum seeker barge plan would face legal challenge

The plan is to house in a barge off Portland - which is bleak!

More Great Expectations than Bleak House - #Dickens would have a field day lambasting the current crew in power & their treatment of the disadvantaged

Portland residents already had to suffer a prison in their midst - that's how #toriesOut treat poorer communities - when they open a migrant centre in the Cotswolds I might beleive they are sincere in governing for all
#toriesOut

@ichbindabomb Have to add the most brilliant anglophile show at the moment -- Slow Horses. Crackling writing, great cast (Gary Oldman & Kirstin Scott Thomas) and breakout performance (Jack Lowden). If Dickens was still around, he could have created these characters. (Also, yeah, I agree The Bodyguard is good.)

#SlowHorses #Dickens #MickHerron #GaryOldman #KirstinScottThomas

A rainy night in #London featuring the Old Curiosity Shop - a genuinely old building but from what I've read its claim to fame is dubious.

Find this here: https://mark-tisdale.pixels.com/featured/standing-outside-the-old-curiosity-shop-mark-e-tisdale.html?product=art-print

Sharing always kindly appreciated - this is how I pay ye olde billsy. 😉 ⭐

#DigitalArt #Painting #WindowFriday #FensterFreitag #RainArt #LondonArt #British #Dickens #CharlesDickens #Dickensian #MastoArt #FediArt #ArtMatters #AYearForArt #MarkOnArt

#OliviaColman is magnificent and terrifying in #GreatExpectations.
#television #Dickens

I've always had this vague memory of seeing a Charles Dickens manuscript in a small town museum as a child. And literally NOBODY mentioned it, even my English teacher when I was studying the same book for O Level.
But it turns out Wisbech museum does have the full original manuscript for Great Expectations, and I've wasted decades not telling people this cool fact. #Wisbech #Dickens #GreatExpectations

The new FX/BBC adaptation of Great Expectations is dark and gritty and muddy and full of four-letter words and lit by a single blue flashlight, with Matt Berry playing The Exposition in his Matt Berry-est voice and Olivia Colman as Miss Havisham chewing the scenery like she's in a French and Saunders sketch.

But honestly? Most of the college kids to whom I used to teach the novel had some vision of #Dickens out of a Muppet Christmas Carol, and a little period squalor never hurt anyone.

I'm greatly indebted to the swivel-eyed loons having conniptions about the latest #BBC adaptation of #Dickens.

I hadn't heard of it and would probably not have bothered without their "recommendations".

Having watched the first episode, I now have #GreatExpectations(!) for the rest of the series.

UK asylum plans: Plans on future of migrant hotels to be announced

Apparently the less-than-lovely #SuellaBraverman wants to use disused ferries instead - so we are slipping back to #Dickens early 19th C hulks to house #migrants ......

Just because the #sunak govt is competent does not makes it less evil than that of the #vacuumOfIntegrity

#toriesOut
#labour

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-65074419

I hated #Dickens at school. I’ve since realised that he probably wasn’t writing for coerced 15 year olds.

Today I have to grade 14 more essays; we begin my last M1 course on Death and Health in #Dickens; and I need to prep for my undergrad classes tomorrow where we’re reading #Gaskell and #Edgeworth

Here's my latest for the Arts Fuse: a review of Nick Hornby's "Dickens and Prince." I love these kinds of unlikely comparisons--they shake loose our regular categories of thinking about the arts. What pair would you select for a comparison book like this?

#prince #charlesdickens #dickens #nickhornby
https://artsfuse.org/269868/book-review-dickens-and-prince-together-again/

The story of Little Emily from David Copperfield is ripe for a feminist retelling, à la Wide Sargasso Sea. #Dickens #VictorianLit #fiction

Work in progress #thesignalman #illustration #dickens #ghoststory

Since I was teaching orthogonal #polynomials (OPs), I asked my class whether they’d read Great Expectations by #Dickens, which you may remember had APs :)

One advantage of reading David Copperfield and Demon Copperhead at the same time is that when one gets too sad/intense I can switch to the other. About halfway through both at this point. Anyone know a good essay comparing the two? #amreading #VictorianLit #Dickens #litfic

@historygirllfc @bookstodon
If you like dystopian fiction, definitely try 1984, as well as Huxley's Brave New World, and Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale.

