Every once in a while I grab something from the suggestion box presented by Affiliate Content and this is one of those occasions. In this case, it’s my favorite thing. I have one for sure and that would be Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens. I first read the book when when I was 5 years […]
Tag Archives: Artful Dodger
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Mar
Mar
It all started in 1970 with a German group called KRAFTWERK! A dozen bands arrived and spent four years experimenting with electronic devices such as the Minimoog, the ARP Odyssey and the EMS Synthi AKS and inventing their own devices. In 1974 they released the classic album “Autobahn”. This album contained the world’s first 22-minute […]
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Singer, songwriter, drummer, keyboardist and actor, Philip Collins was born in London, England in 1951. Before his musical career took off, Phil was a child actor, who appeared as the Artful Dodger in the London production of Oliver. He also appeared as an extra in the Beatles film, “A Hard Day’s Night” in 1964 and […]
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The Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834 was a favorite target for Charles Dickens; he never missed a chance to call attention to the law’s brutality or to deride its National Commissioners, its Boards of Guardians, and its petty officials (Brown 154). Few, of his major works fail to fire at least some satiric shots […]
Charles Dickens is my favorite author. Being a novelist myself, I learn from him all the time, which some editors will probably say is a mistake since “nobody writes this way anymore,” but I don’t care. He is one of the best, and his stories are absolutely unique. When I had begun putting together my […]
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Literature of the 19th century contains many a thief, but to paraphrase L. Frank Baum: Is it a good thief or a bad thief? In the event that you are shaking your head and wondering how in the world there could even be such a thing as a good thief, you must remind yourself of […]