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...David enjoys a meteoric and, we’re told, undeserved rise through the campaign....
...And then there’s the Gad’s Hill Place bonfire in September 1860, where Charles Dickens burnt 20 years’ worth of papers, emptying basket upon basket of correspondence into the flames....
...Film references are not the only element: also present are nods to Christie, Dumas, Daphne du Maurier and Dickens....
...Until 24 December, lumieres-de-noel.fr The Great Dickens Christmas Fair & Victorian Holiday Party, San Francisco The Great Dickens Christmas Fair was inaugurated in 1970 in San Francisco’s waterside Embarcadero...
...Website; Directions The Grapes (Limehouse)This Thameside pub has existed in different forms for almost five centuries, including in a thinly veiled reference in Charles Dickens’ Our Mutual Friend....
...Whiteman is blunt: women don’t walk out at night because “we’re terrified of being raped and murdered.”...
...These iconic scenes are tweaked less than others, but they’re shot through with a renewed intensity and an evocative atmosphere....
...“They’re not technically Christmas decorations,” he qualifies, “since the Soviets banned Christmas in the 1920s and brought it back in 1935 as a New Year celebration.”...
...You’re going to the Euros!” The Dutch coach has a way of mixing playfulness with a relentless focus, which has made her one of the most successful managers in women’s football history....
...Scheffer, who with his daughter used to host evening salons there with famous artists, writers and composers, including Delacroix, Dickens and Chopin....
...For instance, chief executive Bruce Flatt channelled Dickens in his first-quarter letter to shareholders, calling real estate fundamentals “a tale of two cities”....
...Thomas Hood created rows of spines with humorous titles (but no books behind) for the library at Chatsworth in 1831. Dickens did it too: fake books on his shelves included Cats’ Lives in nine volumes....
...It is a weekend well-worth the 2h drive from town — if you’re lucky enough to score tickets....
...“If we’re right that growth will falter later this year . . . we suspect some pain is on the way for the S&P 500, and global equities generally,” said Mathews....
...“We’re not Nimbies as such,” insists Walters. “We know houses have to go somewhere. But it should be in sustainable urban extensions, not in the middle of green fields in unsustainable rural areas.”...
...“We’re the jewellers of shoes, in many ways.”...
...This is a long and immersive listening experience, ranging from a child’s incomprehension to a young man’s determination to shape his own destiny, peopled with characters who are, as in Dickens, frequently...
...The incredible skill in very short pieces blending the moments of sublimity with the domestic, it was extraordinary. For a loyal reader, it was like waiting for Dickens instalments in the old days....
...“We think we’re learning or understanding or travelling, but really we’re like fowl tied to a stick fixed in the ground,” he says of his powerlessness to resist the pull....
...; and Charles Dickens visited in his role as Gaskell’s editor....
...“In life there are certain things you do that you end up dismissing. You think they’re gone, but they’re not. They never go. They come back to you. I think that’s what happened to him.”...
...The best comparison for Spielberg, he says, is Charles Dickens. “Because Oscar Wilde says awful things about Dickens’ sentimentality, but then you actually read Dickens. And there’s searing pathos....
...case they’re open to foreign bribery....
...“And if they’re not,” Stammers adds, “they’re really falling behind the curve.”...
..., sprawling social canvas reminiscent of Thackeray or Dickens....
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