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Happy 200th birthday, Charles Dickens…
Charles Dickens was born on this date in 1812. I have fond memories of immersing myself in Dickens classics like “Oliver Twist,” “Great Expectations,” and “A Tale of Two Cities.”
When I was young we read Dickens. In school. At home. He was part of growing up.
Do our youth still read Dickens? When they do, do they really understand what they are reading? A prominent Dickens biographer has her doubts on that. She doesn’t think that a lot of our young people today have the attention spans to actually comprehend his work. To read more click HERE:
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By Miss Havisham
February 7, 2012 4:44 PM | Link to this
Two hundred years?Where did the time go? Happy Birthday, Mr. Dickens.
By steven69
February 7, 2012 3:50 PM | Link to this
You dont look a day over 199.happy birthday.
By HLee
February 7, 2012 3:08 PM | Link to this
I’d agree and raise her one. Most kids don’t have the attention span needed to read the back of a packet of Ramen noodles. But we have to remember that Dickens wasn’t written for children. Dickens was mostly serialized in magazine articles written for adult readers. I think it’s a mistake to force-feed Dickens to the young. Even very accesible stories such as A Christmas Carol are full of long words and odd Victorian digressions — delightful to an adult who has a little background in reading, but surely agonizing to a kid wild to get back to World of Warcraft.
By prose
February 7, 2012 2:49 PM | Link to this
I see a lot of young people on smart phones and very few reading books by anyone these days. Call me a pessimist, but outside Rowling and some ‘vampire’ authors, I’d wager few youths have read any Dickens, Shakespeare, Tolstoy or Twain. Gee, I hope I’m wrong.