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Maybe it was Oscar Wilde, the greatest Irishman since the blessed Brendan, who said it best: "One must have a heart of stone to read [Dickens' description of] the death of Little Nell without laughing." Much the same is true of the latest story to convulse the art world: the...
CP: Have you heard of Wilkie Collins? He was a contemporary of Charles Dickens, he was sort of a melodrama man. He wrote these amazing cliffhanger novels, like The Woman in White and Moonstone, which I think are brilliant. I don't think they're necessarily that influential but they...
The author himself subtitles his book A Prophesy, but the playfulness of the opening pages does not seem to herald a serious bout of forecasting. A character named Plato, who serves as the orator of London, lectures his fellow citizens about ancient history, particularly the fragmentary evidence that has survived...
"Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anyone else, these pages must show."--Charles Dickens' David Copperfield, as read by Homer Wells.
If high-tech needs smart antitrust enforcement, that raises an even trickier question: Is the American legal system up to it? The wheels of justice have always ground slowly--and even today the courts have more in common with Dickens' Bleak House than with the World Wide Web. By the...