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| The late Mr Waterton having, some time ago, expressed his opinion that ravens are gradually becoming extinct in England, I offered the few following words about my experience of these birds. |
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Dickens' classic tale of kindness, truth and virtue completely ruined by having a member of the Blackadder family involved. Stuffed with deeply horrible people and groaning with cartloads of... |
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Michael Kitchen stars as John Jarndyce in a BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of Dickens’ classic tale of London and the law. |
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Bleak House opens in a London shrouded by fog—a fog that swirls most densely about the Court of Chancery, where the obscure case of Jarndyce v. Jarndyce lies lost in endless litigation,... |
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| The original idea for Bleak House, Dickens' attack on abuses in the Courts of Chancery, began with an article in Household Words entitled "Martyrs in Chancery." Modern criticism considers... |
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A complex plot of love and inheritance is set against the English legal system of the mid-nineteenth century, with all its tortuous avenues and disguised resolutions. Here is the firm, Jarndyce &... |
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| Marley était mort, pour commencer. Là-dessus, pas l'ombre d'un doute. Le registre mortuaire était signé par le ministre, le clerc, l'entrepreneur des pompes funèbres et celui qui avait mené le deuil.... |
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"Every idiot who goes about with ‘Merry Christmas' on his lips should be boiled with his own pudding," says Scrooge. Mean old Scrooge despises Christmas, until Christmas Eve, when a haunted voice... |
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A dramatisation of Dickens' classic story about Ebenezer Scrouge's encounter with the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future. |
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A Christmas Carol is the best-known and best-loved of Dickens’ ‘Christmas Books’, and the story of the miser Scrooge’s redemption has become as much part of the Christmas tradition as plum... |
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