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View Poll Results: December 2011 MobileRead Book Club Vote (Classics) | |||
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne | 4 | 5.06% | |
The Iliad by Homer | 7 | 8.86% | |
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens | 13 | 16.46% | |
The Murder Of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie | 9 | 11.39% | |
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton | 2 | 2.53% | |
Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence | 2 | 2.53% | |
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov | 12 | 15.19% | |
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad | 10 | 12.66% | |
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller | 11 | 13.92% | |
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf | 9 | 11.39% | |
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12-08-2011, 10:08 PM | #151 | ||
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19th Century Vocabulary
Fellow readers of A Christmas Carol, please help if you can. I've liberally referenced the dictionary, but the meanings of several passages still elude me.
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"Trimming the candle" refers to the wick. He was removing the excess wick as it burned.
"A pot or porter" refers to a type of wine or sherry. |
12-14-2011, 02:15 PM | #155 |
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"a bad lobster" - putrescence was often associated with a glow in the dark - from bacteria
"pot of porter" - porter is a type of dark beer "plain deal forms and desks" - Long, unpainted and unvarnished school benches made of deal wood, or pine. |
12-14-2011, 02:28 PM | #156 |
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Some great resources:
"What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew" http://www.victorianlondon.org http://www.cockneyrhymingslang.co.uk/ |
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Thanks Nysaa and poohbear for the explanations and links.
I thought the dark beer, when I saw "porter," but the language is so strange: Quote:
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Thank you for the Jon!!
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Beer was sold in "pint pots" - essentially large mugs - so when the fiddler raised the mug to his face to drink, the mug hid his face from view as if he had dunked his head into the mug! Dickens has some very lively - and lovely - descriptive passages.
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Ah, voila! Thank you.
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