Charles Dickens’s ‘A Christmas Carol’ with Neil Gaiman and Molly Oldfield

An afternoon of Victorian entertainment with Neil Gaiman and Molly Oldfield.

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Molly Oldfield

Molly Oldfield, consummate researcher and author of The Secret Museum, shares her love of unique items and interesting objects found at museums and libraries worldwide, most notably The New York Public Library’s collection of Dickens material in the Berg Collection of English and American Literature.

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Neil Gaiman Kimberly Butler

Joining her will be acclaimed author Neil Gaiman, who will present a memorable reading of Dickens’ A Christmas Carol.

Gaiman will read the classic tale as the great author intended, following edits and prompts Dickens wrote in his own hand for his unique readings 150 years ago.

About the authors

Neil Gaiman has written many books and won many awards for them. He won the Audie Award for Book of the Year for his reading of The Graveyard Book. He used to read A Christmas Carol to his children, but only at Christmas.

Molly Oldfield is a writer and researcher for the landmark BBC 1 program QI (Quite Interesting), presented by Stephen Fry, and broadcast in the U.S. by National Geographic. She writes a weekly column for The Telegraph in the U.K. and also researches for BBC’s Radio 4 program, The Museum of Curiosity. She spent two years touring the world in search of the most extraordinary inventions, legacies and artifacts hidden from the public and the best of what she found – 60 unseen artifacts whose stories touch all five continents – are in The Secret Museum (Firefly Books, 2013).











When: Sun., Dec. 15, 2013 at 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Where: New York Public Library—Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
476 Fifth Ave.
917-275-6975
Price: Free, advance registration suggested.
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An afternoon of Victorian entertainment with Neil Gaiman and Molly Oldfield.

molly-oldfield

Molly Oldfield

Molly Oldfield, consummate researcher and author of The Secret Museum, shares her love of unique items and interesting objects found at museums and libraries worldwide, most notably The New York Public Library’s collection of Dickens material in the Berg Collection of English and American Literature.

neil-gaiman

Neil Gaiman Kimberly Butler

Joining her will be acclaimed author Neil Gaiman, who will present a memorable reading of Dickens’ A Christmas Carol.

Gaiman will read the classic tale as the great author intended, following edits and prompts Dickens wrote in his own hand for his unique readings 150 years ago.

About the authors

Neil Gaiman has written many books and won many awards for them. He won the Audie Award for Book of the Year for his reading of The Graveyard Book. He used to read A Christmas Carol to his children, but only at Christmas.

Molly Oldfield is a writer and researcher for the landmark BBC 1 program QI (Quite Interesting), presented by Stephen Fry, and broadcast in the U.S. by National Geographic. She writes a weekly column for The Telegraph in the U.K. and also researches for BBC’s Radio 4 program, The Museum of Curiosity. She spent two years touring the world in search of the most extraordinary inventions, legacies and artifacts hidden from the public and the best of what she found – 60 unseen artifacts whose stories touch all five continents – are in The Secret Museum (Firefly Books, 2013).

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