But the books that got really got me into classic English #literature were Wilkie Collins' The Moonstone and The Woman in White. They're both detective stories, and great fun. After that, perhaps some #Dickens? My favourites are David Copperfield and a Tale of Two Cities. Then, who knows? You may even enjoy Austen now 😊
#Bookstodon

For Dickens's birthday, a review of Great Expectations from Girl With Her Head in a Book:

https://girlwithherheadinabook.co.uk/2023/02/review-great-expectations-charles-dickens.html

#book #review #dickens #bookstodon
@bookstodon

Charles #Dickens was able to assume that his readers would possess a wide range of knowledge, ranging from a phenomena that occurs in decomposing seafood to Euclidean geometry. How many of us could be said to be able to explain such things without turning to our ubiquitous little digital distraction boxes.

#bookstodon @bookstodon #literature #reading #novel

https://www.wellreadnaturalist.com/2023/01/the-past-and-future-of-common-knowledge/

A #DigitalArt #Painting that I started back in December and recently finished. I don't often do portraits so it took me longer to get there. What made me think of it was my annual viewing of #CharlesDickens #AChristmasCarol - and yes, I've read it and his other work too but an embarrassingly long time ago.
#Authors #Writers #Dickens #Literature #MastoArt #FediArt #ArtMatters #MarkOnArt

Prints etc. on my site: https://mark-tisdale.pixels.com/featured/cosmic-charles-dickens-a-portrait-of-the-star-crossed-writer-mark-tisdale.html

I was quite disappointed to learn that "gaol" is not pronounced somewhere between "goal" and "ghoul" as I thought it was, but--unsurprisingly--like "jail" 🤨

And here I thought that "gaoler" had a nice ring to it! A lichen on wet prison walls ring to it, a disease-ridden foggy air to it. But, no ... plain old "jailer" ...

English! 😆

#amreading #amwriting #WritingCommunity #MastoWriters #Dickens

#Reading “The Chimes” from #Dickens’ #Christmas #Books has shown me how much I, due to my familiarity with the characters and events depicted in those novels of his with which I am familiar, have overlooked the truly biting social commentary of which he was capable. Coming to a previously unread, and indeed previously unknown to me, work of his, the raw power of his social criticism is undiluted by familiarity and strikes with staggering force. #bookstodon @bookstodon #novels

Wonderful folk of #Mastodon
Have seen what a fab community of folk are over here on the various instances!

I wondered if you'd help show just how AMAZING you guys are & show the world that its not always the big sites that do the most good! In 2020 @CatherineRussell2 read in parts (see above) #AChristmasCarol by #Dickens for @Crisis_UK for the #homeless & made a bunch thanks to #Twitter
We're hoping b4 the end of the yr her new mastodon home can help raise a bunch more https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/catherine-russell16

New #Introduction! Instead of a list of some things I am, here's a list of some things I post about.

#Journalism #Writing #Editing #Style #HigherEd #Rhetoric #Shakespeare #Dickens #Stoppard #EnglishLit #KidLit #Beatles #Puppets #Dodos #Mariners #Huskies

Now watching #Treason on Netflix. Now reading The Turning Point: 1851--A Year That Changed Charles Dickens and the World.

h/t @karenyin

"Scrooge was better than his word. He did it all, & infinitely more"

In 2020 @CatherineRussell2 set out to raise money for @Crisis_UK
& she smashed her total. This yr she's shared her fantastically fun reading of A Christmas Carol again to raise even more for the Homeless! https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5-e_V1wYc10

"God bless us Everyone"

Keep those donations coming!!
https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/catherine-russell16

#Christmas #Dickens

A BIG Ty to Gary Andrews for use of all his #achristmascarol #DoodleADays https://twitter.com/garyscribbler/status/1606923958963830787?s=46&t=9xTNUPbxb07mp8SSDq_wuw

Alastair Sim's "A Christmas Carol" is definitely my favourite version. Sim is fantastic, but Kathleen Harrison as Mrs. Dilber takes it to the next level for me

#scrooge #dickens #alastairsim

I'm reading an extract from Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol and I'm fixated on his use of the term "facetious snowball" ... what a bizarre adjective for a snowball..... #books #Dickens #amreading #jolabokaflod

#GothicAdvent Day 27:

Listen for FREE: https://youtu.be/XKRQHI5pjeo

#AChristmasCarol, Stave Five, The End of It

A Christmas Carol, Adapted, Directed and Produced by Paul A.T. Wilson

Narrator: Paul A.T. Wilson
Scrooge: Oliver Fry
Delightful Boy: Freddie Holme
Driver: Paul A.T. Wilson
Fred: Philip Barker
Bob Cratchit: Richard Heaven
Tiny Tim: George Wilson

Music: David Pudney
Sound Design: Paul A.T. Wilson

#audiobooks #Christmas #ChristmasEve #Dickens

@audiobooks
@folklore

Passing the morning listening to LeVar Burton's reading of "A Christmas Carol". Because why not.

