THE TWELVE DAYS OF DICKENS’S CHRISTMAS. Day 4. Pip’s Xmas dinner was “the scaly tips of the drumsticks of the fowls” and “those obscure corners of pork of which the pig, when living, had had the least reason to be vain”.

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Quentin Blake's wonderful drawing of nephew “And therefore, Uncle, though it has never put a scrap of gold or silver in my pocket, I believe that (Christmas) has done me good, and will do me good; and I say, God bless it!”
https://t.co/DwxbQvNnN7

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I’ve written a Christmas story for Banana Fish. Like every Xmas story it’s kind of cheesy, but I needed that😉 Read it if you like! It’s kind of a ghost story👻🎄It’s inspired by Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol”
https://t.co/Nnwm5fPFtw

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Write up in the Morning Post, Tuesday 26 December 1843.
A new book by Mr Dickens.

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Dec 20th! Here’s a 1927 edition of ‘#Christmas at Bracebridge Hall’ by Based upon the authors experiences at in and largely considered to have influenced

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in 1843, published “A Carol." Struggling to make ends meet, Dickens wrote the holiday story in just six weeks, and oversaw the printing and publishing himself. It proved to a bestseller—the first 6,000 copies printed sold out by

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classic "A Christmas Carol" was first published 1843, two years after Dickens joined as a founder member.
Here's our 1845 edition of a much-loved classic:

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Three ghosts, three lessons.
A Christmas Carol published otd in 1843.

“Men's courses will foreshadow certain ends, to which, if persevered in, they must lead," said Scrooge. "But if the courses be departed from, the ends will change.”

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«I am the ghost of Christmas of the Past» The guy that give you his virginity that last christmas... Full version of the history on Instagram

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Classic ‘storyteller’ commission complete in time for Christmas. I love this style of working and the connection it creates with the client. Beautiful way to move into the last month of what has been a genuinely amazing year for my art.

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Started sketching this out about this time last year. I’m going to try and finish it in the next couple of weeks.  

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Enjoying the sun and the last few days of nice weather before the winds will begin to blow from the north and the weather will change. Rough sketch and then a more finished painting of "Changing Seasons".

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The Folio Book of Great Short Stories ⁣
The Signalman by Charles Dickens⁣⁣
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had several beloved ravens each named Grip. One would swallow and regurgitate door keys and shatter windows with its beak. Dickens wrote a talking Grip into Barnaby Rudge -this Grip was said to have inspired Poe's The Raven...

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Happy Birthday, For this new , pair The Victorian City by the amazing with (ok, bit of self-promotion) A Boy Called Dickens. But it's cause I love so much! (the back endpapers are books!)

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Happy birthday to (arguably) the greatest writer of the Victorian era...Charles Dickens! This illustration (by ) is from our new book written by Kathleen Krull, Writers and Their Pets. Coming to you this spring!

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To celebrate Charles Dickens 207th Birthday today we wanted to give you a preview of a hot new title coming soon to the Biographics series, Biographic: Dickens. Written by This book is out April 2019 and we have for it!

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