HOW TO READ CHARLES DICKENS

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  @AsuraSantosha · 2 years ago

  It seems weird to me that people would criticize Dickens for being sentimental. Meanwhile, literary fiction today seems to be a competition on who can write the saddest, most depressing picture of life one can dream up.

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  @zoebettinson · 2 years ago

  I teach English in school and we always listen to your videos.  Your passion is infectious.  ❤

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  @astridpedneault6654 · 2 years ago

  Thank you for honouring Dickens who is, as you effectively demonstrate, much more than a writer; he is a hero, and advocate for the poor, the little and the children. He makes them beautiful and worthy of love. Your ending words and images are powerful, as Dickens deserve. My favorite of all your videos. Thank you.

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  @amyremington381 · 2 years ago

  Your tribute to Charles Dickens is masterful. Every word and image is perfection. Thank you for this very satisfying way to enjoy my Saturday morning!! You are delightful company.❤❤❤

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  @hollieshuler8024 · 1 year ago

  When I read The Pickwick Papers, I always imagined a family gathering in the drawing room after dinner, to listen to the latest installment of the misadventures of the Pickwickians.

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  @antonella6952 · 2 years ago

  This is a brilliant, brilliant video.<br>“Please Sir I want some more”<br>Love from Italy

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  @bradchristy5002 · 2 years ago

  Magnificent! Tristan is a YouTube Jewel! A thorough education on literature…….Very well done!

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  @bonniejalsevac7946 · 2 years ago (edited)

  I was cleaning the kitchen and listening to Little Dorrit when this popped up. I stopped immediately to listen to you Tristan and thoroughly enjoyed this presentation. I have forwarded it to a son, and friend who just yesterday was talking with me about needing to reread Dickens. Your &nbsp;summary is so beautiful!

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  @OldenCrowe · 2 years ago

  Dicken&apos;s writing was vivid. Before writing a scene, he went to the large mirror in his room and spoke the words of his planned dialogue using those character&apos;s voices. He honed it to make it sound right, and be theatrical.<br><br>In his public appearances, he had a large wooden frame that he stood inside. There were lights on the frame to illuminate him. He would read out scenes, imitating the character&apos;s voices, Even women and children characters. <br><br>There are newspaper reviews of his performance that say that sometimes a woman in the audience would faint during an especially dramatic scene, such as Shylock shouting words and then falling off the rope hanging down from the rooftop near the end of Oliver Twist.

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  @JumaYusuf-y2n · 2 years ago

  I&apos;ve read some good classic writers but I still find Dickens standing at the pinnacle of all the good writers. He&apos;s that good and really hard to compare with other good writers.

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  @julianugentarchitect · 2 years ago

  I hated reading as a child (because of &nbsp;dyslexia), but I loved the rich world of Dickens and his novels helped me overcome my distaste for reading. Now I listen to audio books and have just finished a year long quest to listen to all of his works (mostly read by Mil Nicholson for LibreVox). They are so vivid, so insightful, and so wickedly funny.

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  @carlataylor9924 · 9 months ago

  The end of this video made me cry! Sentimentalism very nice! I have not read dickens yet but I have Oliver twist, great expectations and the tale of two cities because I want to read them, I think this video was a perfect introduction to Charles Dickens and his mind. I appreciate the work you put into this, I can tell you love his writing and stories. Im so glad I watched this before reading because even just knowing the child viewpoint is something I would not have considered and knowing abI ut his theater/shakespearan approach to storytelling is something that helps me understand the dramatics even more.

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