Coffee time with Droods

... well, and to welcome May:
Strawberries & whipped cream.

Beers & Books (381) – The D Case

The D Case
or
The Truth About The Mystery Of Edwin Drood

Carlo Fruttero (19 September 1926 – 15 January 2012)

Franco Lucentini (24 December 1920 – 5 August 2002)

Fruttero & Lucentini 

Charles Dickens (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870)

Beers & Books (380) – The Mystery of Edwin Drood

The Mystery of Edwin Drood

Charles Dickens (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870)

Beers & Books XXXLVIII – Londoner Skizzen

"Sketches by Boz"

Charles Dickens (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) 

George Cruikshank (27 September 1792 – 1 February 1878)

Beers & Books CCCXLVI – Dickens' Christmas tales

A Christmas Carol,
The Chimes,
The Cricket on the Hearth,
The Battle of Life,
The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain,

Charles Dickens (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870)

More Dickens

Today is the 531st birthday of Thomas Morus (Thomas More) and the 197th of Charles Dickens.

There'd be much to tell.

The first an interesting man, the second made my boyhood interesting.

That's why, as I am presently re-reading a fascinating book and thus want to cut this post short, here's a bit more Dickens:

Lucy's Song

How beautiful at eventide

To see the twilight shadows pale,

Steal o'er the landscape, far and wide,

O'er stream and meadow, mound and dale!

How soft is Nature's calm repose

When ev'ning skies their cool dews weep:

The gentlest wind more gently blows,

As if to soothe her in her sleep!

The gay morn breaks,

Mists roll away,

All Nature awakes

To glorious day.

In my breast alone

Dark shadows remain;

The peace it has known

It can never regain.

Ah, the book I am reading: The Praise of Folly.
Erasmus of Rotterdam, by the way, dedicated it to the beheaded author of 'Utopia'.
So, chin up, Thomas.