TED-Ed
Why should you read Charles Dickens? - Iseult Gillespie
2017 • E131 Dec 21, 2017 5m
The starving orphan seeking a second helping of gruel. The spinster wasting away in her tattered wedding dress. The stone-hearted miser plagued by the ghost of Christmas past. More than a century after his death, these remain recognizable figures from the work of Charles Dickens. But what are the features of Dickens’ writing that make it so special? Iseult Gillespie investigates.
Lesson by Iseult Gillespie, directed by Compote Collective.
Lesson by Iseult Gillespie, directed by Compote Collective.