Dickens (front, lying on the grass in a light suit) at Gad’s Hill with friends and family around 1864.
Posted on 06/09/2020 9:56:38 AM PDT by Borges
When Charles Dickens died of an apparent stroke on June 9, 1870, the news was not cabled to the United States until later that night. Many New Yorkers did not learn about the British novelist’s death until the morning of June 11, when it was splashed across the front page of The Times.
No writer of the age was more beloved than Dickens. Just as people had once clamored for the next installment of his serialized novels, they now sought new details about his life and death at 58. For months, the newspaper brimmed with stories about Dickens’s final hours, his funeral, his will, the auction of his art collection, even his estate sale, where a set of old flowerpots went for a guinea.
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So who killed Edwin Drood?
One of the great writers of the Anglo-American culture. Several of his books are favorites.
Dickens was a great writer. His style is unmistakable.
although dickens’ “american notes” is a fascinating work, it’s clear that he wasn’t particularly enamored with america or americans.
jus’ sayin’
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Maybe I’ll read a Tale of Two Cities this summer. That one has been on my list for 20 years. David Copperfield was interesting.
One of the great writers of the Anglo-American culture. Several of his books are favorites.
He was appalled by slavery. But these days he’s called a racist by the Left.
read “our mutual friend”; it was his last complete novel. all of his gifts are on full display in that work.
Really? Tale of Two Cities was on the mandatory read/ study list in all NY high schools for decades. I have loved it since I was fifteen, and have read it over and over.
Dickens was a rare genius.
And he wrote all those books with a household full of unruly kids
—noisy and rambunctious—interrupting him!
In longhand. Cursive.
(I feel like a dinosaur because I know these things.)
Such a slander!
He was a champion of the little people...the poor and oppressed.
He gave them hope with his magnificent prose and uplifting plots.
The publik skools of today are a travesty and a tragedy.
His works are magnificent. However he made a tour of the USA a few years before his death and his comments were pretty ugly.
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“Ever so ‘umble.”
Dickens (front, lying on the grass in a light suit) at Gad’s Hill with friends and family around 1864.
I don’t know, but I’ll never forget that scene where Silas Marner walked up the steps to the guillotine .
You are really mixed up.
It was Sydney Carton who wrote Shakespeare’s plays.
That is great info, thanks! My mom tried to make my brother and I read it when we were in our teens. It never got done by either of us but we are both avid readers.
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