Dad used to read aloud to us from Dickens and Kipling. My tastes were omnivorous. I read anything I could lay my hands on, but the memory that stays with me is that of my father reading the Jungle Books to us when we were young. Beautiful stories!
A.B. Guthrie Jr.Stichwörter: childhood-memory dickens kipling author-quotes childhood-stories interview-transcription reading-aloud
And let us not remember Italy the less regardfully, because, in every fragment of her fallen Temples, and every stone of her deserted palaces and prisons, she helps to inculcate the lesson that the wheel of Time is rolling for an end, and that the world is, in all great essentials, better, gentler, more forbearing, and more hopeful, as it rolls!
Charles DickensStichwörter: time italy dickens
...the cab of the truck heated up nicely, its windows fogging. I felt like a Dickens character. I thought about explaining that to Mouse, just to occupy my thoughts, but he was suffering enough without being forced to endure Dickens, even by proxy.
Jim ButcherStichwörter: literature dickens
(On Charles Dickens) It has been the peculiarity and the marvel of this man’s power, that he has invested his puppets with a charm that has enabled him to dispense with human nature.
Anthony TrollopeStichwörter: writing dickens authors-on-authors
Follow those rats! They may lead us back to Muggins!
A.F. StewartStichwörter: dickens anthology classic-literature steampunk
A Dickens character to me is a theatrical projection of a character. Not that it isn't real. It's real, but in that removed sense. But Sherlock Holmes is simply there. I would be astonished if I went to 221 1/2 B Baker Street and didn't find him."
[An Invitation to Learning, January 1942]
Stichwörter: sherlock-holmes characters novels realism presence dickens larger-than-life
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