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"The Poor Traveler"

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By: Charles Dickens [Dickens' introduction to this story describes his going to Rochester on Christmas Eve and seeing there a quaint old charity, which provided for the entertainment of "six poor travelers who not being rogues o...

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"The Christmas Goblins"

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By: Charles Dickens In an old abbey town, a long, long while ago there officiated as sexton and gravedigger in the churchyard one Gabriel Grubb. He was an ill conditioned cross-grained, surly fellow, who consorted with nobody but himself a...

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"The Trial For Murder"

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By: Charles Dickens I have always noticed a prevalent want of courage, even among persons of superior intelligence and culture, as to imparting their own psychological experiences when those have been of a strange sort. Almost all men are...

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"The Signal-Man"

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By: Charles Dickens "Halloa! Below there!" When he heard a voice thus calling to him, he was standing at the door of his box, with a flag in his hand, furled round its short pole. One would have thought, considering the nature of the grou...

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"Tom Tiddler’s Ground"

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By: Charles Dickens CHAPTER I--PICKING UP SOOT AND CINDERS "And why Tom Tiddler's ground?" said the Traveller. "Because he scatters halfpence to Tramps and such-like," returned the Landlord, "and of course they pick 'em up. And this bein...

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"To Be Read At Dusk"

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By: Charles Dickens One, two, three, four, five. There were five of them. Five couriers, sitting on a bench outside the convent on the summit of the Great St. Bernard in Switzerland, looking at the remote heights, stained by the setting s...

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"Sunday Under Three Heads"

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By: Charles Dickens DEDICATION To The Right Reverend THE BISHOP OF LONDON MY LORD, You were among the first, some years ago, to expatiate on the vicious addiction of the lower classes of society to Sunday excursions; and were thus instr...

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"Somebody’s Luggage"

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By: Charles Dickens 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 Waiters, and likewise an only...

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"Sketches of Young Gentlemen"

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By: Charles Dickens 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, J...

0 Likes | 0 comment | 895 views | Short Stories | June 25, 2017

"Sketches of Young Couples"

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By: Charles Dickens 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, Vic...

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"The Seven Poor Travellers"

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By: Charles Dickens THE SEVEN POOR TRAVELLERS--IN THREE CHAPTERS CHAPTER I--IN THE OLD CITY OF ROCHESTER Strictly speaking, there were only six Poor Travellers; but, being a Traveller myself, though an idle one, and being withal as poor...

1 Like | 0 comment | 943 views | Short Stories | June 25, 2017

"The Perils of Certain English Prisoners"

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By: Charles Dickens (1857) Written in collaboration with Wilkie Collins, this novella is a study of British Imperialism, set in Asia and South America. THE PERILS OF CERTAIN ENGLISH PRISONERS CHAPTER I--THE ISLAND OF SILVER-STORE...

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"Mugby Junction"

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By: Charles Dickens CHAPTER I--BARBOX BROTHERS I. "Guard! What place is this?" "Mugby Junction, sir." "A windy place!" "Yes, it mostly is, sir." "And looks comfortless indeed!" "Yes, it generally does, sir." "Is it a rainy night st...

0 Likes | 0 comment | 883 views | Short Stories | June 25, 2017

"Mrs. Lirriper’s Lodgings"

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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 lone woman with a living to get is a thing inconceivable to me, my dear; excuse the familiarity...

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"Mrs. Lirriper’s Legacy"

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By: Charles Dickens CHAPTER I--MRS. LIRRIPER RELATES HOW SHE WENT ON, AND WENT OVER Ah! It's pleasant to drop into my own easy-chair my dear though a little palpitating what with trotting up-stairs and what with trotting down, and why kit...

0 Likes | 0 comment | 888 views | Short Stories | June 24, 2017

"The Haunted House"

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By: Charles Dickens IN TWO CHAPTERS THE MORTALS IN THE HOUSE Under none of the accredited ghostly circumstances, and environed by none of the conventional ghostly surroundings, did I first make acquaintance with the house which is the su...

