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Reprinted Pieces
Short sketches and essays by Dickens on subjects from seaside towns and begging-letter writers to lying awake at night.
Reprinted Pieces is a collection of Dickens's shorter papers. It includes "The Long Voyage", "The Begging-Letter Writer", "A Child's Dream of a Star", "Our English Watering-Place" and "Lying Awake".
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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 had a strong fascination for my mind from my earliest childhood; and I wonder it should have come to pass that I never have been round the world, never have been shipwrecked, ice-environed, tomahawked, or eaten.
Contents
- 01The Long Voyage
- 02The Begging-Letter Writer
- 03A Child’s Dream of a Star
- 04Our English Watering-Place
- 05Our French Watering-Place
- 06Bill-Sticking
- 07‘Births. Mrs. Meek, of a Son
- 08Lying Awake
- 09The Ghost of Art
- 10Out of Town
- 11Out of the Season
- 12A Poor Man’s Tale of a Patent
- 13The Noble Savage
- 14A Flight
- 15The Detective Police
- 16Three ‘Detective’ Anecdotes
- 17I.—The Pair of Gloves
- 18II.—The Artful Touch
- 19III.—The Sofa
- 20On Duty with Inspector Field
- 21Down with the Tide
- 22A Walk in a Workhouse
- 23Prince Bull. A Fairy Tale
- 24A Plated Article
- 25Our Honourable Friend
- 26Our School
- 27Our Vestry
- 28Our Bore
- 29A Monument of French Folly
About this edition
- Author
- Charles Dickens
- Era
- Modern (c. 1800–1945)
- Reading level
- Intermediate: some philosophy helps
- Formats
- EPUB, PDF
- Length
- 255 pages
- This edition
- Modern Philosophers