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Excerpt: Oliver Twist or the Parish Boy?s Progress by Charles Dickens.

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Excerpt: Some Christmas Stories by Charles Dickens.

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Excerpt: A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens.

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Excerpt: Mudfog and Other Sketches by Charles Dickens.

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Excerpt: Sunday Under Three Heads by Charles Dickens.

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...Excerpt: The school at which young Charley Hexam had first learned from a book--the streets being, for pupils of his degree, the great Preparatory Establishment in which very much that is never unlearned is learned without and before ...

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Excerpt: The Pickwick Papers, Volume Two by Charles Dickens.

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...oon as possible, I beg it to be noticed that I confine this observation neither to young people nor to little people, but extend it to all conditions of people: little and big, young and old: yet growing up, or already growing down again ? there are not, I say, many people who would care to sleep in a church. I don?t mean at sermon- time in warm weather (when the thing has...

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Excerpt: The Wreck of the Golden Mary by Charles Dickens.

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...Excerpt: 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 naturally a bashful man. This is the secret which I have never breathed until now....

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Excerpt: The Uncommercial Traveler by Charles Dickens.

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...sed by some that his name was William, but my own father always consistently said, No, it was Willum. On which point I content myself with looking at the argument this way: If a man is not allowed to know his own name in a free country, how much is he allowed to know in a land of slavery? As to looking at the argument through the medium of the Register, Willum Marigold com...

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Excerpt: Barnaby Rudge, A Tale of the Riots of ?Eighty by Charles Dickens.

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