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These short gems will entertain you as the master British storyteller weaves his spell of enchantment. The page book published by Penguin English Classics includes: Tales of the Supernatural; The Story of a Goblin who stole a sexton is a spooky tale about a grouchy gravedigger who is stolen by Goblins on a Christmas Eve long ago. Other stories in this section include "The Baron of Grozgwig" who learned through a ghostly apparation to enjoy the good things of life.
A Confession in the Time of Charles II is the first person narrative of a murderer who describes how his crime was discovered. To Be Read at Dusk is a ghost story set in Switzerland. The Signalman at Mugby Junction is a harrowing tale of a dark and stormy night at a lonely railroad junction. Impressionist Sketches-many taken from Dickens' early work "Sketches from Boz" include short articles on an election for parish beadle, Seven Dials area of London and the best of the lot: A few other short pieces are included in this section. This reviewer found most interesting the third section of the Penguin edition dealing with dramatic monolgues by fascinating characters drawn with Dicken's unmatched skill: Somebody's Luggage deals with a man finding old luggage containing a mansucript.
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Mrs Lirriper is a cockney owner of a London lodging. She and her friend raise a small boy after the child's mother dies in the room she has rented in the Lirriper hotel. This story is very sentimental but is touching without being treacly! Doctor Marigold's prescriptions is another touching tale about a dealer in cheap merchandise who adopts a young girl who is deaf and dumb.
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Mugby Junction pokes fun at the atrocious refreshment establishments available to the British train traveler. Charles Dickens is a genius of the printed word. These little known stories are worthy of being wider known. See all 4 reviews. Customers who viewed this item also viewed. Hard Times Penguin Classics. Feedback If you need help or have a question for Customer Service, contact us. Would you like to report poor quality or formatting in this book?
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Penguin Classics; Reprint edition July 30, Language: Related Video Shorts 0 Upload your video. Try the Kindle edition and experience these great reading features: Share your thoughts with other customers. Write a customer review. There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later. The short fiction is, for the most part, more derivative than Dickens long work, in that one can often see some kind of folk tale behind much of what I have read so far.
That said, the short work is interesting because it shows a more intimate side of Dickens, I think, as well as probably some of the experimentation that went into writing his longer, more famous work. I can't say the book is a spell-binder for me, but I enjoy it now and then. One person found this helpful.
Nice selection of shorts not easily found elsewhere. Brief pieces culled from Dickens' novels, periodicals and collections. Charles Dickens is the greatest Victorian novelist. However, many readers do not turn to his shorter fiction to while away an hour or so of reading pleasure! These short gems will entertain you as the master British storyteller weaves his spell of enchantment.
The page book published by Penguin English Classics includes: Tales of the Supernatural; The Story of a Goblin who stole a sexton is a spooky tale about a grouchy gravedigger who is stolen by Goblins on a Christmas Eve long ago. Other stories in this section include "The Baron of Grozgwig" who learned through a ghostly apparation to enjoy the good things of life. A Confession in the Time of Charles II is the first person narrative of a murderer who describes how his crime was discovered. To Be Read at Dusk is a ghost story set in Switzerland.
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The Signalman at Mugby Junction is a harrowing tale of a dark and stormy night at a lonely railroad junction. Impressionist Sketches-many taken from Dickens' early work "Sketches from Boz" include short articles on an election for parish beadle, Seven Dials area of London and the best of the lot: A few other short pieces are included in this section.
This reviewer found most interesting the third section of the Penguin edition dealing with dramatic monolgues by fascinating characters drawn with Dicken's unmatched skill: Somebody's Luggage deals with a man finding old luggage containing a mansucript. Mrs Lirriper is a cockney owner of a London lodging.