I've read Charles Dickens's "A Christmas Carol" at least twenty times and I've seen nearly every film and television version of the story, from the first silent movie depictions to Disney's most recent CGI-animated monstrosity. I enjoy the 1938 film with Gene Lockhart as the perfect Bob Cratchit, but my favorite classic version is the …
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If Jane Austen and Charles Dickens had a baby…Middlemarch!
I've got a confession to make. It isn't an easy one for an avid reader and writer with a degree in English from a fine liberal arts college. I've always prided myself on my broadness of view and quality of thought--but here goes... I hated Middlemarch the first time I read it. There, I've said …
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