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...Dickens Bart, a dairy farmer and president of the Farmers Defence Force Belgium, said protests could become more violent as elections approach....
...Dickens is referenced more than once, and there are times when this compendious novel, with its gallery of eccentric supporting characters — such as Mitchel’s flamboyant colleague and rival Thomas Meagher...
...Other events include a major Van Gogh exhibition in September. From May 10; Find information, tickets and programme here....
...Revolusi: Indonesia and the Birth of the Modern World by David Van Reybrouck (Bodley Head/WW Norton) In August 1945 Indonesia became the first colonised country to declare its independence after the second...
...During her research, Kingsolver befriended the doctor Art Van Zee, who raised early red flags about opioid addiction in his rural practice in Pennington Gap, Virginia....
...asks Uriah Heep in Charles Dickens’ David Copperfield, alluding to his premature announcement of his plan to marry Agnes. We probably all have. Pears are a paradoxical fruit....
...Johnny van Haeften gallery has, for instance, put forward “Noli me tangere” by Jan Brueghel the Younger (late 1630s, priced at £175,000)....
...four floors of a grand 18th-century building on historic Broad Street, began as an academic retailer, and has sold university reading materials to everyone from Margaret Thatcher to JRR Tolkien: Ulric van...
...She has imitated the late Peter Aliss’s commentary of golfer Jean Van De Velde screwing up the final hole of the 1999 British Open....
...Jonathan Van Tam, deputy chief medical officer, warned at a private meeting that the situation was “critical”....
...It’s an effective teaser for what Pearce suggests will be a suitably unsettling Dickens adaptation for our troubled age....
...On the table in “L’Arlésienne” is a copy of Dickens’ Christmas Tales. “Self-portrait”, displayed in London in 1929, helped crystallise the legend of Van Gogh as tortured genius....
...So what if this is Dickens, not Dostoevsky? We don’t put Dickens in a bin. And Labaki, previously famed for feminist comedies (Caramel), has a terrific story sense....
...Van Gogh spoke four languages and was an avid reader of English literature, consuming the novels of Charles Dickens and rereading his Christmas tales every year....
...Dickens did not invent modern Christmas celebrations, though....
...Axler’s encounter with Van Buren is a strange subplot in this peculiar, unsatisfying novel that doesn’t rank among Roth’s best work....
...It is perverse, for example, to skirt over Manet, Degas (no “Absinthe Drinker”), Van Gogh, while devoting a chapter to obscure realist Pelez....
...The venerable firm was more than a century old, established in 1860 at Cleveland Street in Fitzrovia, where Charles Dickens was raised....
...If Charles Dickens were still writing, private landlords would take over from workhouse masters as his topical ogres....
...Sharing housing and resources will lead to happier communities, even if we can’t afford camper van trips to beautiful Mull.”...
...Charles Dickens wrote The Pickwick Papers on one. Just inside the entrance, framed endorsements by various royal families from around the world adorn the walls....
...Charles Dickens, a one-time Camden resident, set some of his stories in the area; and the poet Dylan Thomas owned a house in Delancey Street, where a three-bedroom penthouse is now on sale through Knight...
...According to Dickens, writing years later about the French Revolution, “It was the best of times, the worst of times”....
...and an Aborigine girl adopted by the colonial governor of Van Diemen’s Land, he has produced original, deeply considered novels....
...He obtained an injunction that prevented van Moyland from pressing ahead with the house sale and auction....
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