Great Expectation (1998)

What is it about Charles Dickens’s A giáng sinh Carol that propels so many readers, annually, to reread the “ghost story of Christmas” and watch its many film and play productions? What is the fascination? Did people not “get it” the first time, hoặc fifth time, hoặc twentieth time? hoặc is it, simply, that people are yearly drawn to old Những người bạn with whom they have “grown up”, and who have witnessed their “growing up”; Những người bạn like Jacob Marley, Bob Cratchit, Tiny Tim, old Fezziwig, the ghosts of giáng sinh past, present, and future, and, of course, Ebenezer Scrooge. Are people not...

A Tribute to Charles Dickens


Way back in the seventies, we had no advanced technology, no video easily available, and no Internet. Yet we had what no video hoặc movie can impart. The power of the written word.
My father was an avid reader, and to form the đọc habit in us he would take us, every Saturday morning to the Pak-American book cửa hàng on the Elphiniston đường phố, street (now Zebunnissa street) and let us choose whatever sách we fancied. Today I thank Allah for blessing us with such a wonderful father.
I did not watch many of the great Victorian’s phim chiếu rạp in my childhood , but I could describe,...