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Author Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.

Title Best stories / Edited, and with an introd., by Morton Dauwen Zabel.

Publication Info. Garden City, N.Y. : Hanover House [1959]

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Location Call No. Status
 Burlington Public Library - Adult Department  FIC DIC    Check Shelf
 East Hartford, Raymond Library - Adult Department  F DICKENS CHARLES    DUE 05-28-24
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  F DICKENS, C.    Check Shelf
Edition [First edition].
Description 669 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Contents Prelude: The opening scene: -- Streets-Morning -- Streets-Night -- Shops and their tenants -- Scotland Yard -- London recreations -- River -- Early coaches -- Omnibuses -- Gin-shops -- Criminal courts -- Christmas dinner -- Christmas and its ghosts: Christmas Carol -- Chimes -- Cricket on the hearth -- Battle of life -- Haunted man and the ghost's bargain -- Life and its battle: Holly-tree -- Somebody's luggage -- Mrs. Lirriper's lodgings -- Doctor Marigold -- Mugby Junction -- Tales for the dusk: Hunted down -- George Silverman's explanation -- Detective police -- Three "detective" anecdotes: Pair of gloves -- Artful touch -- Sofa -- To be read at dusk -- Child's dream of a star.
Subject England -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction.
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