Los Angeles Times

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LOS ANGELES - Arts journalists view each visit to the theater like as a kind of Christmas morning present, ornately wrapped so you have little idea what's inside. As the house lights dim, I think to myself: Will I see a profound commentary on cultura

Writer's Digest

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The poet Anne Michaels once said in one of her poems that if you live in a country you were not born in, then your life is a story. Another of my favorite writers, Samuel Beckett, spent most of his life outside of his native Ireland, living in France

Stamp Collector

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This year marks the 150th anniversary of the death of Charles Dickens, one of the world’s most famous and loved writers. To celebrate, the Isle of Man Post Office working closely with the Charles Dickens Museum, London, has created a set of six caref

New Zealand Listener

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Ever since Charles Dickens published his novella A Christmas Carol in December 1843 – bringing the phrases “Merry Christmas!” and “Bah humbug!” into mainstream usage – the story has evolved to suit the needs and tastes of successive generations. So,

British Heritage Travel

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From the moment Charles Dickens’ novella A Christmas Carol was published in 1843 it was a hit. Ebenezer Scrooge, “hard and sharp as flint” with his “Bah! Humbug!” dismissal of seasonal goodwill became a byword for any killjoy, while scenes of the poo

Entertainment Weekly

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A CHRISTMAS CAROL WILL ALWAYS BE THE GIFT THAT KEEPS ON giving, but that doesn’t mean Andy Serkis (Black Panther) was immediately sold on playing the Ghost of Christmas Past in a new adaptation premiering on FX in December. “Do we really need another

NPR

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The film "doesn't reinvent much of anything, but its jumble of biography, fantasy, and backstage melodrama" is at least better than yet another version of A Christmas Carol.

The Paris Review

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Illustration by John Leech. Public domain. On January 2, 1840, Dickens wrote to his printers, Bradbury and Evans, to thank them for their annual Christmas gift of a turkey. He chose his words with care: My Dear Sirs, I determined not to thank you for

AMERICAN THEATRE

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IT’S DECEMBER, WHICH MEANS IT’S TIME FOR Amy Herzberg’s stage adaptation of A Christmas Carol. And Patrick Mullins’s version. And Michael Wilson’s take on the tale. And, well, too many others to mention. Charles Dickens’s story has long been The Nutc

Cricket Magazine

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AT THIS TIME of year, as people around the world celebrate holidays of light and hope, such as Hannukah, Diwali, Kwanza, and Christmas, one of my favorite traditions is to reread A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. You likely know the story of the

SFX

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UK BBC One, finished US FX, finished Showrunner Steven Knight Cast Guy Pearce, Andy Serkis, Stephen Graham, Vinette Robinson When Scrooge saying “Humbug!” sounds jarring, you know you’re watching a very different take on A Christmas Carol. Peaky Blin

Stamp Collector

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2020 marks 150 years since the death of Charles Dickens (1812-1870), widely regarded as the greatest author of the Victorian era. Appreciated for his vast contribution to English literature, Dickens is particularly well known for his powerful and evo

Los Angeles Times

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LOS ANGELES - When Stephen Hill first purchased tickets to "A Christmas Carol" at South Coast Repertory, he was a newly divorced father from Laguna Niguel, trying to cheer up his 6-year-old daughter, Chelsea. That was back in 1995. Fast forward to Ch

SFX

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OF ALL THE STRANGE places SFX has been in pursuit of a story, summer at the Dancing On Ice studios probably takes the biscuit. Thankfully it’s another frosty production that brings us out to Bovingdon Airfields – also a location for Rogue One and Har

The Christian Science Monitor

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Each December I reread Charles Dickens’s 1843 classic “A Christmas Carol,” and every time, for different reasons, it moves me deeply. I picked the book out of a remainder pile at one of the big chain bookstores in the 1990s, and it sat untouched on m

Country Life

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BY mid December, Christmas Day normally feels like a light at the end of the tunnel; an oasis that promises a family feast and some rest after a month of frenetic activity. This year, its prospect is no less welcome, but the journey there seems incre

How It Works

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In some of his early work, Dickens wrote under the pseudonym Boz. This was a shortened version of a nickname he gave his brother, Moses. Humorously, he always spoke this name as if with a cold, ‘Moses’ becoming ‘Boses’. In desperate poverty, his fath

NPR

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From Sharon Jones to Amy Grant, 'tis the season to revisit our best seasonal Tiny Desk performances.

Country Life

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• Before he found fame as a novelist, Dickens (see page 98) was a journalist and Parliamentary reporter. In the 1830s, his descriptions of London were published in newspapers and re-released collectively in 1836 as Sketches by Boz • The George and V

VOGUE India

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Christmas is always associated with a sense of excitement. Christmas trees and fairy lights are put up with the family. Plum cakes and puddings are prepared with great love. And of course, there are the presents! Be it beautifully wrapped packages to

How It Works

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It has been 150 years since Charles Dickens died, 184 years since his first work was released to the public and 156 years since his last completed book came out. In all of this time, these novels have never been out of print. Dickens may have left us

The World of Cross Stitching

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CALL THE HOTLINE TODAY 03330 162 13 7 Get fully festive with our Christmas issue! Stitch a Country Companions exclusive of Ed and Edwina Hedgehog with their stockings, plus a Scandi gnome doorstop, a Christmas pudding recipe sampler, and a special pe

The English Home

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• Christmas bedding, which might seem frivolous, but – much like the joy of revisiting sentimental tree decorations – it will become a joyful sign of the festive period beginning for many years to come. • Personalised stockings for children will make

SFX

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Tell us about your protagonist. Charley Sutherland is a brilliant, scatterbrained academic who has the ability to bring book characters to life. Unfortunately, though, he can’t always control it… What are the benefits and drawbacks of this ability? I

Country Life

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I DON’T think that we have been alone in trying to eke out Christmas to the full this year. Abandoned Christmas trees, one of the most melancholy signs of the arrival of January, for example, have been strikingly slow to appear on the streets. We pre

The English Home

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Share in the excitement and anticipation of Christmas by helping children decorate their bedrooms with paper chains, felt stockings, charming festive garlands and perhaps even a small tree, aglow with twinkling fairy lights and pretty decorations. Th

Mollie Makes

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Christmas comes but once a year, so we’re starting festive crafts and mince pies now, with decs up on December 1st. Too much? Check out Modern Brush Lettering by Becki Clark for more subtle nods to the season, like this botancial advent calendar. www

Woman

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It’s not just the Sussexes who are facing a very different Christmas this year. For many of us traditions will be replaced by something quite new as we navigate a time that will undoubtedly make the history books. The year has whizzed by and someho

Literary Hub

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The New Books Network is a consortium of author-interview podcast channels dedicated to raising the level of public discourse by introducing serious authors to a wide public via new media. We publish 100 new interviews every month and serve a large,

Fortean Times

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Christmas isn’t what it used to be – but until recently, it was. What xmasologist Neil Armstrong of Teeside University called “the Christmas lament”, the belief that we’ve abandoned the true, traditional holiday and replaced it with something ghastly