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Story · Britain · 1850

David Copperfield

Name: David Copperfield scores 69 — Live Historic
Item: David Copperfield
Rating: 69
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69Worth an evening.

Long, and worth it for the marriages, if you can get past the Murdstones.

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The review

David is sent to work, beaten at school, and saved more than once by people who are not his parents. I'm not going to linger on the beatings. The Murdstones are the abuse of a household, and that is enough to say. Charles Dickens wrote a childhood, a marriage, and the work of becoming a writer. The good marriages and the bad one are the lesson I actually kept.

It is long, and I lost a week to it once. The people who take him in are the reason I'd still put it in a teen's hands. The writing life comes later. First there is a child who is not safe with the adults who hold the house, and then there are adults who make another one.

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No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

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The glance

Republic is the thin one.

Does anyone owe a neighbor, a law, or a town — or is every person out for themselves?

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The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

75 instead of 69

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is still a novel film, and it scores 75 instead of 69. What you gain is courage: Leaving is the courage, and the law of the time was against her.

The eight

8
Industry
A boy is sent to work, and the later job is becoming a writer.
9
Household
The Murdstones abuse a household; the good marriages and the bad one are the lesson.
6
Piety
People who are not his parents save him more than once.
7
Courage
He is beaten at school and sent to work, and other people take him in.
5
Republic
School and hired-out labor are the systems around the child.
6
Temperance
The bad marriage is the want that fails; the good ones are the check.
7
Truth
He becomes a writer of a childhood the Murdstones kept looking proper.
7
Stewardship
He is left the people who saved him, and the work of writing it down.

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Story · France · 1862

Les Misérables

69Worth an evening.

He steals bread, serves the years, and an inspector hunts him anyway.

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The review

Start with the bread, not with the book's fame. A man steals it, serves the years, and an inspector hunts him after. The law will not forgive that crime. A woman is driven somewhere I won't describe, and a child is raised in secret. A house can read the novel. It isn't the musical, and it isn't the 1912 film.

I lost my place. It's long, and I was already finished for the day. What stayed was the child, hidden, and a sentence that outlasts the years he served. If you begin, begin knowing the crime is hunger. Don't describe the street. Say what the law refuses.

Journal

Keep Les Misérables in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 69. Yours can differ.

The glance

Piety is the thin one.

Can conscience actually stop someone, or is reverence only in the shot so it can be mocked?

This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.

Consider this

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

75 instead of 69

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is still a novel film, and it scores 75 instead of 69. What you gain is industry: After she goes, she supports herself.

The eight

6
Industry
The crime is bread, and the years he serves are the price.
8
Household
A child is raised in secret, and that raising is a life.
5
Piety
The law's conscience will not forgive a man who stole bread.
7
Courage
He goes on hunted while a child is still raised in secret.
9
Republic
An inspector hunts him after the years for a theft of bread.
6
Temperance
He steals from hunger, not from a want you're meant to copy.
7
Truth
The years get served, and the hunt still does not let him go.
7
Stewardship
What he leaves standing is a child raised out of the hunt.

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