Finally, 50 years after being forced to read Great Expectations, I am thoroughly enjoying reading his work. I am currently on Oliver Twist.

@HansDelbruck53

11 ай бұрын

It's time to get off him.

@cwptrsn

8 ай бұрын

I did the same myself and have just finished. I skipped rereading Great Expectations though, mever my favorite.

Anytime I want to escape the madness of American society - I turn to Charles Dickens never fails .

@Delicious_J

11 ай бұрын

Pshht everytime I want to escape the madness of British society I open Charles Dickens

@rmp7400

9 ай бұрын

Because American society ....is captive to the unholy grip of the very same Central Bankers of the City of London that Dickens powerfully protested through his gifted literary accounts.

@a.d.5952

7 ай бұрын

...and American society is a mess. I am happy I fled in 1999, never to return. I can't imagine living in the United States. I do love the USA of my childhood (1960s) but that nation vanished long ago. Now it is sheer madness.

@mckavitt13

6 ай бұрын

​@@a.d.5952 Ditto stories, yours & mine.

@mckavitt13

6 ай бұрын

You said it!

“There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.„ _Charles Dickens

Being a Londoner myself, Dickens has always been one of my very favourite authors. Thank you for posting this.

@sonalikarmakar9317

Жыл бұрын

Charles Dickens was a true social novelist

@louise-yo7kz

Жыл бұрын

Perhaps the greatest Victorian novelist

That debtors prison must have been hideous. It would mark any child. Such a well told story of one of my favorite writers. I knew so little about him, thank you for this excellent video. The Hograth family seems worth a story of their own.

My Mother told me that my great grandfather, John Davis heard Charles Dickens in The Leather Bottle, Cobham. He lived in Rochester, before going into the Workhouse. My late husband trained in the dockyard at Sheerness then transferring to the dockyard at Chatham. Thank you for this video.

@deedeedodo8092

Жыл бұрын

I used to work at the Leather Bottle and even stayed there for a birthday treat one year. I loved it and tried to stay awake as long as I could incase I could encounter the ghost that reportedly haunts it 🤣

I like the introductory music, thank you. These looks at history and how people thought, is quite interesting.

Exquiste narration….. poignant images…. thank you for posting. Miss jenny

I have read all of Charles Dickens and am getting ready to start an old, illustrated book of his: Dombey and Sons. His books are remarkable. If you compare his writing to Stephen King’s output you will know why Harold Bloom loved Dickens and never read King who he called a modern penny-dreadful writer. Dickens is amazing and everyone would enjoy reading him although the modern reader may have to read longer and more focused. This documentary is enjoyable! Thanks

@viggycat8592

Жыл бұрын

Thank you! I couldn’t agree more!

@simonedwards9450

Жыл бұрын

I love both Dickens and King. I’d disagree with Harold Bloom. King is a great writer, someone who has been a major influence on me. Harold Bloom was nothing but an ignorant moron who was in reality a sexual deviant. Will never listen to him when it comes to discussing writing. He doesn’t even have any idea what he’s talking about

@vanessamay3689

Жыл бұрын

Have only read The Curiosity Shop which was my first Dickens book. Now I know what influenced his writing this makes it special.A great novel ❤

@hirakaiko5570

4 ай бұрын

Different categories to be fair, King is genre fiction, Dickens is literary fiction. King is nuts IRL tho so maybe it's that.

Thank you for a fascinating documentary….

Wonderfully done documentary. Thank you

These documentaries are truly capital and exemplary work! 😲 Beautifully narrated and profoundly well researched, I discovered several facts not known to me as a Dickens life long admirer. My sincere thanks and God bless you sir 😊

One day, when returning from France on June 19th 1865. All of Charles Dickens's Railway Nightmares came true, until he was involved in a terrific train crash accident at Staplehurst in Kent. Ten people died in the accident. The accident would prop Dickens to write his finest Ghost Story called The Signalman.

@deedeedodo8092

Жыл бұрын

I didn't know that, thank you for sharing. I live very close to the staplehurst/Medway area and love learning even more about this great man 👍

@robnewman6101

Жыл бұрын

You're welcome.

