Blog posts tagged "charles dickens"

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Nov. 26, 2018 - 6:43 pm
Director Stanley Donen's Charade, the Cary Grant-Audrey Hepburn globetrotting thriller, is often called “the best Hitchcock movie that Hitchcock never made.” Leon Garfield’s Smith may very well be the best Dickens novel that Dickens never wrote. Featuring a protagonist who has more than a little...
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Dec. 12, 2016 - 11:02 am
A Christmas Carol is one of the most popular, adapted, parodied, quoted, analyzed and just plain beloved books of all time. It’s a story everyone knows – or thinks they know – with a main character so familiar his name has become a common noun signifying miserly or otherwise Yuletide-adverse...