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Old 02-13-2012, 12:20 PM   #16
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Glen, Dickens did not need any of those in his time. It was only his health which prevented him from making millions and millions. The money he did earn was I believe the equivolent to a few million today, but his outgoings were enormous, which included a wife who, although done nicely I think, was paid to keep quiet about his fancy lady in later life.
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Have you been living at the bottom of a well for the last week?

We've not been able to turn on the TV or radio around here without hearing items related to the bicentennial of Dickens's birth!

It may also be a result of your living in the UK? There was no real news around here (Indiana) relating to Dickens' birthday. In any case, happy birthday Charles Dickens!
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I'm not in the UK, but I knew something about Dickens was up because there were so many threads about him this past week.

Dickens 10 Greatest Novels according to Time Magazine

Mad For Dickens?

Dickens Greatest Novels - A Poll

Charles Dickens (This one.)

I don't think I've ever noticed so many threads at one time dedicated to Dickens before!
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Actually, in the USA, Dickens is an author English teachers use to torture 14 year old boys with. The books are big, have no car crashes or spaceships in them, and everyone talks and talks and talks. It isn't until we are older that some of us learn to appreciate just how cool he really is. Dickens could use a good publicist and a marketing plan.
Speak for yourself. Don't lump me in with YOUR hangups...[perceived or otherwise]
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Have you been living at the bottom of a well for the last week?

We've not been able to turn on the TV or radio around here without hearing items related to the bicentennial of Dickens's birth!
I'm in Italy and, sadly, I was entirely unaware of the bicentennial.
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Actually, in the USA, Dickens is an author English teachers use to torture 14 year old boys with. The books are big, have no car crashes or spaceships in them, and everyone talks and talks and talks. It isn't until we are older that some of us learn to appreciate just how cool he really is. Dickens could use a good publicist and a marketing plan.
The Muppets' version of a Christmas Carol?
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Old 02-13-2012, 04:36 PM   #22
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The primary definition of 'birthday' is the anniversary of a birth, so, we do use it in the literal sense. To refer to the actual day and year someone was born is a secondary definition.

We could say "Congratulations on the anniversary of your birth", and that would also be accurate, but would be considered unusual.
Indeed.

♪ Happy Anniversary to you.
♫ Happy Anniversary to you.
♪ Happy Anniversary dear Charles.
♪ (even though you are dead). Happy Anniversary to you.

Just not the same spirit to it.

I live in a very small town in the northern woods of Wisconsin and I knew all about it. Then I suppose that I am unusual for my area in that I subscribe to The Smithsonian Magazine and listen mainly to public radio broadcasts of programs such as this "The World of Charles Dickens."
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Sorry, I didn't know you are a 14 year old boy.
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Then I suppose that I am unusual for my area in that I subscribe to The Smithsonian Magazine
Currently reading this article. I had to buy the mag because its kinda of hard to get at the library. Couldn't wait.

Can anyone recommend a good biography on Dickens. That article leaves me wanting more.

I celebrated Dickens birthday by buying the Delphi collection of his works. They seem to have done a great job. I might be buying more of their collections. I just wish there were page numbers.

I was going to reread Tale of Two Cities, but decided on Great Expectations. The excerpt we read in 9th grade really helped turn me on to reading. Not to mention getting me out of the basics.
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I know I'm being picky, but how can he have a 200th birthday? I thought he died in 1870.
What makes you so sure he is dead?
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Actually, in the USA, Dickens is an author English teachers use to torture 14 year old boys with. The books are big, have no car crashes or spaceships in them, and everyone talks and talks and talks. It isn't until we are older that some of us learn to appreciate just how cool he really is. Dickens could use a good publicist and a marketing plan.
Dickens wasn't that keen on the US either. It seems to have been that old issue - Copyright. He rather felt that he should have been paid something for his books by American consumers and said so on his first trip to the US. The American public opinion whipped up by the press was that he should be grateful that he was being read and that expecting payment was pure greed. Dickens' resulting disillusionment comes over loud and clear in American Notes and Martin Chuzzlewit.
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Can anyone recommend a good biography on Dickens. That article leaves me wanting more.
A Life by Claire Tomalin was released last fall. Here's a review of it.
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A Life by Claire Tomalin was released last fall. Here's a review of it.
I was looking at that book, but 20$ for an ebook ! There were not a lot of reviews and they were a bit mixed for that price. Thanks for the review.
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A Life by Claire Tomalin was released last fall. Here's a review of it.
Personally I prefer Peter Ackroyd's biography of Dickens.
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