#LeVarBurton #Christmas #Dickens #JoinIn

La Navidad, ese invento de Dickens

Es cierto que la Navidad se celebra desde tiempos inmemoriales, pero aunque cueste de creer, la #Navidad, o al menos tal como conocemos sus festividades, comenzó en Inglaterra a mediados del siglo XIX de la mano de Dickens y sus problemas económicos

Historia completa en El Independiente #libros #books #Dickens

https://www.elindependiente.com/tendencias/2022/12/24/la-navidad-ese-invento-de-dickens/

“But you were always a good man of business, Jacob,' faltered Scrooge, who now began to apply this to himself.”

“Business!” cried the Ghost, wringing its hands again. "Mankind was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence, were, all, my business. The deals of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business!”

Charles Dickens, A #Christmas Carol - published on December 19, 1843

Note: A #story that pairs well with a glass of red wine, low warm lights, and some instrumental holiday #jazz #music

#books #book #dickens #inspiration #holidays #reading #writers #writing #tradition #art #history #vintage #photo #classic #music #english

Happy Holidays everyone! #AChristmasCarol #Dickens #bookstodon

#GothicAdvent Day 24

A Christmas Carol, Stave Three, The Second of the Three Sprits, Part Two

listen for FREE: https://youtu.be/HvanvKF8Jic

A Christmas Carol, Adapted, Directed and Produced by Paul A.T. Wilson

Fred: Philip Barker
Fred’s Wife: Laura Holme
Ghost of Christmas Present: Andrew Butcher
Scrooge: Oliver Fry
Narrator: Paul A.T. Wilson

Music: David Pudney
Sound Design: Paul A.T. Wilson

#audiobooks #audiobook #Podcast #Dickens #Christmas

@audiobooks
@folklore

In 1836, Dickens published the Pickwick Papers, where he wrote about the riotous Eatanswill borough election. But #DYK that his description was inspired by the 1835 Northamptonshire North by-election? Find out more about the events that inspired Dickens👇
http://ow.ly/lZXu50LQW5X
@histodons @histodon #Histodons #19thCentury #byelection #Dickens

#GothicAdvent Day 20:

A #Christmas #Carol, Stave Two: The First of the #spirits Part One

Listen for FREE: https://youtu.be/BOPU8ga8qXY

Narrator: Paul A.T. Wilson
Scrooge: Oliver Fry
Ghost of Christmas Past: Jake Brading
Fan: Naeve Hunter
Fezziwig: Paul A.T. Wilson

Music: David Pudney
Sound Design: Paul A.T. Wilson

Copyright 2021, This production is published under the International Creative Commons Attribution Licence version 4

The curtains of the bed were drawn aside; starting up into a half-recumbent attitude, Scrooge found himself face to face with the unearthly visitor who drew them.

It was a strange figure -- like a child: yet not so like a child as like an old man, viewed through some supernatural medium, which gave him the appearance of having receded from the view, and being diminished to a child's proportions.

#audiobooks #audiobook #Podcast #Dickens

@audiobooks
@folklore

#GothicAdvent Day 18:

A Christmas Carol - Stave One, Part One

Link to List: https://youtu.be/NLdydBt2ees

Full cast audio drama of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol. Adapted for audio by Paul A.T. Wilson

CAST:
Narrator: Paul A.T. Wilson
Fred: Philip Barker
Scrooge: Oliver Fry
Gentleman One: Jai Brewer
Gentleman Two: Paul A.T. Wilson
Bob Cratchit: Richard Heaven

PRODUCTION:
Music David Pudney
Sound Design: Paul A.T. Wilson
Director/Producer: Paul A.T. Wilson

Marley was dead: to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker, and the chief mourner. Scrooge signed it. And Scrooge's name was good upon anything.

Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail. This must be distinctly understood, or nothing wonderful can come of the story I am going to relate.

Oh! But he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge! a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner! Hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire; secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster. The cold within him froze his old features, nipped his pointed nose, shrivelled his cheek, stiffened his gait; made his eyes red, his thin lips blue and spoke out shrewdly in his grating voice.

#audiobooks #audiobook #ghosts #Dickens

@folklore @folklorethursday @audiobooks

https://youtu.be/NLdydBt2ees

‘His post was in as solitary and dismal a place as ever I saw. On either side, a dripping-wet wall of jagged stone, excluding all view but a strip of sky’.
Dickens, The signalman 1866
Tavistock’s old railway line path in winter #Devon #Dickens #victorian #ghoststory