0 Likes | 0 comment | 1059 views | Short Stories | June 23, 2017

"The Lamplighter"

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By: Charles Dickens A Farce in One Act `If you talk of Murphy and Francis Moore, gentlemen,' said the lamplighter who was in the chair, 'I mean to say that neither of 'em ever had any more to do with the stars than Tom Grig had.'...

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"The Holly Tree"

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By: Charles Dickens THE HOLLY-TREE--THREE BRANCHES FIRST BRANCH--MYSELF I have kept one secret in the course of my life. I am a bashful man. Nobody would suppose it, nobody ever does suppose it, nobody ever did suppose it, but I am natur...

0 Likes | 0 comment | 939 views | Short Stories | June 23, 2017

"The Boots at the Holly Tree Inn"

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By: Charles Dickens Where had he been in his time? he repeated, when I asked him the question, Lord, he had been everywhere! And what had he been? Bless you, he had been everything you could mention, a'most! Seen a good deal? Why, of cour...

0 Likes | 0 comment | 870 views | Short Stories | June 23, 2017

"Going into Society"

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By: Charles Dickens At one period of its reverses, the House fell into the occupation of a Showman. He was found registered as its occupier, on the parish books of the time when he rented the House, and there was therefore no need of any c...

0 Likes | 0 comment | 880 views | Short Stories | June 23, 2017

"George Silverman’s Explanation"

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By: Charles Dickens FIRST CHAPTER IT happened in this wise - But, sitting with my pen in my hand looking at those words again, without descrying any hint in them of the words that should follow, it comes into my mind that they have an ab...

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"Doctor Marigold"

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By: Charles Dickens I am a Cheap Jack, and my own father's name was Willum Marigold. It was in his lifetime supposed by some that his name was William, but my own father always consistently said, No, it was Willum. On which point I content...

0 Likes | 0 comment | 1016 views | Short Stories | June 23, 2017

"The Wreck of the Golden Mary"

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By: Charles Dickens THE WRECK I was apprenticed to the Sea when I was twelve years old, and I have encountered a great deal of rough weather, both literal and metaphorical. It has always been my opinion since I first possessed such...

0 Likes | 0 comment | 892 views | Short Stories | June 23, 2017

"What Christmas is as we Grow Older"

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By: Charles Dickens Time was, with most of us, when Christmas Day encircling all our limited world like a magic ring, left nothing out for us to miss or seek; bound together all our home enjoyments, affections, and hopes; grouped everythin...

0 Likes | 0 comment | 1012 views | Short Stories | June 23, 2017

"The Schoolboy’s Story"

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By: Charles Dickens Being rather young at present--I am getting on in years, but still I am rather young--I have no particular adventures of my own to fall back upon. It wouldn't much interest anybody here, I suppose, to know what a screw...

0 Likes | 0 comment | 983 views | Short Stories | June 23, 2017

"The Poor Relation’s Story"

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By: Charles Dickens He was very reluctant to take precedence of so many respected members of the family, by beginning the round of stories they were to relate as they sat in a goodly circle by the Christmas fire; and he modestly suggested...

0 Likes | 0 comment | 1042 views | Short Stories | June 23, 2017

"Nobody’s Story"

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By: Charles Dickens He lived on the bank of a mighty river, broad and deep, which was always silently rolling on to a vast undiscovered ocean. It had rolled on, ever since the world began. It had changed its course sometimes, and turned in...

0 Likes | 0 comment | 1153 views | Short Stories | June 23, 2017

"A Christmas Tree"

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By: Charles Dickens I have been looking on, this evening, at a merry company of children assembled round that pretty German toy, a Christmas Tree. The tree was planted in the middle of a great round table, and towered high above their head...

0 Likes | 0 comment | 968 views | Short Stories | June 23, 2017

"The Child’s Story"

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By: Charles Dickens Once upon a time, a good many years ago, there was a traveller, and he set out upon a journey. It was a magic journey, and was to seem very long when he began it, and very short when he got half way through. He travell...

