DIVERSE BERICHTEN
Het gebeurt niet vaak meer dat Dickens als
"hot news" in de media verschijnt, maar
het is de BBC met haar versoapte serie van
Bleak House toch gelukt. Ik weet niet hoe
het u verging, maar bij de aankondiging
dat de BBC bezig was om een serie van
Bleak House met sex te maken, om zo meer
kijkers te trekken hield ik mijn hart vast.
Inmiddels zijn er half november een aantal
afleveringen vertoond en ik moet zeggen
dat het me alleszins meevalt. Bleak House
is nu eenmaal niet één van de makkelijkste
boeken van Dickens en al helemaal niet
Dickens book sales boosted by TV
Answers: See page 33
eenvoudig te
verfilmen, maar tot
nu toe zit ik
tweemaal in de
week aan het
scherm gekluisterd.
Hieronder heb ik
wat nieuws
vergaard over de
serie en het schijnt
dat zelfs de
boekverkoop er
ook wel bij vaart.
Een rublriek voor mededelingen op het laatste moment of waar de redactie
geen raad mee weet.
Winter 2005 no. 55
11."Wait and hope, we always say. And she would
wait, till she was sixty".
12."We must meet reverses boldly. We must live
misfortunes down".
13."Generally speaking, I don't like boys".
14."Come fresh up to lessons. I advise you, for I
come fresh up to the punishment".
15.'I am alone lorn creatur'and everythink goes
contrairy with me".
16.~'But when the worst comes to the worst, no
man is 18."I hide the girls in the day-time, and
make merry with them in the evening".
19."With the exception of my limbs and my breath,
hows'ever, I am a hearty as a mancan be, I'm
thankful to say".
20."She is the most wonderful woman in the
world, sir".
21."We umble ones have got eyes, mostly speaking
- and we look out of 'em".
22.' "Oh the river, oh the river".
23."The thanks one gets for taking care of one's
family! I wish I was a Turk!"
24."I have loved you all my life".
25."Indeed, sir? But you are very young!"
26."He came in here, ordererd a glass of this ale -
would order it -1 told him not - drank it and fell
dead. It was too old for him. It oughtn't to be
drawn; that's the fact".
27.'Think of me at my best, if circumstances
should ever part us".
28."But lawyers, sharks and leeches, are not easily
satsfied, you know".
29."Call upon me to swallow a sword tomorrow,
Sales of Charles Dickens' novel Bleak House have
risen in the wake of the BBC's star-studded TV
adaptation. More than 5,000 copies have been sold
and I'll do it. With an appetite!"
30."I can't be buyer and seller too, put a price on
here this weskit".
31."It was as true as turnips. It was as true as taxes
is. And nothing's truer than them".
32."There's an account about the people being
hungry and discontented down in the North, but
they are always being hungry and discontented
somewhere".
33."I suppose history never lies, does it?"
34."I feel it more".
35."Have you read it? No? Would you loike to hear
it read?"
36."It's one of the drawbacks of our line of
business. When a party is ill, we can't ask how the
party is".
37."Do you care for taters? Young gentlemen
generally has been overdosed with taters".
38."With the exception of a heel of Dutch cheese,
which is not adapted to the wants of a young
family, there is really not a scrap of anything in the
larder".
39."Don't call the woman by that South Sea name".
40."If you had been in the Commons as long as I
have, you would know that there is no subject on
which men are so inconsistent, and so little to be
trusted".
in the last four weeks, according to industry
tracker Nielsen Bookscan. The book is currently at
number 46 in the paperback fiction bestseller list.
Sales of other Dickens titles have also risen, a
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