You don't know Dickens

April 14, 2007 5:50 PM

There are many ways to learn about the life and times of Charles Dickens. There are numerous web pages, biographies and movies. But can any of them compare to the immersion experience of Dickens World. Don't miss the many attractions. The kids will love playing in Fagin's Den while you visit the Haunted House of Ebenezer Scrooge. And don't leave too early or you'll miss the evening's entertainment. "A series of 'burlesque' evening dinner shows are being especially created to provide a nightly menu of 'naughty delights' in the 'Free and Easy' Victorian Music Hall."
posted by saffry (10 comments total)

BTW --- be sure to check out these related threads: 1, 2, 3.
posted by ericb at 6:00 PM on April 14, 2007

What the Dickens?!
posted by vacapinta at 6:02 PM on April 14, 2007

Eagerly awaiting ConradWorld.
posted by thivaia at 6:03 PM on April 14, 2007

Ahh yes, I can picture the restaurant now...
posted by miss lynnster at 6:07 PM on April 14, 2007

Waiting for SommeWorld myself.
posted by Razzle Bathbone at 6:24 PM on April 14, 2007

Dickens World.. Disney World.. if you can build a theme part around Brothers Grimm, why not Dickens.
posted by stbalbach at 6:26 PM on April 14, 2007

I've been to BeckettWorld. It is only open at night. It is a vacant lot in the outskirts of Tuskaloosa, Alabama. There is a pit in the middle. In the pit there is a single black shoe.

In the distance, someone is playing Neil Diamond.
posted by nasreddin at 6:45 PM on April 14, 2007 [1 favorite]

Chapter the third: I am nailed to the hull
posted by longsleeves at 8:58 PM on April 14, 2007

Charles Dickens Museum - London
Charles Dickens Museum - Portsmouth
posted by Leon at 9:02 PM on April 14, 2007

There's been a 700 page biography of Dickens sitting on my nightstand for the past two years that I want to read, but I feel like I need to read at least a couple of novels by him before I do that. I haven't read any Dickens since I read Oliver Twist and David Copperfield 15-20 years ago in Icelandic translation. I need to get my Dickens in gear.
posted by Kattullus at 9:08 AM on April 15, 2007