💙📚 Recently finished #SpringNovel #AliSmith Four out of four stars. Would recommend. Would read again. "Now what we don't want is Facts." In progress: #TheMysteryOfEdwinDrood #CharlesDickens
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James Swanton
James Swanton as The Mummy
Our lantern light falls on the extraordinary @jamescswanton.bsky.social - a masterful actor who has brought chilling life to phantoms & monsters on the big & small screen. James also performs the ghost stories of #CharlesDickens - an essential event for all storytelling fans. www.jamesswanton.com
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It had been bright day, for hours, when Oliver opened his eyes; he felt cheerful and happy. The crisis of the disease was safely past. He belonged to the world again.
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‘No!’ exclaimed Squeers. ‘Damn that boy, he’s always at something of that sort.’
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The lady, who was of a large raw-boned figure, was about half a head taller than Mr Squeers, and was dressed in a dimity night-jacket; with her hair in papers; she had also a dirty nightcap on, relieved by a yellow cotton handkerchief which tied it under the chin.
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while, on the other, a tutor’s assistant, a Murray’s grammar, half-a-dozen cards of terms, and a worn letter directed to Wackford Squeers, Esquire, were arranged in picturesque confusion.
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Stausee im Nebel mit Blumen und Tannen im Vordergrund, mit Zitat von Charles Dickens.
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'Objekte die mit "Q" beginnen oder so aussehen ...' - #Quotes - und ja, das ist gemogelt, weil eben #Worte auf #Englisch und auch nicht wirklich ein #Objekt... 😬
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but needing my care and duty in his manly strength as in his cradle-time—help him, in his darkened walk through this sad world, or he is doomed, and my poor heart is broken!’
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She fell on her knees beside the sleeper, and remained like one stricken into stone, until the tears which fear had frozen so long, came tenderly to her relief.
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‘There is some dreadful meaning in your words. I do not fathom it.’
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With that he advanced, and bending down over the prostrate form, softly turned back the head and looked into the face. The light of the fire was upon it, and its every lineament was revealed distinctly. He contemplated it for a brief space, and hastily uprose.
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‘Would you kill him in his sleep?’ cried the widow, throwing herself between them.
‘Woman,’ he returned between his teeth, as he motioned her aside, ‘I would see him nearer, and I will. If you want one of us to kill the other, wake him.’
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Patrick Troughton as Daniel Quilp
Patrick Troughton as Daniel Quilp
Patrick Troughton as Daniel Quilp
Patrick Troughton as Daniel Quilp
Happy Birthday Patrick Troughton!
He would've been 106 today
Here he is in various Radio Times publicity stills posing as Daniel Quilp in 'The Old Curiosity Shop' (BBC, 1962). No known episodes exist, sadly. Let's hope one day they turn up!
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📚💙 ‘A Christmas Carol’ (Charles Dickens): A Titan of Working-Class Literature by Laura Westford #classics #charlesdickens #achristmascarol #booklovers #tribute
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But even this failed to awaken the sleeper. He turned over towards the fire, his arm fell to the ground, and his head drooped heavily upon it. The widow and her unwelcome visitor gazed at him and at each other for a moment, and then she motioned him towards the door.
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They stood rooted to the ground, as though it had been a voice from the grave.
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Now and then he muttered in a sepulchral voice, ‘Polly put the ket—’ but very drowsily, and more like a drunken man than a reflecting raven.
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After a long interval, Barnaby’s breathing grew more deep and regular, and his eyes were closed. But even then the unquiet spirit of the raven interposed. ‘Polly put the ket—’ cried Grip, and his master was broad awake again.
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or by an effort of recollection on the part of Grip, who would cry in a low voice from time to time, ‘Polly put the ket—’ and there stop short, forgetting the remainder, and go off in a doze again.
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Movie TV Tech Geeks #TVNews #KitHarington #CharlesDickens #MGM Kit Harington Leads MGM+'s 4-Part 'A Tale of Two Cities' Miniseries in New First Look [Exclusive]
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Grip perched upon his leg, and divided his time between dozing in the grateful warmth, and endeavouring (as it presently appeared) to recall a new accomplishment he had been studying all day.
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Then, as if he had well considered the sentiment, and regarded it as apposite to birthdays, he cried, ‘Never say die!’ a great many times, and flapped his wings for emphasis.
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I have found that out, you see, though I am silly. So I say you’re wrong; and this must be my birthday—my birthday, Grip!’
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and when it was midnight, striking one o’clock, we came down to your door to see if you were well. You were on your knees. I forget what it was you said. Grip, what was it we heard her say that night?’
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‘I remember that it has been so till now,’ said Barnaby. ‘But I think to-day must be my birthday too, for all that.’
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Approximately halfway through #DanSimmons' Drood; I have so far resisted googling a single thing about #WilkieCollins, #CharlesDickens, or #TheMysteryofEdmundDrood. Delayed gratification FTW.
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She hurriedly interposed to prevent him, and summoning her utmost fortitude, passed into the recess, and brought it out herself.
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(but with one eye hard upon his treasure all the time), and then, and not till then, began to drag it out, piece by piece, and eat it with the utmost relish.
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