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200 Years old, and still making it happen.

My favorite? Great Expectations.

or, Grope exposations




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Mine is... Sale of two titties. I loved that one.

I lost the complete works of Charley, which was a very expensive leather bound Centennial Edition... in my pipeburst insurance right off...

I'm still in dispute with them over that and other art treasures I lost. Them buggers are gonna pay, that's for sure.

Happy 200th birthday Dicky.

One of my favourites was/is Bleak House, it reminded me of home.

Halfinchcock

Ought to have read more but haven't. Great writer.

Bleak House, Great Expectations, Pickwick Papers.

One of, if not, the greatest English writer. His novels capture the time to perfection and his tremendous talent of perceiving the constant battle between the rich and poor of the time. Haven't read him for a long time, but loved him when I was a nipper!

His writing was all the more shrewd, being serialised in magazines. He knew how to leave people on a cliff hanger. Today he seems a bit verbose but he was a comic master. I believe Oscar Wilde said of The Old Curiosity Shop

'a man would have to have a heart of stone not to laugh at the death of Little Nell'………...

He might of course have been jealous of Dickens' success as well as mocking the sentimentality of the novel.

Dickens' last words apparently were:

Be natural my children. For the writer that is natural has fulfilled all the rules of art.

Pretty good advice for any would-be writer from one who has never been out of print and whose Tale of Two Cities has sold 200 million copies.

I believe he made TOCS up as he went along, so, sentimental or not, it's still pretty damned wonderful. They (re?)ran a great dramatisation of it on Radio 4 Extra recently.

I've got a printout of a local paper from 1895. I was looking into the family history, and researching the death of my great-great-grandfather. He was found drowned in 1895 in mysterious circumstances. In the newspaper is a reference to Oscar Wilde's trial, which is interesting.

First writer for The Spoof?

Much of his work was cutting edge satire on Victorian life.

Sadly, I've never read anything by Dickens. I was supposed to in school, but was much more interested in my photography project at the time so read the Cliff's notes of Great Expectations and wrote the paper based on that.

Sad, but true. One day I'll really read it though.

Ellie

Strange what you can find when you dig, my 3 or 4 times Great Grandad I found in a Church register of deaths- it said (causes of death are given when deaths are accidental):

'Drowned in the New river whilst in a state of inebriation.'

Way to go!

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Quote: Erskin Quint

I believe he made TOCS up as he went along, so, sentimental or not, it's still pretty damned wonderful. They (re?)ran a great dramatisation of it on Radio 4 Extra recently.

I've got a printout of a local paper from 1895. I was looking into the family history, and researching the death of my great-great-grandfather. He was found drowned in 1895 in mysterious circumstances. In the newspaper is a reference to Oscar Wilde's trial, which is interesting.

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