"Dickens enjoyed reading as a youth. Dickens was the most popular novelist of his time, and remains one of the best-known and most-read of English authors. His works have never gone out of print, and have been adapted continually for the screen since the invention of cinema, with at least 200 motion pictures and TV adaptations based on Dickens's works documented. Many of his works were adapted for the stage during his own lifetime, and as early as 1913, a silent film of ""The Pickwick Papers"" was made. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded"
"and Sevenoaks . The pattern of speech in some of Charles Dickens' books pertain to Kentish dialect, as the author lived at Higham was familiar with the mudflats near Rochester and created a comic character Sam Weller who spoke the local accent, principally Kentish but with strong London influences. The area around Aylesham in Kent has a completely different dialect, as most of the residents of the area moved from other coalfields to work at the new collieries sunk in Kent during a period when employment in mining had been falling nationally. As the miners came from areas of Scotland,"
"Sam Weller (journalist) Sam Weller (born January 31, 1967) is an American journalist and author, best known for being writer Ray Bradbury's authorized biographer. Weller's 2005 book, ""The Bradbury Chronicles: The Life of Ray Bradbury"" (HarperCollins) is a full-biography while his 2010 ""Listen to the Echoes, The Ray Bradbury Interviews"" (Melville House Publishing) is a collection of interviews, photos, mementos, and artifacts. Weller's 2014 ""Ray Bradbury: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations"" (Melville House Publishing) features his last interview with Bradbury, and recounts Bradbury's influences, creative processes, and love for writing and reading. Weller was born in Lake Forest, Illinois."
"Chair and an associate professor in the Department of Creative Writing at Columbia College, Chicago. Sam Weller (journalist) Sam Weller (born January 31, 1967) is an American journalist and author, best known for being writer Ray Bradbury's authorized biographer. Weller's 2005 book, ""The Bradbury Chronicles: The Life of Ray Bradbury"" (HarperCollins) is a full-biography while his 2010 ""Listen to the Echoes, The Ray Bradbury Interviews"" (Melville House Publishing) is a collection of interviews, photos, mementos, and artifacts. Weller's 2014 ""Ray Bradbury: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations"" (Melville House Publishing) features his last interview with Bradbury, and recounts Bradbury's influences,"
"misunderstandings, he inadvertently leads his landlady, Mrs. Bardell, to believe he has proposed marriage to her. Pickwick is charged with breach of promise and hauled into court, where he is found guilty as charged and sentenced to prison when he stubbornly refuses to pay her compensation. Pickwick (1969 film) Pickwick is a British television musical made by the BBC in 1969 and based on the stage musical ""Pickwick"", which in turn was based on ""The Pickwick Papers"" written by Charles Dickens. It stars Harry Secombe as Samuel Pickwick and Roy Castle as Sam Weller. This television production was based on"
"Pickwick (1969 film) Pickwick is a British television musical made by the BBC in 1969 and based on the stage musical ""Pickwick"", which in turn was based on ""The Pickwick Papers"" written by Charles Dickens. It stars Harry Secombe as Samuel Pickwick and Roy Castle as Sam Weller. This television production was based on the stage musical ""Pickwick"" which had been a commercial success. It was adapted for the screen by James Gilbert and Jimmy Grafton. The musical had been produced by Bernard Delfont and had premiered in the West End in 1963, again with Harry Secombe in the lead"
"fiction taking place circa 1600. It became one of the many famous coaching inns in the days of Charles Dickens, and it was here that Sam Weller met Mr. Pickwick in the famous scene from ""The Pickwick Papers"", chapter 10. The Inn was pulled down in the 19th century. It was next door to The George Inn and near the site of The Tabard. Also in Southwark, but approximately 0.5 km to the west, the White Hart at 22 Great Suffolk Street was built in 1882. It survived redevelopment of the surrounding area and is now the only Victorian public"
"than one. They are found in a number of languages, including Armenian, French, Georgian, Kasena of Ghana, and Pashto of Afghanistan and Pakistan. Wellerism Wellerisms, named after sayings of Sam Weller in Charles Dickens's novel ""The Pickwick Papers"", make fun of established clichés and proverbs by showing that they are wrong in certain situations, often when taken literally. In this sense, wellerisms that include proverbs are a type of anti-proverb. Typically a wellerism consists of three parts: a proverb or saying, a speaker, and an often humorously literal explanation. Sam Weller's propensity to use the types of constructions now called"
