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Is appealed to, at the fish stage of the banquet, by Veneering, on the disputed question whether his cousin Lord Snigsworth is in or out ...

PREFACE TO THE CHARLES DICKENS EDITION 1867Once upon a time it was held to be a coarse and shocking circumstance that some of the charact...

It was buttoned closely up to his chin, at the imminent hazard of splitting the back; and an old stock,5without a vestige of shirt collar...

He’s quite a Dombey!’ ‘Well, well!’ returned her brother—for Mr Dombey was her brother—‘I think he is like the family. Don’t agitate your...

It is also a fact, that Scrooge had seen it night and morning during his whole residence in that place; also that Scrooge had as little o...

She leaps into a discussion of Shakespeare at the opera by recalling a trip she made to Stratford in a post-chaise:‘Was it a post-chaise ...

Image created and edited in Canva by/ Imagen creada y editada en Canva por @freidimar18 Sometimes, the shortest stories leave the deepe...

Of all the king’s knights ‘tis the flower,Always gay!’Which accompanied them so far down the few steep stairs, that the prison-keeper had...

After putting forth his right leg now and then, as a feeler, the victim who dropped the money ventures to make one or two distinct dives ...

CHAPTER 3A LoopholeMRGRADGRINDwalked homeward from the school, in a state of considerable satisfaction. It was his school, and he intende...

And still, at last, as at first, the Britons rose against them, in their old brave manner; for, a very little while before, they had turn...

Or now, I learn with bitter tears how poor Jane Shore, dressed all in white, and with her brown hair hanging down, went starving through ...

Jasper opens a door at the upper end of the room, and discloses a small inner room pleasantly lighted and prepared, wherein a comely dame...

As an officer in a black gown was making his way with it across to me, the figure of the second man who had gone down Piccadilly impetuou...

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image Hehehe, wonder shall never end. So, can John change? It is incredible. Tolu said. Faith cuts in. Yeah, John was awesome when he im...

(Cover designed by me in canva editor) Portada diseñada por mi en el editor de Canva As you may have gathered from my reviews, I'm a b...

As for Kit himself (whose laugh had been all the time one of that sort which very little would change into a cry) he carried a large slic...

Finding that his look was not returned, or indeed observed by the person to whom it was addressed, John gradually concentrated the whole ...

Indeed, while John Ruskin argued that the number of deaths in Bleak House(nine, by his miscount; there are more) answered “a craving of t...

You mustn't do it!'This argument had some share in quieting my mother, though her increasing indisposition had a larger one. There was an...

First ConversationDon't be alarmed, my reader, if I seem to take a somewhat long route. I am anxious to make very clear to you certain co...

Hello, book lovers. This is the first time I've written a summary of my reading experiences. I aimed to read a novella or long short st...

Friends of Hive Book Club who have faithfully accompanied me this 2025, I close this year of reading with a book that is not new, but ...

I recently read a book that is the newest one I have read so far, as it came out last year, in 2024. I sought it out because some time a...

Suppose it to lie some few paces further inland than it does:—then must the storm-wind that drove it in from the sea have been stronger t...

Image created and edited in Canva by/ Imagen creada y editada en Canva por @freidimar18 I love immersing myself in reading and am alway...

That understanding can very well join something like freedom to a substance as its background, which substance, if closely examined, is h...

– Absolute activity is the one predicate that belongs to me purely and simply and immediately; the one and only possible way of presentin...

as a rational but finite, as a sensuous but free being. If, as we are surely entitled to do, we call this complete harmony with one’s sel...