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Happy Birthday Charles Dickens; Here’s Your Stuffed Raven

by Jeff W Posted on February 7, 2015

It’s the birthday of novelist Charles Dickens, born in Portsmouth, England in 1812. By the mid-1850s, Dickens was a popular and successful writer; his novels included The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club (1836-37), The Adventures of Oliver Twist (1837-39), … Continue reading →

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Happy 171st Anniversary To “A Christmas Carol”

by Jeff W Posted on December 19, 2014

It was on this day in 1843 that Charles Dickens published “A Christmas Carol”, the story of Ebenezer Scrooge, whom Dickens described as “a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner. Hard and sharp as flint, from which no … Continue reading →

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