"office with specimens of their work for Dickens's inspection. The novelist preferred Browne. Browne's first two etched plates for Pickwick were signed ""Nemo"", but the third was signed ""Phiz"", a pseudonym which was retained in future. When asked to explain why he chose this name he answered that the change from ""Nemo"" to ""Phiz"" was made to harmonize better with Dickens's ""Boz"". Phiz developed the character Sam Weller graphically just as Seymour had developed Pickwick. Dickens and Phiz became good friends and in 1838 travelled together to Yorkshire to see the schools of which Nicholas Nickleby became the hero: afterwards"
"act upon the performances of Alfred Vance, a cockney comedian from the beginnings of the English music hall tradition. Chevalier also drew inspiration from the London characters of Charles Dickens, including Sam Weller, whom Chevalier had played unsuccessfully in a touring show. For the tour, he updated the character by modernising the dialogue and mixing it with the performance style used by mid-century cockney performers, including Vance. The changes resulted in Chevalier inventing a new, sentimental variation of Vance's ""criminal coster"", which was loosely based on a working-class Londoner. Chevalier's failure in the theatre was instrumental in his decision to"
"In Your Dreams (novel) In Your Dreams is a fantasy novel by the British novelist Tom Holt. It is the second book featuring the J. W. Wells magic firm, and was published in 2004: J. W. Wells is inspired by the title character in Gilbert and Sullivan's ""The Sorcerer"". Paul Carpenter is the protagonist of the book. The book is summarized in the next book in the series Earth, Air, Fire, and Custard where Paul tells his uncle about what happened to him. So Paul told him all about it: how he'd got a job as a junior clerk with"
"Wellerism Wellerisms, named after sayings of Sam Weller in Charles Dickens's novel ""The Pickwick Papers"", make fun of established clichés and proverbs by showing that they are wrong in certain situations, often when taken literally. In this sense, wellerisms that include proverbs are a type of anti-proverb. Typically a wellerism consists of three parts: a proverb or saying, a speaker, and an often humorously literal explanation. Sam Weller's propensity to use the types of constructions now called ""wellerisms"" have inspired plays; sometimes, the playwrights have created even more wellerisms. A type of wellerism called a Tom Swifty incorporates a speaker"
"by paying her costs in the action against himself, thus at the same time releasing himself from the prison. Always on hand to save the day is his able manservant Sam Weller; the relationship between the idealistic and unworldly Pickwick and the astute cockney Weller has been likened to that between Don Quixote and Sancho Panza. By the end of the novel Pickwick looks upon Sam Weller almost as a son, a feeling which is reciprocated by Sam. The French composer Claude Debussy dedicated to this character a humorous piano piece: ""Hommage à S. Pickwick Esq. P.P.M.P.C."" (n. 9 of"
"Sam, Kangaroo Kit, Yreka Jim, Denver Doll, and Lady Kate. Edward Lytton Wheeler Edward Lytton Wheeler (1854/5 – 1885) was a nineteenth century American writer of dime novels. One of his most famous characters is the Wild West rascal Deadwood Dick. Wheeler was born in Avoca, New York and later managed a theater company in Philadelphia. He created the seminal character of Deadwood Dick, during a period when the country was fascinated by the Black Hills region of the American west after Custer’s defeat at Little Bighorn. Wheeler had never been to the Black Hills. He originally created Deadwood Dick"
"and his family visited Italy in 1843, Fred joined them for a period, but his visit almost turned to tragedy when he got into difficulties while swimming in the sea and had to be rescued by local fishermen. In 1845, the 25-year-old Fred Dickens fell in love with 15-year-old Anna Weller, a match that Charles disapproved of, as he did not trust the girl. His attitude caused a breach between the brothers, Charles believing by now that Fred possessed all the worst qualities of their father. Fred married Anna on 30 December 1848 despite Charles's misgivings, but in 1858 the"
"Burroughs's novel ""Naked Lunch"" (1991). Aside from a Saturn Award nomination for his ""RoboCop"" role, Weller received an Academy Award nomination for his 1993 short ""Partners,"" in which he also acted. In television, he hosted the program ""Engineering an Empire"" on the History Channel from 2005 to 2007. He also played Christopher Henderson in the fifth season of ""24"", Stan Liddy in the fifth season of the Showtime original series ""Dexter"", as well as Charles ""Charlie"" Barosky in 11 episodes in (Season 6) of Kurt Sutter 's long running ""Sons of Anarchy"". Since 2012, Weller has been involved in the"
