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Before he died in 1912, Widener had collected 3,000 volumes of what he considered to be the 100 most important works in English literature. Whether saved because of their fine bindings or illustrious owners, the Widener collection heralds the first folio of Shakespeare's plays, and various works by...
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (Mobil Showcase Network). Even squeezed to fit the small screen, the Royal Shakespeare Company's epic entertainment still ranked as a unique theatrical treat. The nine-hour drama preserved 150 great performances in a format Dickens would have loved: the miniseries.
"A merry Christmas, Bob!" said Ebenezer Scrooge to his clerk Bob Cratchit after waking from his nightmare in Dickens' A Christmas Carol. "A merrier Christmas, Bob, my good fellow, than I have given you for many a year!" America's merchants this year can feel as happy as...
He may not have felt like this at the time; an older man wrote these words in an essay, in a world drastically altered. But Eric's conduct at Eton did not resemble the courtship of success. He idled his way through 4½ years at the apex of...
Still, Orwell never allowed this innate pessimism to overwhelm his talent or his energies. With Europe flaring into war, he took time from his political comments to write essays on Charles Dickens, Henry Miller and the literary and social merits of English boys' magazines. Oddly, these are the pieces...