THE FILM (Mini Series)
DIRECTOR: Pedr James
SCREENWRITER: David Lodge
STARS: Paul Scofield, Ben Walden, John Mills, Tom Wilkinson, Pete Postlethwaite, Joan Sims
COUNTRY: Great Britain
THIS BOOK
AUTHOR: Charles Dickens
TYPE: Novel
PUBLISHER: Penguin
THIS EDITION PUBLISHED: 1994
COUNTRY: Great Britain
COVER: Paperback
THE ORIGINAL BOOK
ORIGINAL AUTHOR: As Above
YEAR FIRST PUBLISHED: 1843-44
ORIGINAL BOOK TITLE: The film title
NOTES
GENRE: Costume Drama
WORDS: I went through a Dickens phase. It was forced but, it turned out to be most pleasurable. I was stuck in Croatia for an extended period of time, in winter and I needed something to read. My Croatian reading skills are marginal, making reading (especially literature) a slow process. I went to the local book store and looked through their foreign language (in this case that would be English) section and all they had were Penguin publishing classics … and mainly Charles Dickens. I bought one (“Hard Times”) … I devoured it with delight. I bought another two (“Great Expectations” and I think “David Copperfield”) and had the same reaction. Dickens is a wonderful writer.
This is a long way of saying I haven’t read this book (or seen the TV Mini series) but Dickens I have a lot of time for.
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