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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 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...

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...

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 ...

Old Scrooge: A Christmas Carol in Five Staves.Charles A. Scott «Old Scrooge»: A Christmas Carol in Five Staves. / Dramatized from Charles Dickens' Celebrated Christmas Story CHARACTERS Ebenezer Scrooge, a miserly brokerFrederick Merry, a nephew to ScroogeBob Cratchit, clerk to ScroogeGhost of Jac...

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 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...

Wonderful Stories for ChildrenHans Christian Andersen Wonderful Stories for Children OLÉ LUCKOIÈ, (SHUT-EYE.) There is nobody in all this world who knows so many tales as Olé Luckoiè! He can tell tales! In an evening, when a child sits so nicely at the table, or on its little stool, Olé Luckoiè c...

Salomé: A Tragedy in One ActOscar Wilde Salomé: A Tragedy in One Act SALOMÉ SCENE. —A great terrace in the Palace of Herod, set above the banqueting-hall. Some soldiers are leaning over the balcony. To the right there is a gigantic staircase, to the left, at the back, an old cistern surrounded by...