Literature
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A Walk in a Workhouse by Charles Dickens
On a certain Sunday, I formed one of the congregation assembled in the chapel of a large metropolitan Workhouse. With…
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A Poor Man’s Tale of a Patent by Charles Dickens
I am not used to writing for print. What working-man, that never labours less (some Mondays, and Christmas Time and…
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A Monument of French Folly by Charles Dickens
IT was profoundly observed by a witty member of the Court of Common Council, in Council assembled in the City…
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A Message from the Sea by Charles Dickens
CHAPTER I — THE VILLAGE “And a mighty sing’lar and pretty place it is, as ever I saw in all…
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A Good-Humoured Christmas Chapter by Charles Dickens
A Good-Humoured Christmas Chapter, Containing an Account of a Wedding, and Some Other Sports Beside: “Which although in their way,…
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A Flight by Charles Dickens
WHEN Don Diego de – I forget his name – the inventor of the last new Flying Machines, price so…
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A Christmas Tree by Charles Dickens
Dickens helped to invigorate 19th century Christmas celebrations with several short stories and his infamous novella A Christmas Carol (1843).…
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A Child’s Dream of a Star by Charles Dickens
A Child’s Dream of a StarBenh Lieu Song, Savault Chapel under the Milky Way, 2015THERE was once a child, and…
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The Haunted Man and the Ghost’s Bargain by Charles Dickens
The Haunted Man and the Ghost’s Bargain (1844), with the subtitle, A Fancy for Christmas-Time, is the fifth and final…
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The Cricket on the Hearth by Charles Dickens
The Cricket on the Hearth, A Fairy Tale of Home (1844) is the third of Dickens’ five Christmas Books. Chirp the First The kettle…
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