1 Like | 0 comment | 877 views | Short Stories | June 23, 2017

"The Four Fists"

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By: Fitzgerald, Francis Scott At the present time no one I know has the slightest desire to hit Samuel Meredith; possibly this is because a man over fifty is liable to be rather severely cracked at the impact of a hostile fist, but, for my...

0 Likes | 0 comment | 931 views | Short Stories | June 22, 2017

"Dalyrimple Goes Wrong"

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By: Fitzgerald, Francis Scott In the millennium an educational genius will write a book to be given to every young man on the date of his disillusion. This work will have the flavor of Montaigne's essays and Samuel Butler's note-books--and...

0 Likes | 0 comment | 954 views | Short Stories | June 22, 2017

"Benediction"

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By: Fitzgerald, Francis Scott The Baltimore Station was hot and crowded, so Lois was forced to stand by the telegraph desk for interminable, sticky seconds while a clerk with big front teeth counted and recounted a large lady's day message...

0 Likes | 0 comment | 1074 views | Short Stories | June 22, 2017

"Bernice Bobs Her Hair"

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By: Fitzgerald, Francis Scott After dark on Saturday night one could stand on the first tee of the golf-course and see the country-club windows as a yellow expanse over a very black and wavy ocean. The waves of this ocean, so to speak, wer...

1 Like | 0 comment | 946 views | Short Stories | June 22, 2017

"The Cut-Glass Bowl"

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By: Fitzgerald, Francis Scott There was a rough stone age and a smooth stone age and a bronze age, and many years afterward a cut-glass age. In the cut-glass age, when young ladies had persuaded young men with long, curly mustaches to marr...

0 Likes | 0 comment | 1068 views | Short Stories | June 22, 2017

"Head and Shoulders"

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By: Fitzgerald, Francis Scott In 1915 Horace Tarbox was thirteen years old. In that year he took the examinations for entrance to Princeton University and received the Grade A--excellent--in Caesar, Cicero, Vergil, Xenophon, Homer, Algebra...

0 Likes | 0 comment | 1049 views | Short Stories | June 22, 2017

"The Ice Palace"

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By: Fitzgerald, Francis Scott The sunlight dripped over the house like golden paint over an art jar, and the freckling shadows here and there only intensified the rigor of the bath of light. The Butterworth and Larkin houses flanking were...

0 Likes | 0 comment | 990 views | Short Stories | June 22, 2017

"The Offshore Pirate"

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By: Fitzgerald, Francis Scott This unlikely story begins on a sea that was a blue dream, as colorful as blue-silk stockings, and beneath a sky as blue as the irises of children's eyes. From the western half of the sky the sun was shying li...

0 Likes | 0 comment | 1038 views | Short Stories | June 22, 2017

"Tales of the Jazz Age: Jemina, the Mountain Girl"

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By: Fitzgerald, Francis Scott This don't pretend to be "Literature." This is just a tale for red-blooded folks who want a _story_ and not just a lot of "psychological" stuff or "analysis." Boy, you'll love it! Read it here, see it in the m...

1 Like | 0 comment | 893 views | Short Stories | June 22, 2017

"Tales of the Jazz Age: Mr. Icky"

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By: Fitzgerald, Francis Scott THE QUINTESSENCE OF QUAINTNESS IN ONE ACT The Scene is the Exterior of a Cottage in West Issacshire on a desperately Arcadian afternoon in August. MR. ICKY, quaintly dressed in the costume of an Elizabethan p...

0 Likes | 0 comment | 937 views | Short Stories | June 22, 2017

"Tales of the Jazz Age: The Lees of Happiness"

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By: Fitzgerald, Francis Scott If you should look through the files of old magazines for the first years of the present century you would find, sandwiched in between the stories of Richard Harding Davis and Frank Norris and others long sinc...

0 Likes | 0 comment | 925 views | Short Stories | June 22, 2017