"the book suffered from lackluster sales. The collection included: The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County ""The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County"" is an 1865 short story by Mark Twain. It was his first great success as a writer and brought him national attention. The story has also been published as ""Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog"" (its original title) and ""The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County"". In it, the narrator retells a story he heard from a bartender, Simon Wheeler, at the Angels Hotel in Angels Camp, California, about the gambler Jim Smiley. The narrator describes him:"
"bootleg copies, theatrical performances, Sam Weller joke books, and other merchandise. After the publication, the widow of Robert Seymour claimed that the idea for the novel was originally her husband's; however, in his preface to the 1867 edition, Dickens strenuously denied any specific input, writing that ""Mr Seymour never originated or suggested an incident, a phrase, or a word, to be found in the book."" Dickens, a young writer, 24 years old, was working as a Parliamentary reporter and a roving journalist; a collection of his ""colour"" sketches mainly of London life had been published as ""Sketches by Boz"". A"
"play suppressed. This play was the root of the argument in which Jonson killed Gabriel Spencer in 1598, at Hoxton fields. ""Eastward Hoe"" (1605) was equally scandalous, and resulted in the arrest of the playwrights. Charles Dickens (1812–70), throughout his work, draws extensively on his experiences of poverty in London. His godfather had a sail making business in Limehouse, and he based the ""Six Jolly Fellowship Porters"" in ""Our Mutual Friend"" (1864–65) on a public house still standing there. The Red Bull, a now demolished inn situated in Whitechapel, features in his ""Pickwick Papers"". On leaving it Sam Weller makes"
"him the focus of a dime novel series. The first episode was the first issue of Beadles Half-dime Library. After the Civil War, dime novels were an extremely popular form of fiction. Wheeler mastered their formulaic style and was able to write dozens of them. He created around one hundred novels, of which 33 featured Deadwood Dick, and of these, Calamity Jane--a real-life wild west entertainer--appeared as a character in nearly half. Other real life people such as Sitting Bull also appeared in the stories. He also wrote story series with a number of other characters including Rosebud Bob, Sierra"
"the compensation to her — because he doesn't want to give a penny to Mrs Bardell's lawyers, the unscrupulous firm of Messrs. Dodson and Fogg. The generally humorous tone is here briefly replaced by biting social satire (including satire of the legal establishment). This foreshadows major themes in Dickens's later books. Mr Pickwick, Sam Weller, and Weller Senior also appear in Dickens's serial, ""Master Humphrey's Clock"". The novel has been adapted to film, television, and radio: In 1985 BBC released a 12-part 350-minute miniseries starring Nigel Stock, Alan Parnaby, Clive Swift and Patrick Malahide. According to Retrospect Opera, there was"
"an edition from Grattan of Nicholas Nickleby (1839) which Dickens referred to in a letter of 13 July 1838 commenting on ‘""the singular Vileness of the Illustrations""’ (Letters of Charles Dickens, 1.414). Onwhyn married Marian in 1866 and they had sons Thomas and Herbert. Thomas Onwhyn Thomas Onwhyn (c.1811 - 21 January 1886) was an English artist, illustrator, engraver, satirist, and cartoonist. He also published an illustrated pirate edition of ""The Pickwick Papers"" in 1837 under the pen-name of ""Samuel Weller"", after Dicken's character in the book. He may have also used other pseudonyms including ""Peter Paul Palette"". He also"
"Wells, writing in 1899 in his novel ""The Sleeper Awakes"", has his main character, Graham, ram one of the enemy's aeroplanes with his flying apparatus, causing it to fall out of the sky. A second enemy machine ceases its attack, afraid of being rammed in turn. In 1909, the airship was imagined as an ""aerial battleship"" by several observers who wrote about the possibility of using an extended ramming pole to attack other airships, and to swing an anchor or other mass on a cable below the airship as a blunt force attack against ground-based targets such as buildings and"
"of the Bull Inn, where the Pickwickians take a coach to Ipswich. En route, driving along Whitechapel Road, Sam Weller opines that it is ""not a wery nice neighbourhood"" and notes the correlation between poverty and the abundance of oyster stalls here. One of Fagin's dens in Dickens's ""Oliver Twist"" was located in Whitechapel and Fagin, himself, was possibly based on a notorious local 'fence' named Ikey Solomon (1785–1850). Whitechapel is also the setting of several novels by Jewish authors such as ""Children of the Ghetto"" and ""The King of Schnorrers"" by Israel Zangwill and ""Jew Boy"" by Simon Blumenfeld."
