London: An archivist at the British Film Institute has stumbled across a 1901 movie just one minute long which turns out to be the earliest surviving film featuring a character from the works of Charles Dickens. Bryony Dixon was researching early films of China when she noticed an entry in a catalogue referring to 'The Death of Poor Joe', which she realized could refer to a character in Dickens' 'Bleak...
12:15 PM, Mar 09, 2012
New Delhi: The Google doodle commemorating the 200th birth anniversary of the greatest English novelist of the Victorian era features famous characters from Charles Dickens' novels. The British author created unforgettable characters such as Ebenezer Scrooge and David Copperfield. The doodle with a Victorian feel does not link to the usual Google search engine results but since it's about Dickens it instead directs users to the Google Books results page...
09:21 AM, Feb 07, 2012
New Delhi: He gave us Uriah Heep in "David Copperfield", the Artful Dodger in "Oliver Twist", Ebenezer Scrooge in "The Christmas Carol"... characters who live on not just in books but also in the English language itself. As the world celebrates 200 years of Charles Dickens, so does India despite the intense debate on the relevance of Dickensian pedagogy in the 21st century. The pictures he painted of Victorian England...
05:20 PM, Feb 06, 2012
London: Actress Felicity Jones will reportedly play famous Victorian novelist Charles Dickens' mistress Nelly Ternan in an adaptation of novel 'The Invisible Woman'. Jones is set to star opposite Ralph Fiennes in the movie which follows the story about the relationship between the English author and Ternan. The affair was secret and lasted 13 years until the day of the 'Christmas Carol' writer's death in Rochester, Kent in 1870. Despite...
01:22 PM, Dec 03, 2011
London: The British government announced on Monday it has given protected status to a former workhouse thought to have inspired Charles Dickens' 'Oliver Twist,' a move that should save the building from demolition. Heritage minister John Penrose said the austere Georgian edifice was "an eloquent reminder of one of the grimmer aspects of London's 18th-century social history." He said the building had been given Grade II listed status, meaning it...
08:16 PM, Mar 14, 2011
London: Literary classics by Charles Dickens and Jane Austen are enjoying a revival, thanks to ebook gadgets like the Amazon's Kindle. Kindles were the biggest selling products this Christmas, Amazon affirmed, as Britain finally embraced the ebook revolution. Owners of ebook gadgets like the Kindle and the Apple iPad can snap up the works of many dead literary greats without paying a penny because they are out of copyright, reports...
02:09 PM, Dec 27, 2010
New York: The talk show host has selected a pair of Dickens classics, "A Tale of Two Cities" and "Great Expectations." The two novels are being issued in a single bound Penguin paperback edition, around 800 pages, with a list price of $20. The electronic version, also from Penguin, sells for $7.99. Because the copyright has long expired on the 19th-century novels, they are available through a variety of publishers...
01:38 PM, Dec 06, 2010
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07:40 PM, Jun 05, 2008
Chennai: Indian captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni reckons that the upcoming four-Test series is his team's best chance of upstaging Australia in their own backyard but will not take them lightly despite their recent slump. India and Australia will square off from December 26 in a highly-anticipated series in which the visitors seem to have a good chance given the struggle through transition that Michael Clarke's men are enduring. On a...
01:10 PM, Mar 29, 2008
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