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Fascinating fact (Hollywood.com)
JOSEPH FIENNES is the latest star to team up with coffee company Carte Noire for a new literacy scheme. The British actor has been filmed reading extracts from novels by Charles Dickens, Nick Hornby and Marian Keyes to help introduce more people to famous works. Former THE WIRE star DOMINIC WEST was previously involved in the campaign.


Daniel Krotz: Jarndyce Vs. Jarndyce (The Huffington Post)
Charles Dickens' novel Bleak House contains myriad plots and subplots, the foremost of these being the absurdity of a legal case that seems to have no purpose but to line the pockets of lawyers.


The London Blogger Interviews #35: Footsteps of Boz (Londonist)
Among Charles Dickens' cauldron of literary outpourings, his first major work remains relatively obscure. Sketches by Boz sees the pseudonymous young author reporting scenes from everyday London life with the nascent wit, wizardry and pathos of his later novels. Postgrad Mike Kielty has set up a blog to revisit Dickens' 'sketches', looking with a modern eye at some of the locations mentioned in ...


Seven Days In Seven Lives: 'A Week In December' (NPR)
Sebastian Faulks' satirical novel is a weeklong tour of modern London, woven together in Dickensian style. Dickens' 19th century characters dealt with class conflict, wealth, poverty and true love. Faulks' contemporary characters deal with terrorism, greed, the Internet and — because some things never change — true love.


Philip Pittack & Martin White, cloth merchants (My Tower Hamlets)
When Charles Dickens visited this corner of London in 1851, he wrote an account of visiting a silk warehouse , so I was intrigued when Miss Willey of Old Town , told me about the last remaining cloth warehouse in Spitalfields, Crescent Trading in Quaker St run by Philip Pittack & Martin White, who describe themselves as clearance cloth merchants.


Fiction review: 'Ordinary Thunderstorms' (San Francisco Chronicle)
Ordinary Thunderstorms By William Boyd (Harper; 403 pages; $26.99) We are all Adam's kindred, and in Adam's fall we sinned all. The protagonist of the novel "Ordinary Thunderstorms" is named Adam Kindred, which is a pretty good indication that William Boyd...


8 Things To Consider Before Walking Away From Your Mortgage (WallStreet Journal via Yahoo! Finance)
A desperate couple in Illinois considers a "strategic foreclosure." Brett Arends urges them to consider their options first.


Do unions have too much power? (BBC News)
Talks between BA and the Unite union aimed at averting strike action will resume this morning. What's your reaction?


Meet the new action heroes: Lincoln, Da Vinci, Dickens and Queen Victoria (Los Angeles Times)
If you're making a period-piece adventure these days, you might want to consider putting the whip, wooden stake or pistol in the hand of a long-gone world leader or esteemed author.


Alcopops, hair straighteners and babygros: that's how we live in 2010 ... (Independent)
They may be less celebrated than Samuel Pepys, William Cobbett or Charles Dickens but the number crunchers at the Office for National Statistics see themselves as no less acute observers of social change.


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