Things that time forgot.

[jean]

Personification's a sort of metaphor.

It enriches by sounding a lot better than Things which some of us may have forgotten, things which have fallen out of use but which some of us remember.

[teamsaint]

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073260/

Set on the Isle of Wight, IIRC.

[vinteuil]

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073260/


Set on the Isle of Wight, IIRC.

... ah! Thanks for reminding me

You are surely ["Don't call me Shirley!"] not in any way suggesting that the Isle of Wight might be The Land That Time Forgot??

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Land_That_Time_Forgot_(novel)

[doversoul1]

Have you never heard of metaphor?

… or idiom?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiom

[gurnemanz]

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073260/


Set on the Isle of Wight, IIRC.

I had almost forgotten about the delightful Susan Penhaligon who turns out to be almost exact the same age as me. The film seems to feature her stuck in a bog with a dodgy-looking caveman.

[teamsaint]

... ah! Thanks for reminding me

You are surely ["Don't call me Shirley!"] not in any way suggesting that the Isle of Wight might be The Land That Time Forgot??

On no,certainly not.
As if.....

[Nick Armstrong]

OMG! Action Transfers!!!

http://action-transfers.com/html/at_red/1914.shtml

I had the 1914-18, Pirates and Medieval Knights .... spent HOURS with these !!

[Roslynmuse]

[COLOR="#0000FF"]OMG! Action Transfers!!!

http://action-transfers.com/html/at_red/1914.shtml

I had the 1914-18, Pirates and Medieval Knights .... spent HOURS with these !!

Haven't thought about these for 40 years!

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

I was very surprised to see that Classics Illustrated comics are still available.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Copperfield-Classics-Illustrated-Charles-Dickens/dp/1906814678/ref=sr_1_14?ie=UTF8&qid=1456130436&sr=8-14&keywords=classics+illustrated+comics

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Haven't thought about these for 40 years!

(except that I should add a "more than" in there!)

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I was very surprised to see that Classics Illustrated comics are still available.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Copperfield-...strated+comics

Now that cover is misleading - the image of Tower Bridge make it clear that this is a London scene, but when child David knew Micawber, he was working in the bottle blacking factory, and didn't have any books. (When he did have books, he was a scholar in Canterbury - and was a young man when he became reacquainted with Micawber, who worked for Mr Wickfield, also in Canterbury.)

It's like Dickensian all over again!

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Now that cover is misleading - the image of Tower Bridge make it clear that this is a London scene, but when child David knew Micawber, he was working in the bottle blacking factory, and didn't have any books. (When he did have books, he was a scholar in Canterbury - and was a young man when he became reacquainted with Micawber, who worked for Mr Wickfield, also in Canterbury.)

It's like Dickensian all over again!

Very good. I'm impressed.

But we should perhaps allow a little artistic licence with a composite cover illustration?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

But we should perhaps allow a little artistic licence with a composite cover illustration?

That's a "double-O" artistic licence!

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

And, just like the Action Transfers, I used to love the comic-strip versions of Victorian novels: along with the Sunday Classic serials, they made me keen to get to grips with the "proper" books, which I started to read (and it was precisely David Copperfield) when I was about ten. I hope these versions sell well to children - not just to nostalgic adults.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

I had David Copperfield, Ben Hur, A Tale of Two Cities, The Pied Piper, Treasure Island & Around the World in 80 Days.

They did indeed encourage me to read the originals.


However, the series I most admired were the Shakespeare plays in comic form, but retaining the bard's own texts.