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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870
Other Authors: Zabel, Morton Dauwen, 1901-1964
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Garden City, N.Y. : Hanover House, [1959]
Edition:[1st ed.].
Subjects:
England > Social life and customs > 19th century > Fiction.
Table of Contents:
  • Prelude: 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
  • Crickett 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 duck: 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.