ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: Among the many movies opening for the holidays is one with a new take on an old story. The Man Who Invented Christmas starring Dan Stevens and Christopher Plummer is about Charles Dickens and the creation of A Christmas Carol. It

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Charles Dickens. One of the best and most read English authors. I havent read any Charles Dickens books, so I dont know. I always kind of perceived them as being quite long and boring and too much detail. Long, boring and too much detail? Shame on hi

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Charles Dickens wrote his seminal Christmas story, A Christmas Carol, more than 150 years ago. But even today Dickens and his work remain in the public eye, as a new film version of his story is released. Jennifer Glasse | London 19 December 2009 One

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Remembering Hazel Dickens Trailblazing bluegrass and folk singer-songwriter Hazel Dickens recently died at the age of 76. Dickens was a performer whose childhood in a West Virginia coal mining town led her to become a labor activist and inspired a li

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Dickens' Fans Mark 200th Anniversary of his Birth This is Portsmouth, about 100 kilometers south of London. It's a city with a proud past, one of the main homes of the British Navy. Tourists come here to see the historic port. But though the cultural

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A Tale of Dickens 狄更斯记 Charles Dickens, second of eight children, was born in Portsea, England, in 1812 during the new industrial age. Dickenss father was at the time a clerk in the navy pay office. He was well paid but often ended in financi

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