Bleak House

What is it about Charles Dickens’s A natal 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, atau fifth time, atau twentieth time? atau is it, simply, that people are yearly drawn to old friends with whom they have “grown up”, and who have witnessed their “growing up”; friends like Jacob Marley, Bob Cratchit, Tiny Tim, old Fezziwig, the ghosts of natal 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 atau movie can impart. The power of the written word.
My father was an avid reader, and to form the membaca habit in us he would take us, every Saturday morning to the Pak-American book toko on the Elphiniston jalan, street (now Zebunnissa street) and let us choose whatever buku we fancied. Today I thank Allah for blessing us with such a wonderful father.
I did not watch many of the great Victorian’s film in my childhood , but I could describe,...