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...PJ Harvey’s brooding, dark songs go some way to addressing this: by turns flinty, reflective and resolute, they often mark moments of insight for characters or seem to speak for the city itself....
...Dawson — has much of Dickens in the theatricality of its characters, the sheer range of the story and the virtuosic brio of the telling of it....
...They were always books that meant a lot to me — like Molesworth, Pooh or Dickens. With Dickens it was bound copies of some of his books as they were first published in monthly instalments....
...it is unlikely that November will mark the nadir in the official measure”....
...Take the moral high ground, and be generous when the time comes to swap sheets and mark your competitors’ work....
...His New York Times obituary descibes the rooms as ressembling “Hogarth paintings, Dickens stage sets and a three-dimensional Beatrix Potter drawing....
...Shakespeare’s Book: The Intertwined Lives Behind the First Folio by Chris Laoutaris (William Collins/Pegasus Books) To mark the 400th anniversary of the First Folio, the Shakespeare scholar examines the...
...Her life left no marks on a thing.” The risk of a thematic approach, however, is that complex subjects get overly simplified and characters remain one-dimensional....
...September 14 to 22; further information here Turner Prize, Tate Britain This year marks the 40th anniversary of the contemporary art prize; the award champions the most outstanding recent contributions...
...Mark O’Connell in Slate asked what it is to play with cliché in Blarney and put-on Irishness....
...Barbie — a project many insisted was “unmakeable” — passed the $1bn mark in a matter of weeks. Nothing is unmakeable for Margot....
...The figures, published on Thursday, mark a significant fall from a September peak of 6.7 per cent, reaching their lowest level since February, just before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine sent global gas and...
...The veteran Everett attempts an audacious rewriting of Mark Twain, and delivers a story bristling with atmosphere, sadness and sly wit....
...Simultaneously, London is also a place with backyard shanty housing and squalor that Charles Dickens would recognise....
...Yet the figures published on Friday are “consistent with the economy faring remarkably well” in the face of those challenges, said Gabriella Dickens, economist at Pantheon Macroeconomics....
...Many economists believe that the fall in the third quarter marks the start of a prolonged recession....
...That would mark the second consecutive quarterly decline, which defines a technical recession....
...The reading, based on data collected between August 12 and 19, was weaker than the 51.1 forecast by economists polled by Reuters and was only marginally above the 50 mark, which indicates a majority of businesses...
...His brains, drive and love of 19th-century literature — he was said to hire people purely on the back of a shared love for Anthony Trollope, TS Eliot, Charles Dickens and Thomas Mann — could have helped...
...The pound dropped as much as 1 per cent to $1.135, the first time it has breached the $1.14 mark in almost four decades....
...Many of these images are drawn from authorship: “red caterpillars resembling editor’s marks on a manuscript”; “his mind is making the pointless scribbles of a pen that has run out of ink.”...
...Korelitz’s prose verges on verbosity, and she is free and easy with her exclamation marks....
...Charles Dickens is said to have drunk there....
...Teaching a lesson can’t be the mark of a good book....
...Although Clark would adapt works by a number of writers, including Dickens’ The Signalman (1976), James was the main focus....
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