@robnewman6101

Жыл бұрын

Have you heard of The Railway Policeman? I have the book of it.

@deedeedodo8092

Жыл бұрын

@@robnewman6101 no, I'll definitely have to check it out though!

@robnewman6101

Жыл бұрын

The Railway Policeman. The Story of the Constable on the Track. By J. R. WHITBREAD.

thanks enjoyed v much

Thank you 🌟

Great account of Dickens... Thanks

i really enjoyed this thanks

Thank you for this documentary. It is was so beautifully narrated. I believe Charles Dickens was also very in interested in magic and would give performances of magic to children on a Sunday afternoon l happen to have one of his magic programs we here he produced shiny sixpenies from a Christmas pudding. I have enjoyed all of his books, his characters are so vital and filled with curiousity. Thank you once again

Thank you a wonderful story and photographs of the man and his times.

@jessicaallen2427

2 жыл бұрын

kzread.info/dron/UxA9d6N_8b7G4IDJuc-olw.html

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. December 19th 1843.

I have always been SO SORRY that he hadn't finished " The Mystery of Edwin Drood"!

Pickwick Papers was popular serial. Inspired Louisa May Alcott and me.

Great documentary, walking in the great author's footsteps. I love Dickens.

Love this documentary.

great work

I lived on the same street that Charles Dickens lived as a kid! Bayham Street in Camden, London. I lived across the street from where he grew up. It has since been demolished and council housing is now in its place. I found this out at the local library. I was astonished. 😮 I went to the George Inn and Pub in Southwark for my birthday celebrations too! I'm a massive CD fan in case you haven't guessed by now.😜

Robert Peel (1788-1850) was the Founder of the first new Metropolitan Police Force at Scotland Yard in 1829.

Fantastic presentation...titles of accompanying background music, please...

Mr. Dickens is perhaps my favorite author.

As part of your project have you considered sharing the huge dictionary of literary biography? Some are uploaded, but most not!

@AuthorDocumentaries

2 жыл бұрын

I have not heard of that until now. Wow, 1600 authors in 375 volumes if I'm reading it right. I scanned through it. I didn't realize there were so many lost to time. I see Gutenberg has it in pdf form. I'll reference it for authors I do bios on. Thanks!

Very good video so no comment it's sharp and to the point good voice and pleased😄 to hear Dickens is immortal words reverberation is still hunting the memory of evry reader and the trader. That's all great man he was let him rest in peace sky

I have often wondered why so many Dickens characters have bizarre and comic names, even if the story is not comic. I like them, and it makes them memorable, but I have never been able to find any kind of literary explanation of why Dickens does this. It's surely one of the most recognisable aspects of his style.

What's that music in the background?

There's Another Charles Dickens Documentary I think you should upload made by the BBC maybe in 2002 or 2003 named Dickens or named uncovering the real Charles Dickens presented by Peter Ackroyd, Starring Anton Lesser as Charles Dickens, and Miriam Margolyes as Catherine Dickens.

Regin of Queen Victoria 1837-1901.

How many of his books have you read? Mine are 1. A Tale of Two Cities 2. Great Expectations 3. David Copperfield 4. A Christmas Carol 5. Nicholas Nickleby

The greatest britain has ever had

@edwinawareing2395

Жыл бұрын

I totally agree with you Gabriel , a wonderful writer. 🖊

I LOVED DICKENS' WRITING ESPECIALLY "A CHRISTMAS CAROL" I MUST HAVE READ THIS STORY 500 TIMES AND WATCHED MOVIES AND AUDIOBOOKS THE SAME. BUT LOST A GREAT AMOUNT OF RESPECT WHEN I FOUND OUT HE BELIEVED OUR (CANADIAN) INUIT ATE FRANKLIN'S CREW WITHOUT ONE SHRED OF EVIDENCE. BUT FOUND IT ALL LIES WHEN HIS TWO SHIPS WERE FOUND!!!!

