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How Dickens Did It: 'A Christmas Carol' Debuted 180 Years Ago, and Won Hearts Instantly
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| Thu, December 21, 2023
Posted on 12/21/2023 3:20:02 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway
I know it’s Christmas, but I have to say that my favorite Dicken movie is “Tale of Two Cities”. Very well done and moving.
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posted on
12/21/2023 3:25:41 PM PST
by
Jim W N
(MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
To: Jim W N
To: nickcarraway
Yes, the 1835 version with Ronald Coleman and Edna May Oliver who was wonderful in that movie.
What the heck, make it a Christmas movie. The Lord is all around the story especially at the end.
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posted on
12/21/2023 3:32:13 PM PST
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Jim W N
(MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
To: nickcarraway
To: nickcarraway
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posted on
12/21/2023 3:36:40 PM PST
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higgmeister
(In the Shadow of The Big Chicken! )
To: nickcarraway
I enjoy his novels, but Dickens was a philanderer. Dumped his wife and kids for a younger woman.
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12/21/2023 3:37:58 PM PST
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mass55th
(“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
To: nickcarraway
I read Martin Chuzzlewit, and it is VERY under-rated. From it we get the word Pecksniffian. Other favorites are Bleak House, Tale of Two Cities and Nicholas Nickleby.
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posted on
12/21/2023 3:39:45 PM PST
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Dr. Sivana
("If you can’t say something nice . . . say the Rosary." [Red Badger])
To: nickcarraway
Good movie: “The Man Who Invented Christmas”
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posted on
12/21/2023 3:39:48 PM PST
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pgyanke
(Republicans get in trouble when not living up to their principles. Democrats... when they do.)
To: mass55th
Dickens was a philanderer. Dumped his wife and kids for a younger woman.
You can see hints of excusing himself in both David Copperfield and Hard Times. Still is a great writer.
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posted on
12/21/2023 3:42:23 PM PST
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Dr. Sivana
("If you can’t say something nice . . . say the Rosary." [Red Badger])
To: nickcarraway; All
The article starts with Dickens in dire financial straights.
I kept waiting for it to tell me how he fared financially later in life.
To: nickcarraway
Everyone who likes Charles Dickens should read Chapter 6 of A Handful of Dust, by Evelyn Waugh. It was also published in an Alfred Hitchcock collection as a short story called “The Man Who Loved Dickens”. I won’t spoil it, but I always think of that story when the subject turns to Dickens.
To: nickcarraway
It’s nearly Halloween. Was Halloween observed in England in the 1840's?
To: Fiji Hill
Washington, Dickens blasted in American Notes, was the home of: “Despicable trickery at elections; under-handed tamperings with public officers; and cowardly attacks upon opponents, with scurrilous newspapers for shields, and hired pens for daggers”.
To: mass55th
Nice thread crap! Well done.
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12/21/2023 4:17:25 PM PST
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Gigantor
(Either the United States respects its Constitution, or there is no need for a United States.)
To: nickcarraway
Alister Sim was one of the best Scrooges.
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posted on
12/21/2023 4:18:08 PM PST
by
Blood of Tyrants
( "It is easier to fool people than to convince them they have been fooled."- Mark Twain)
To: Jim W N
“I know it’s Christmas, but I have to say that my favorite Dicken movie is “Tale of Two Cities”. Very well done and moving.”
I remember. I had lasagna.
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posted on
12/21/2023 4:18:24 PM PST
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Gigantor
(Either the United States respects its Constitution, or there is no need for a United States.)
To: Blood of Tyrants
Did you see the Reginald Owen one?
To: pgyanke
Good movie: “The Man Who Invented Christmas”Indeed? And here I always thought Jesus was somehow central to Christmas. Which brings me to my greatest objection to Dicken's tale. It never mentions Christ. Instead it is one of the great influences on secularizing the story; and turning it into a vague fable of feel good humanistic brotherhood. I'll pass, thank you.
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12/21/2023 4:22:35 PM PST
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Robwin
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To: nickcarraway
I had all his works at one time...old small leather books....illustrated.
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