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Charles Dickens the dramatist: why it should've been an actor's life for Boz

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He wanted to be an actor, his novels are full of theatre folk, and he performed readings of his books to rapt audiences. Did you ... more

Beautiful bookshops: the world's finest, and your favourites

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Cosy and convivial or grand and gigantic, there are plenty to choose fromJoy-bringing post on Flavorwire spotlighting the world's 20 most beautiful bookstores – shops ... more

Notes and queries: How do artists make self-portraits?

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Plus: What is the best last line of a novel? Who discovered that clams are happy?How do artists make self-portraits? When we look in a ... more

Western canon rewritten as graphic novel

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Robert Crumb and Will Eisner among 130 illustrators contributing to 1,344-page condensation of all western – and some oriental – literatureFrom The Epic of Gilgamesh ... more

Gatz to deliver every word of The Great Gatsby on West End stage

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F Scott Fitzgerald novel in eight hours – play comes to London after sellout runs and ecstatic reviews around the worldAn eight-hour long play looks ... more

Have you read any Dickens?

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Dickens's biographer says children don't read his novels anymore - can we prove her wrong?