Charles Dickens 英文图书 / Literature & Fiction(文学与虚构类) · 5079字更新时间:2019-02-26 16:57:28开会员,本书免费读 > Theghoststory"TheSignal-Man"iswrittenin1866,whichconcernsaspectreseenbesideatunnelentrance.Thesignal-manofthetitletellsthenarratorofaghostthathasbeenhauntinghim.Eachspectral...
The ghost story The Signal-Man is written in 1866, which concerns a spectre seen beside a tunnel entrance. The signal-man of the title tells the narrator of a ghost that has been haunting him. Each spectral appearance precedes, and is a harbinger of, a tragic event on the railway on wh...
I have tried to write a ghost story that won’t make you unhappy with yourselves, with each other, with seasons, or with me. I hope it haunts your houses pleasantly. Charles Dickens One Christmas Eve, old Scrooge and Bob were working busily in his office
Charles Dickens was born on 7 February 1812 at 1 Mile End Terrace (now 393 Commercial Road),LandportinPortsea Island(Portsmouth),Hampshire, the second of eight children ofElizabeth Dickens(née Barrow; 1789–1863) andJohn Dickens(1785–1851). His father was a clerk in the Navy Pay Office a...
This was the first railway accident in the United Kingdom in which more than twenty passengers were killed and as such it made headline news. It occurred in a locality that Dickens knew well, and he could hardly have escaped reading about it. It is known that there is a deep cutting ...
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Charles Dickens is said to have been a patron of this establishment and it’s said that Bentley’s story inspired Dickens to create the character of Miss Havisham for this book,Great Expectations. In keeping with its name, the cellar bar was for years cluttered with cobwebs and all sorts of...
Bright cold weather it was, cart-chimneys smoking, carts pitched private on a piece of waste ground over at Wandsworth, where you may see ’em from the Sou’western Railway when not upon the road. (Look out of the right-hand window going down.) “Marigold,” says the gentleman, ...
Staplehurst Railway Accident In May, 1864, Dickens began publication of what would be his last completed novel. Published in monthly installments,Our Mutual Friendtouches the familiar theme of the evils and corruption that the love of money brings. Poor health causing perhaps a stutter in his usua...
Reprinted Pieces by Charles Dickens Scanned and proofed by David Price ccx074@coventry.ac.uk Reprinted Pieces THE LONG VOYAGE 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