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Christmas with Charles Dickens
You're Dead to Me
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Dickens sometimes found plays of his work difficult to watch, once being so embarrassed by a production of Oliver Twist that he lay down on the floor of his box in the middle of the first act. He also had a very nifty marketing trick for this one where he gave his friend the playwright Albert Smith, the cricket on the hearth,. The theatrical version could open on the same day that it was published. Mike's yours would be Doddy Caddy. It sounds like a sort of nurse-made type figure, much loved and cherished. Endocinte poverty, marriage-hasing life, that kind of thing. And then you get his next Christmas book in 1846 called The
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