Let’s go!

kwantman:

pity we never actually went there, but we were so excited when we found it!

Silly kitty, stop drawing on my classic literature!

 

If you’re amused by this summary, then you’ll really enjoy the full text! 

flyingscotsman:

Ultra Condensed Books

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

Lookin’ good there, Charles! 

tinwhistler:

“Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts.”

A Dickens currency? All the more reason to visit London! 

timesunion:

New Charles Dickens coin honors author

This picture made available by Britain’s Royal Mint taken Nov. 9, 2011, shows the new 2 pound sterling coin with the Queen’s head, right, and the reverse with the image of Charles Dickens, made up from some of the titles of his most famous novels, which has been created to celebrate the 200th anniversary of his birth on 7 February 1812. (David Parry / AP)

Read more: http://www.timesunion.com/news/article/New-Charles-Dickens-coin-honors-author-2347536.php

Two amazing actresses will be playing Great Expectation’s Miss Havisham soon. Which one do you think will portray the role better? 

errolivio:

Helena Bonham-Carter Havisham in Great Expectations the 2012 movie, Gillian Anderson Havisham in Great Expectation Christmas 2011 BBC TV version. BOTH ARE GONNA BE AMAZING!!

British actor Harry Lloyd (known best for his roles as Will Scarlett in “Robin Hood” and Viserys Targaryen in “Game of Thrones”) is the great-great-great grandson of Charles Dickens.
Oddly enough, Harry made his TV debut in the BBC production of David Copperfield (1999.) 

#LifeofDickens

via moviebuffgirl

Explaining Amazon to Charles Dickens. Success? We think so!

#LifeofDickens

intimatedecibel:

Rachel Walsh, a second year illustration student at Cardiff School of Art & Design, was given an assignment to “explain something modern/internet based to someone who lived and died before 1900″. She decided that Victorian era author Charles Dickens needed to be schooled on Amazon’s Kindle wireless electronic reading device. To do so, she cleverly devised a way for a big book to hold forty miniature books and did so by cutting spaces in the pages to hold the shrunken titles. 

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Charicacharles Dickens.

#LifeofDickens

whatthedickenz:

I found this amazing caricature of Dickens done by Court Jones. I’m particularly fond of his gigantic nose, (no wonder he had so many young women falling head over heels for him…)

I’m looking forward to reading more Dickens this semester, having thus far only read Great Expectations, and reading the short biography Brief Lives by Gregory and Klimaszewski has certainly further peaked my interest. I think my favorite detail that the biographers decided to mention was Dickens’ habit of giving his friends and family weird nicknames. He called his younger brother, and then himself, Boz, he called his children names like “Skittles” and “Plorn”, and of course he named his characters likewise (Pip, Tiny Tim, etc). I found this little bit of Dickens trivia to be endearing. Famous authors are often known for their quirks (I found a little list of some of them here), and Dickens had no shortage of eccentricities. 

Unfortunately, I can’t keep myself from making this connection, but another famous man with an affinity for nicknames was George W. Bush (who apparently called Vladimir Putin “Pootie-Poot”). And now I keep imagining the London home of Dickens as some kind of Victorian frat house with little Plorn running around whipping his brothers and sisters with a wet towel. Sorry Charlie Charles, you’re probably rolling in your grave right now.

I’m definitely looking forward to reading more Dickens soon, and to a time when I can write something of actual substance on this new blog of mine. 

Adios!

-Kait

(Source: tocatchthemoon)