This etext was prepared from the 1912 Gresham Publishing Company edition by David Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk Contributions to All The Year Round by Charles Dickens Contents: Announcement in “Household Words” The Poor Man and his Beer Five New Points of Criminal Law Leigh Hunt: A Remonstrance The Tattlesnivel Bleater The Young Man from the Country
The Haunted Man and the Ghost’s Bargain by Charles Dickens
Transcribed from the 1907 J. M. Dent and Co. edition by David Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk THE HAUNTED MAN AND THE GHOST’S BARGAIN CHAPTER I–The Gift Bestowed Everybody said so. Far be it from me to assert that what everybody says must be true. Everybody is, often, as likely to be wrong as right. In the
No Thoroughfare by Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins
This etext was prepared from the 1894 Chapman and Hall “Christmas Stories” edition by David Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk NO THOROUGHFARE THE OVERTURE Day of the month and year, November the thirtieth, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-five. London Time by the great clock of Saint Paul’s, ten at night. All the lesser London churches strain
Oliver Twist by Charles DickensThe Parish Boy’s Progress
Among other public buildings in a certain town, which for many reasons it will be prudent to refrain from mentioning, and to which I will assign no fictitious name,
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
My father’s family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip. So, I called myself Pip, and came to be called Pip.
Pictures from Italy by Charles Dickens
Transcribed from the 1913 Chapman & Hall, Ltd. edition by David Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk PICTURES FROM ITALY THE READER’S PASSPORT If the readers of this volume will be so kind as to take their credentials for the different places which are the subject of its author’s reminiscences, from the Author himself, perhaps they may visit
Reprinted Pieces by Charles Dickens
Reprinted Pieces by Charles Dickens Scanned and proofed by David Price ccx074@coventry.ac.uk Reprinted Pieces THE LONG VOYAGE WHEN the wind is blowing and the sleet or rain is driving against the dark windows, I love to sit by the fire, thinking of what I have read in books of voyage and travel. Such books have
Sketches by Boz by Charles DickensIllustrative of Every-day Life and Every-day People
How much is conveyed in those two short words–‘The Parish!’ And with how many tales of distress and misery, of broken fortune and ruined hopes, too often of unrelieved wretchedness and successful knavery, are they associated!
Sketches of Young Couples by Charles Dickens
Transcribed from the 1903 edition by David Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk SKETCHES OF YOUNG COUPLES AN URGENT REMONSTRANCE, &c TO THE GENTLEMEN OF ENGLAND, (BEING BACHELORS OR WIDOWERS,) THE REMONSTRANCE OF THEIR FAITHFUL FELLOW-SUBJECT, SHEWETH,- THAT Her Most Gracious Majesty, Victoria, by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Queen,
Sketches of Young Gentlemen by Charles Dickens
Transcribed from the 1903 edition by David Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk SKETCHES OF YOUNG GENTLEMEN TO THE YOUNG LADIES OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND; ALSO THE YOUNG LADIES OF THE PRINCIPALITY OF WALES, AND LIKEWISE THE YOUNG LADIES RESIDENT IN THE ISLES OF GUERNSEY, JERSEY, ALDERNEY, AND SARK, THE HUMBLE DEDICATION OF
Some Christmas Stories by Charles Dickens
This etext was prepared from the 1911 Chapman and Hall Christmas Stories (Volume 1) edition by David Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk Some Short Christmas Stories by Charles Dickens Contents: A Christmas Tree What Christmas is as we Grow Older The Poor Relation’s Story The Child’s Story The Schoolboy’s Story Nobody’s Story A CHRISTMAS TREE I have
Somebody’s Luggage by Charles Dickens
This etext was prepared from the 1894 Chapman and Hall “Christmas Stories” edition by David Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk SOMEBODY’S LUGGAGE CHAPTER I–HIS LEAVING IT TILL CALLED FOR The writer of these humble lines being a Waiter, and having come of a family of Waiters, and owning at the present time five brothers who are all