It’s December, and along with the holiday preparations and the shortened
days, this time of year brings with it the barrage of year-end lists.
Over the past weeks, critics and editors from numerous publications have
released their Top 10 and Best-of-2013 lists in which they share their
favorite movies,TV shows, albums, songs, and books (among an array of
cultural offerings) of the past year.
Monday 16 December 2013
A Point Of View: Why Charles Dickens endures
As Christmas approaches, so Charles Dickens begins to seep once again
into TV and theatre schedules. I have my own theory about the reason
for his cultural longevity. Listen to this:
"There was a man who, though not more than thirty, had seen the world in divers irreconcilable capacities - had been an officer in a South American regiment among other odd things - but had not achieved much in any way of life, and was in debt, and in hiding. He occupied chambers of the dreariest nature in Lyons Inn; his name, however, was not up on the door, or door-post, but in lieu of it stood the name of a friend who had died in the chambers, and had given him the furniture. The story arose out of the furniture… "
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-25347787
"There was a man who, though not more than thirty, had seen the world in divers irreconcilable capacities - had been an officer in a South American regiment among other odd things - but had not achieved much in any way of life, and was in debt, and in hiding. He occupied chambers of the dreariest nature in Lyons Inn; his name, however, was not up on the door, or door-post, but in lieu of it stood the name of a friend who had died in the chambers, and had given him the furniture. The story arose out of the furniture… "
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-25347787
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