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Oliver Twist. Volume 2 of 3Charles Dickens Oliver Twist, Vol. 2 (of 3) CHAPTER XX. WHEREIN OLIVER IS DELIVERED OVER TO MR. WILLIAM SIKES When Oliver awoke in the morning he was a good deal surprised to find that a new pair of shoes with strong thick soles had been placed at his bedside, and that ...

Oliver Twist. Volume 3 of 3CHAPTER XXXVII. CONTAINING AN ACCOUNT OF WHAT PASSED BETWEEN MR. AND MRS. BUMBLE AND MONKS, AT THEIR NOCTURNAL INTERVIEWCHAPTER XXXVIII. INTRODUCES SOME RESPECTABLE CHARACTERS WITH WHOM THE READER IS ALREADY ACQUAINTED, AND SHOWS HOW MONKS AND THE JEW LAID THEIR WORTHY ...

Oliver Twist. Volume 1 of 3CHAPTER I. TREATS OF THE PLACE WHERE OLIVER TWIST WAS BORN, AND OF THE CIRCUMSTANCES ATTENDING HIS BIRTHCHAPTER II. TREATS OF OLIVER TWIST’S GROWTH, EDUCATION, AND BOARDCHAPTER III. RELATES HOW OLIVER TWIST WAS VERY NEAR GETTING A PLACE, WHICH WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN A SINE...

The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club. Volume 1 of 2Charles Dickens The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, v. 1(of 2) CHAPTER I THE PICKWICKIANS The first ray of light which illumines the gloom, and converts into a dazzling brilliancy that obscurity in which the earlier history of the p...

The Battle of Life. A Love StoryDickens Charles The Battle of Life. A Love Story PART THE FIRST Once upon a time, it matters little when, and in stalwart England, it matters little where, a fierce battle was fought. It was fought upon a long summer day when the waving grass was green. Many a wild...

Tales from DickensDickens Charles, Rives Hallie Erminie Tales from Dickens CHARLES DICKENSCharles John Huffham Dickens, the master story-teller, was born in Landport, England, February 7, 1812. His father was a clerk in one of the offices of the Navy, and he was one of eight children.When he was ...

The Personal History of David CopperfieldCharles Dickens The Personal History of David Copperfield PREFACE I do not find it easy to get sufficiently far away from this Book, in the first sensations of having finished it, to refer to it with the composure which this formal heading would seem to re...

The Mysterious Stranger: A RomanceMark Twain The Mysterious Stranger: A Romance CHAPTER I IT was in 1590 – winter. Austria was far away from the world, and asleep; it was still the Middle Ages in Austria, and promised to remain so forever. Some even set it away back centuries upon centuries and s...

Miscellaneous Aphorisms; The Soul of Man Wilde Oscar Miscellaneous Aphorisms; The Soul of Man The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death. Women are made to be loved, not to be understood. It is absurd to have a hard and fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. M...

«…C’était au mois de mai 1838. Je me trouvais, avec beaucoup d’autres passagers, sur le bateau le Nicolas I-er, qui faisait le trajet entre Saint-Pétersbourg et Lübeck. Comme, dans ce temps-là, les chemins de fer étaient encore peu florissants, tous les voyageurs prenaient la route de mer. Par ce...