Time were hard Charles Dickens reciting 10 years old and I believe in placed procedure Charles Dickens did not go to school. The City of London of big ships and Saint Pauls Cathedral dominates everything for ship building and the old father Thames and pity for thee debtors Prison and remembering works The Pickwick Papers, Oliver Twist, Nicholas Nickleby, A Christmas Carol, David Copperfield, Bleak House, Little Dorrit, A Tale of Two Cities & Great Expectations.

❤️

Great video, thank you very much , note to self(nts) watched all of it 28:32

Interesting.

Shiver my timbers 🎉 3:29 Stay Safe Stay Safe and Stay Free 4:02 ❤

Sir Arthur Wellesley (1769-1852) best known for as His Grace The 1st Duke of Wellington. Became a Prime Minister in 1828.

Bad piano... goodbye 😢

@jackwegener3484

5 күн бұрын

It's your loss.

Means nothing to me about my life... Didn't then and doesn't now...

Oliver Twist. David Copperfield.

He stipulated in his will that upon his death, his horses should be shot. They were. I have hated his work ever since!

Now Do H. G. Wells!!!

@AuthorDocumentaries

2 жыл бұрын

Here's something on Wells: kzread.info/dash/bejne/pZlol9Bmm5e9eMY.html

Also see The Dickens Museum kzread.info/dash/bejne/a3V73NSkltS7g7w.html

@AuthorDocumentaries

2 жыл бұрын

I love it!

Love this subject but this dialogue was boringly slow so didnt finish

@AuthorDocumentaries

2 жыл бұрын

The next 4 will be different presenters in different styles. Stay tuned 📺📺

@itamardias17

2 жыл бұрын

@@AuthorDocumentaries Boring? Well... I love your videos.

@deedeedodo8092

Жыл бұрын

It was just the right timing for me, sometimes the narrators speak so quickly I have to keep backtracking to take it all in. This suited me much better.

@margaretr5701

5 ай бұрын

No need to complain, you can change the speed of delivery to your preference.

A 'Charles Dickens documentary' with no mention of 'A Christmas Carol' is a bloody joke. why?????

😘

Is that Dikkens with two k’s, the noted Dutch author?

The Lifestyle of the Victorian Policeman was particularly harsh and the pay was poor.

This film is informative but glosses over the treatment of his wife and his duplicity regarding his affair... talk's cheap Charles! Action is what counts...but he was some writer.!!

This is dull.

The Zulu Dickens is of course indignant that-- solely because of White Privilege-- the works of the Zulu polymath remain unrecognised compared with Dickens' output.

Charles Dickens was not the original author of "A Christmas Carol." He didn't even improve it--he hurriedly watered down an existing manuscript for popular consumption, to avoid impending debt. Then he concocted a theatrical lie about supposedly writing it in a fit of inspiration, "walking the black streets of London many a night." The evidence can be found in my paper, entitled "Evidence That ‘A Christmas Carol’ Was Originally Written by Mathew Franklin Whittier and Abby Poyen Whittier, Rather Than by Charles Dickens," which can be downloaded from the link below, or it can be found by searching on the paper's title on Academlia.edu. www.ial.goldthread.com/MFW_APW_Carol.pdf

@AuthorDocumentaries

2 жыл бұрын

This is very interesting. I'll give it a read. If evidence exists I'm open to it.

@jacquelineharrod6386

Жыл бұрын

Absolutely untrue.

@alcoholfree6381

Жыл бұрын

Give me a break. Why moderns have to do everything possible to tear down others is beyond me! Next you’ll discover that Santa Claus, a white entitled fat guy who was gender nonspecific, really wrote all of Dickens and 50% of Shakespeare. A better thing for you to do is out-write Dickens. I will read it but really do something constructive on your own. Please.

@autumn5852

Жыл бұрын

@@jacquelineharrod6386 what’s absolutely untrue?

@jacquelineharrod6386

Жыл бұрын

@@autumn5852 His not being the author of "A Christmas Carol", a stupid and untruthful slur.