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From Pickwick to Scrooge, Copperfield to Twist, how did Dickens find the perfect names for his characters? What was Dickens' favourite way of killing his characters? When is a Dickens character most likely to see a ghost? Why is Dickens’ trickery only fully realised when his novels are read aloud? In 13 entertaining and wonderfully insightful essays, John Mullan explores the literary machinations of Dickens’ eccentric genius, from his delight in clichés to his rendering of smells and his outrageous use of coincidences.

As we have seen with the recent COVID-19 pandemic, disaster preparedness is not a luxury. Everyone from Louis Pasteur to the Girl Scouts has championed the motto “Be Prepared”—but what does that mean in today’s constantly changing world? In this age of anxiety, when reports of mass...

Es ist ein Jammer. Da wird nur eine einzige, aussichtsreiche Stelle ausgeschrieben, und schon hagelt es Bewerbungsschreiben. Zu Tausenden trudeln sie umgehend, auch verspätet ein, um in erster Linie aussortiert zu werden. Es hapert an auffälligen Kleinigkeiten, die auf den ersten Blick ins Auge fallen und damit die Chance verbauen, dass ihr Inhalt wahrgenommen wird.