"an April 1890 Broadway Theatre revival of ""The Mikado"", and in April 1897 played the strong-willed mother-in law of Dr. Willow (Digby Bell) in Thomas's play ""The Hoosier Doctor"". In 1903, she was with her husband as Mrs Bardell and Sam Weller in the long run of ""Mr. Pickwick"" (from the Charles Dickens novel, ""The Pickwick Papers"") at the Herald Square Theatre (also starring De Wolf Hopper) and later the Grand Opera House. With Taylor, Bell had two sons, Valentine and Herbert. The first, Valentine Taylor (7 November 1874 – 3 May 1943), was a Harvard-educated lawyer who served as"
"Garr). Weller has appeared in more than 50 films and television series, including turns as the title characters in ""The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension"", and blockbuster hits ""RoboCop"" and ""RoboCop 2"", as well as ""Star Trek Into Darkness"" in 2013. He has also appeared in such critically acclaimed films as Woody Allen's ""Mighty Aphrodite"", the Oliver Stone-produced ""The New Age"" and David Cronenberg's movie of William Burroughs's novel ""Naked Lunch"". In 1995, he appeared in ""Screamers"", a science-fiction film based on the short story ""Second Variety"" by Philip K. Dick and directed by Christian Duguay. In"
"their eight children, was born in 1812. As a young boy he was taught to read by his mother, and later also a little Latin, awakening, as Charles later told his friend and biographer John Forster ""his first desire for knowledge and his earliest passion for reading"". According to Mary Weller, the Dickenses' servant when they were living in Chatham, Elizabeth Dickens was ""a dear, good mother and a fine woman"". By 1812 her husband had fallen heavily into debt and Elizabeth, like Mrs Micawber in ""David Copperfield"", tried to help his financial situation by setting up a school called"
"The Sleeper Awakes The Sleeper Awakes (1910) is a dystopian science fiction novel by English writer H. G. Wells, about a man who sleeps for two hundred and three years, waking up in a completely transformed London where he has become the richest man in the world. The main character awakes to see his dreams realised, and the future revealed to him in all its horrors and malformities. The novel is a rewritten version of When the Sleeper Wakes, a story by Wells that was serialised between 1898 and 1899. The novel was originally published, as ""When the Sleeper Wakes"","
"2010, Weller guest-starred in an episode of the science fiction drama ""Fringe"". He also guest-starred on the Showtime original series ""Dexter"", and had a guest appearance in the December 22, 2010 episode of ""Psych"" where he played villain ""Yin"" Since 2012, he is appearing in a recurring role as Lucien Connally on the crime drama television series ""Longmire"". In 2013, he played the part of the villain in the remake of the ""Hookman"" episode of the original ""Hawaii Five-O"". The part was originally played in 1973 by J. J. Armes. In seasons six and seven of ""Sons of Anarchy"", he"
"in Whitechapel, features in his ""Pickwick Papers"". On leaving it Sam Weller makes the sage remark that Whitechapel is ""not a wery nice neighbourhood"". Fagin in Dickens's ""Oliver Twist"" appears to be based on a notorious 'fence' named Ikey Solomon (1785–1850) who operated in 1820's Whitechapel. Dickens was also a frequent visitor to the East End theatres and music halls of Hoxton, Shoreditch and Whitechapel, writing of his visits in his journals and his journalism. A visit he made to an opium den in Bluegate Fields inspired certain scenes in his last, unfinished, novel ""The Mystery of Edwin Drood"" (1870)."
"one short story ""The Lamplighter's Story"". Other contributors included William Harrison Ainsworth, Thomas Moore, Leitch Ritchie and Agnes Strickland. Macrone's widow eventually received 450 pounds from this charitable publication. Mary Weller, Charles Dickens's nurse, recalling her famous charge's occupations as a child, said: ""Little Charles was a terrible boy to read"". ""In the young Charles Dickens's reading we have in some ways the very core of his novels...the young Charles came upon the great picaresque novels of the eighteenth century — ""Roderick Random"", ""Peregrine Pickle"", ""Humphry Clinker"", ""Tom Jones"", ""The Vicar of Wakefield"", their French counterpart ""Gil Blas"", and their"
"Sam Wells (filmmaker) Sam Wells (November 4, 1950 – June 3, 2011) was an American experimental filmmaker and photographer based in Princeton, New Jersey. He is best known for the film ""Wired Angel"" (1999), an avant-garde feature inspired by the life and trial of Joan of Arc. Filmed on high-contrast black-and-white reversal film and featuring a musical score written by Academy Award-winning composer Joe Renzetti, ""Wired Angel"" was well received at underground film festivals in both Chicago and New York, with Film Threat magazine naming it one of the best unseen films of 2001. Wells' 1990 short film ""The Talking"
"Pickwick (musical) Pickwick is a musical with a book by Wolf Mankowitz, music by Cyril Ornadel, and lyrics by Leslie Bricusse. Based on ""The Pickwick Papers"" by Charles Dickens, it is set in and around London and Rochester in 1828. Produced by Bernard Delfont, ""Pickwick"" premiered in the West End in 1963, with Harry Secombe in the lead role and choreography by Gillian Lynne. Set in England in 1828, the story centres on wealthy Samuel Pickwick and his valet Sam Weller, who are in a debtors' prison where they recall the misadventures that led to their imprisonment. On the previous"