Dickens's irresistible compulsion to create whole parades of unforgettable grotesques and his magnificent crusading rage against injustice all keep the pages turning. The stage management of events is pretty shameless, but it's as enjoyable as a 1930s Hollywood movie. Despite the bleak and terrible realities Dickens describes – the savagery of the regime at Dotheboys Hall, the depravities of Sir Mulberry Hawk and the implacable destructiveness of Ralph Nickleby – it has the sweep and gusto of a great melodrama. I was initially attracted to the book for obvious reasons: I was an actor, and the glorious celebration of the theatre, not just in the episodes concerning Vincent Crummles and his troupe of down-at-heel showpeople but in the whole form and structure of the book, exhilarated me, and it still does. Dickens started writing Nicholas Nickleby only a year after Pickwick, as part of that astonishing trio of novels (of which the middle one was Oliver Twist) that he knocked off in a breathless 18 months, and it partakes of the same ebullient energy and free-wheeling inventiveness as the earlier book.
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Many translations of the Christian Bible carry copyright restrictions. To be able to pretend his version is the ancient version when it works for marketing purposes, but then to consider a brand new work when it comes to copyright. Basically, it looks like Mitchell wants the best of both worlds. If true, there certainly could be a new copyright on the work, though it does seem a bit odd to rewrite it, and then still call it the Tao Te Ching. “Accordingly, Mitchell’s book is a highly original work.” So new that it’s not actually a translation at all, but more or less his own version of what he thought the Tao Te Ching really meant:Īs a result, “rather than provide a literal translation, the book embodies language that conveys Mitchell’s version of Lao-tzu’s meaning and the spirit of his teaching,” the complaint says. But, of course, if the Tao Te Ching is from two plus millennia ago, what’s the copyright claim? Well, it turns out that Mitchell is now claiming that his new English version is very new indeed. The Hollywood Reporter has the news that Wayne Dyer, a “self-help” guru, has been sued for copyright infringement for using text from “Tao Te Ching: A New English Version,” by Stephen Mitchell, in his own book. It’s not often you hear of a copyright claim concerning a text that was supposedly written more than 2,500 years ago. Wed, May 26th 2010 12:21pm - Mike Masnick |