Word: dickenses
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Kennedy searches for titles that will connect to his students' own life experiences and plans to progress to the classics. He says the first book that grabbed him was Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities, and he looks forward to reading it with his students. In the meantime, Kennedy has...
Vanya Solntsev is an orphan, filed and forgotten in a Russian children's home so bleak that Dickens himself would have hesitated to describe it. The older inmates effectively run the orphanage from a boiler room, dealing dope and running teenage prostitutes. The official administration is equally corrupt and totally...
Charles Dickens' greatest novel yielded Masterpiece Theatre's greatest co-production in years. The adaptation captured the disparate tones of the sprawling legal tale--satire, romance, melodrama--and deftly handled its numerous stories. Even at eight hours, it flew by, lofted by Gillian Anderson (The X-Files) as an aristocrat...
But it's a mistake to lump Infinite Jest in with its successors. Think of it instead in terms of its forebears. Think of it as a Dickens novel. It's a book about two socially disparate groups--the tennis players and the drug addicts--and the various plot strands...
She followed Pandora with Pabst's Diary of a Lost Girl, where she's Thiamine, an innocent girl suffering under men's predations - lots of them. The story is like a Dickens novel but with plenty of sex. Her father gets all his serving girls pregnant; his assistant gets Thiamine...