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Corporate book club welcomes authors
Our story
We are all employees of Nicor Gas, based in Naperville. Our book club began in 1992 when a handful of employees decided to gather informally during lunch to discuss books. Our club has since expanded to 38 employees, including four retirees. We...Tags: Employees, Michael Collins, Thomas Edison, Clubs and Associations, Companies and Corporations
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Book review: 'The Selected Letters of Charles Dickens'
The Selected Letters of Charles Dickens Edited by Jenny Hartley Oxford University Press: 458 pp., $34.95 This is the bicentennial year of Charles Dickens' birth. We need no reminder of his eminence as novelist, but there are celebrations of his other...
Tags: Hans Christian Andersen, Genres, Washington Irving, Book, Charles Dickens
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Lifeline announces 2012-13 season, including 'The Woman in White'
Lifeline Theatre will stage a new adaptation of "The Woman in White," the 1899 English ghost story by Wilkie Collins that previously became the main source of an Andrew Lloyd Webber musical, as the opening production of its fall season. Robert Kauzlaric's...Tags: Fiction, Entertainment Events, Music Theater, Rogers Park, Entertainment
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Charles Dickens' 200th birthday: Ralph Fiennes helps set the stage
Culture MonsterCharles Dickens: Tuesday marks the bicentennial of Charles Dickens' birth. Britain's National Film Theatre is holding a retrospective, and a ceremony will be held at London's Westminster Abbey starring actor-director Ralph Fiennes, who, along with... -
A chat with Robin Ellis, the man who was Poldark
Show TrackerA few weeks back I wrote about "Poldark," a BBC series from the mid-1970s that had recently been released in a complete-set package on DVD (by Acorn Media), as a cure for "Downton Abbey" withdrawal. A tale of romance and class war, of tradition and... -
Recalling a Friend and a Great Librarian
The Daily Mirrorhis is Elizabeth C. Franklin or Miss Franklin to those of us who worked for her. It wasn't until she loaned me her precious Film Index of 1941 with her name written inside that I learned she had once been...... -
Chicagoland book club
Things to know about our club: Women Who Read has been in existence for 14 years, beginning as a small group of co-workers who then brought along friends and neighbors. We're a diverse group, with careers ranging from artist to scientist, but our love...Tags: Book, Dan Brown , Clubs and Associations, Amy Tan, Bars and Clubs
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From the Vaults: 'Crimes at the Dark House' (1940)
The Daily MirrorWe have commenter Fibber McGee to thank for this week's movie. Also, I have a new boyfriend, and his name is Tod Slaughter! (Both of those are real names! Oh, OK... Tod's real first name was Norman...) I read Wilkie Collins' "The Woman in White" many... -
A riddle in three dimensions
![<b>Semi-spoiler alert: </b>Some of Kate Summerscale's conclusions in "The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher" are presented but not all.](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2008-07/39395930-02135336.gif "<b>Semi-spoiler alert: </b>Some of Kate Summerscale's conclusions in "The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher\" are presented but not all.")
Semi-spoiler alert: Some of Kate Summerscale's conclusions in "The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher" are presented but not all.
Modern detectives trace their lineage in world literature to Oedipus, whose search for his true identity has made him, to some...Tags: Murder, Manhattan (New York City), Children, Punishment, Family
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The Siren's Call: New narratives, old myths
![Myth is an extremely rich vein that writers have always mined. This year was no exception, as demonstrated by <b>Kate Summerscale's </b>splendid nonfiction study of a 19th century murder, <b>"The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher" </b>(Walker: 380 pp., $24.95).](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2008-12/43748374-05164152.gif "Myth is an extremely rich vein that writers have always mined. This year was no exception, as demonstrated by <b>Kate Summerscale's </b>splendid nonfiction study of a 19th century murder, <b>"The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher\" </b>(Walker: 380 pp., $24.95).")
Myth is an extremely rich vein that writers have always mined. This year was no exception, as demonstrated by Kate Summerscale's splendid nonfiction study of a 19th century murder, "The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher" (Walker: 380 pp., $24.95).
In 1860, the...Tags: Murder, Entertainment, Dan Brown , New York, Family
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'Drood' by Dan Simmons and 'The Last Dickens' by Matthew Pearl
![So, Charles Dickens' great fragment, "The Mystery of Edwin Drood," has been finished by a contemporary writer?](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2009-02/45275032-27144248-100116.gif "So, Charles Dickens' great fragment, "The Mystery of Edwin Drood,\" has been finished by a contemporary writer?")
So, Charles Dickens' great fragment, "The Mystery of Edwin Drood," has been finished by a contemporary writer?
That's what I thought, eyeing the titles of Dan Simmons' and Matthew Pearl's new novels.
At last.
The story of Dickens' final book is...Tags: Edmund Wilson, Murder, Dan Brown , Adultery, Trips and Vacations
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Rediscovering early fictional America detective James Brampton
It is a truth universally acknowledged that after Edgar Allan Poe's mysterious death in 1849, detective fiction did not make another splash on these shores until a pipe-smoking Englishman with remarkable powers of deduction became a transatlantic...Tags: Crime (genre), Murder, Moby, Book, Herman Melville
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