Selected short fiction
by
 
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.

Title
Selected short fiction

Author
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.

ISBN
9780140431032

Personal Author
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.

Uniform Title
Short stories. Selections

Publication Information
Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England ; New York, N.Y., USA : Penguin Books, 1985.

Physical Description
431 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.

Series
Penguin classics

Series Title
Penguin classics

General Note
"First published in the Penguin English Library 1976"--T.p. verso.

Contents
Charles Dickens / Introduction -- Select bibliography -- Note on the text -- Tales of the supernatural: Story of the goblins who stole a Sexton -- Baron of Grogzwig -- Confession found in a prison in the time of Charles the second -- To be read at dusk -- Mugby junction: No. 1 branch line. The signalman -- Impressionistic sketches: Election for beadle -- Seven dials -- Meditations in Monmouth-Street -- Visit to Newgate -- A Christmas tree -- A fight -- Our school -- Lying awake -- The uncommercial traveller: His general line of business -- Refreshments for travellers -- Travelling abroad -- City of London Churches -- Shy neighbourhoods -- Dullborough town -- Nurse's stories -- Arcadian London -- Calais night-mail -- Dramatic monologues: Somebody's luggage: His leaving it til called for -- His brown-paper parcel -- His wonderful end -- Mrs. Lirriper's legacy: Mrs. Lirriper relates how she went on, and went over -- Mrs. Lirriper relates how Jemmy topped up -- Doctor Marigold's prescriptions: To be talen immediately -- To be taken for life -- Mugby Junction: Main line. The boy at Mugby -- George Silverman's explanation -- Descriptive headlines, 1867-8 --

Genre
English fiction -- 19th century.

Added Author
Thomas, Deborah A., 1943-


LibraryMaterial TypeItem BarcodeShelf NumberStatus
IYTE LibraryBook0013841PR4552.T47 1985Rafta