Today- F.2/7/2025 is Charles Dickens' Birthday

[Jace]

Author, journalist, edior,Novelist,
Born Feb.7, 1812.(1870).Landport, Portsmouth
wrote 15 novels, 5 novellas

Some are:
A tale of two cities
A Christmas Carol
Bleak House
David Copperfield
Great Expectations..just on PBS
Little Dorrit..saw series on PBS
Oliver Twist
And others.

Do y you have a favorite?

Myself...it started in high school English class when
teacher put '78 record on phonograph of A Tale of Two Cities
To heard it...intrigued

 

[Aunt Bea]

 

[Aunt Bea]

Charles Dickens visited my city in 1868 and was not impressed.

Today in History: Charles Dickens Visits Syracuse to Read a Christmas Carol

 

[Jace]

@Aunt Bea ..TY

 

[CinnamonSugar]

A Christmas Carol was great. Have tried reading some of the others, never quite got through them.

 

[Trade]

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times"

 

[Aunt Bea]

“Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery”

- Wilkins Micawber, David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

 

[Trade]

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times"

Full disclosure I've never read a Dickens novel cover to cover. I just think that's a really cool line.

I did read a couple of the Classic Comic book versions when I was a kid. But as for books my childhood favorite authors were Jack London, Jules Verne, and Robert Heinlein.

As for movies one of my favorites based on a Dickins novel is the 1998 version of Great Expectaions staring Ethan Hawke and Gwyneth Paltrow. A lot of it was filmed in the Sarasota/Manatee area of Florida which i near where I was born and raised. And Ethan Hawke is a favorite actor of mine.

I think it's a great movie. But since I never read the book I can't tell you how close it follows it. Lol!