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What is it about Charles Dickens’s A 圣诞节 Carol that propels so many readers, annually, to reread the “ghost story of Christmas” and watch its many film and play productions? What is the fascination? Did people not “get it” the first time, 或者 fifth time, 或者 twentieth time? 或者 is it, simply, that people are yearly drawn to old 老友记 with whom they have “grown up”, and who have witnessed their “growing up”; 老友记 like Jacob Marley, Bob Cratchit, Tiny Tim, old Fezziwig, the ghosts of 圣诞节 past, present, and future, and, of course, Ebenezer Scrooge. Are people not...
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posted by saba2016
A Tribute to Charles Dickens


Way back in the seventies, we had no advanced technology, no 视频 easily available, and no Internet. Yet we had what no video 或者 movie can impart. The power of the written word.
My father was an avid reader, and to form the 阅读 habit in us he would take us, every Saturday morning to the Pak-American book 商店 on the Elphiniston 街, 街道 (now Zebunnissa street) and let us choose whatever 图书 we fancied. Today I thank Allah for blessing us with such a wonderful father.
I did not watch many of the great Victorian’s 电影院 in my childhood , but I could describe,...
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