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The Lamplighter
The story centers on the character Tom Grig, a jovial lamplighter whose life takes an unexpected turn involving celestial predictions and improbable romantic entanglements.
"The Lamplighter" by Charles Dickens is a humorous novella. The story centers on the character Tom Grig, a jovial lamplighter whose life takes an unexpected turn involving celestial predictions and improbable romantic entanglements.
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LONDON: CHAPMAN & HALL, LD. NEW YORK: CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS 1905
‘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.’
‘And what had he to do with ’em?’ asked the lamplighter who officiated as vice.
‘Nothing at all,’ replied the other; ‘just exactly nothing at all.’
‘Do you mean to say you don’t believe in Murphy, then?’ demanded the lamplighter who had opened the discussion.
‘I mean to say I believe in Tom Grig,’ replied the chairman. ‘Whether I believe in Murphy, or not, is a matter between me and my conscience; and whether Murphy believes in himself, or not, is a matter between him and his conscience. Gentlemen, I drink your healths.’
The lamplighter who did the company this honour, was seated in the chimney-corner of a certain tavern, which has been, time out of mind, the Lamplighters’ House of Call. He sat in the midst of a circle of lamplighters, and was the cacique, or chief of the tribe.
Contents
- 01The Lamplighter
About this edition
- Author
- Charles Dickens
- Era
- Modern (c. 1800–1945)
- Reading level
- Intermediate: some philosophy helps
- Formats
- EPUB, PDF
- Length
- 25 pages
- This edition
- Modern Philosophers