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Semi-regular tradition since the 1990s: listening to Patrick Stewart’s stellar reading of this classic.

Re-reading for the hundredth time. A line that always echos in my head: she was “brave in ribbons” describing a woman living in poverty, doing what she can to look elegant. Brave, indeed. The dignity and empathy with which Dicken’s writes of poverty always moves me.