In 1842, C. Dickens sailed the ocean blue and landed in America. Then he wrote a book about his journeys, cleverly titled American Notes. This is not a well-read Dickens’ volume. For good reason. Charitably, it is an uneven book. Uncharitably, it is a pointless ramble punctuated with some interesting things here and there. Dickens lands in Boston, heads south to Washington, then west to Cincinnati and the Great Plains, northeast by the Great Lakes into Canada, and then back down to … [Read more...] about Dickens in America
Dickens Charles
The Love of Scrooge
“There are many things from which I might have derived good, by which I have not profited, I dare say,” returned the nephew. “Christmas among the rest. But I am sure I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round—apart from the veneration due to its sacred name and origin, if anything belonging to it can be apart from that—as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one … [Read more...] about The Love of Scrooge