Literature
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Our Honourable Friend by Charles Dickens
We are delighted to find that he has got in! Our honourable friend is triumphantly returned to serve in the…
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Our French Watering-Place by Charles Dickens
Having earned, by many years of fidelity, the right to be sometimes inconstant to our English watering-place, we have dallied…
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Our English Watering-Place by Charles Dickens
In the Autumn-time of the year, when the great metropolis is so much hotter, so much noisier, so much more…
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Our Bore by Charles Dickens
IT is unnecessary to say that we keep a bore. Everybody does. But, the bore whom we have the pleasure…
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On Duty with Inspector Field by Charles Dickens
HOW goes the night? Saint Giles’s clock is striking nine. The weather is dull and wet, and the long lines…
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Nobody’s Story by Charles Dickens
“The story of Nobody is the story of the rank and file of the earth. They bear their share of…
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Mugby Junction by Charles Dickens
Chapter I–Barbox Brothers “Guard! What place is this?” “Mugby Junction, sir.” “A windy place!” “Yes, it mostly is, sir.” “And…
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Mrs. Lirriper’s Lodgings by Charles Dickens
CHAPTER I–HOW MRS. LIRRIPER CARRIED ON THE BUSINESS Whoever would begin to be worried with letting Lodgings that wasn’t a…
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Mrs. Lirriper’s Legacy by Charles Dickens
CHAPTER I — MRS. LIRRIPER RELATES HOW SHE WENT ON, AND WENT OVER Ah! It’s pleasant to drop into my…
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Mr. Robert Bolton: The ‘Gentleman Connected with the Press’ by Charles Dickens
In the parlour of the Green Dragon, a public-house in the immediate neighbourhood of Westminster Bridge, everybody talks politics, every…
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