Delving deeper into the Dickens canon this year feels like accidental nerd-maxxing for the Dickens Christmas Fair. #Dickens #pickwickpapers
March 2, 2026 at 8:54 PM
Delving deeper into the Dickens canon this year feels like accidental nerd-maxxing for the Dickens Christmas Fair. #Dickens #pickwickpapers
Meet Sam Weller, one of Dickens’ finest creations. If you’re ever dealing with sharks and charlatans, crackpots or crooks, he’s the chap you’d want by your side. #PickwickPapers #RoyalDoulton
March 25, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Meet Sam Weller, one of Dickens’ finest creations. If you’re ever dealing with sharks and charlatans, crackpots or crooks, he’s the chap you’d want by your side. #PickwickPapers #RoyalDoulton
gentlemen, I shall be very much obliged to you, and so will they too, when they come to know me. Your healths, gentlemen.’
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July 10, 2025 at 6:11 PM
gentlemen, I shall be very much obliged to you, and so will they too, when they come to know me. Your healths, gentlemen.’
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The cover looks like the famous haunted house from Kincardine Ontario
(I had friends who lived there and they swore up and down it was haunted)
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(I had friends who lived there and they swore up and down it was haunted)
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Madison's Haunted Inn
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December 3, 2025 at 11:01 PM
The cover looks like the famous haunted house from Kincardine Ontario
(I had friends who lived there and they swore up and down it was haunted)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oelu...
(I had friends who lived there and they swore up and down it was haunted)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oelu...
The Wagon and Horses pub, Beckhampton, on the A4.
The 16th Century Public house is mentioned in the Charles Dickens novel “Pickwick Papers.” The pub was an important stop between Bristol and London.
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The 16th Century Public house is mentioned in the Charles Dickens novel “Pickwick Papers.” The pub was an important stop between Bristol and London.
#WagonAndHorses #PublicHouse #16thCentury #CharlesDickens #PickwickPapers
February 6, 2025 at 9:21 PM
The Wagon and Horses pub, Beckhampton, on the A4.
The 16th Century Public house is mentioned in the Charles Dickens novel “Pickwick Papers.” The pub was an important stop between Bristol and London.
#WagonAndHorses #PublicHouse #16thCentury #CharlesDickens #PickwickPapers
The 16th Century Public house is mentioned in the Charles Dickens novel “Pickwick Papers.” The pub was an important stop between Bristol and London.
#WagonAndHorses #PublicHouse #16thCentury #CharlesDickens #PickwickPapers
and what is rather remarkable,’ added the old man, with a shrewd look round the table, ‘he never came back again.’
‘That ain’t bad, if it’s true,’ said the man in the Mosaic studs, lighting a fresh cigar.
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‘That ain’t bad, if it’s true,’ said the man in the Mosaic studs, lighting a fresh cigar.
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October 31, 2025 at 11:02 PM
and what is rather remarkable,’ added the old man, with a shrewd look round the table, ‘he never came back again.’
‘That ain’t bad, if it’s true,’ said the man in the Mosaic studs, lighting a fresh cigar.
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‘That ain’t bad, if it’s true,’ said the man in the Mosaic studs, lighting a fresh cigar.
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‘He must have been a very ingenious young man, that, Sam,’ said Mr. Pickwick, with a slight shudder.
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August 30, 2026 at 6:39 PM
‘He must have been a very ingenious young man, that, Sam,’ said Mr. Pickwick, with a slight shudder.
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that they might be much more comfortable elsewhere, you will confer a very great benefit on society.”
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October 31, 2025 at 11:01 PM
that they might be much more comfortable elsewhere, you will confer a very great benefit on society.”
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What fragrant coolness revived him; what gushing sound was that? Water! It was indeed a well; and the clear fresh stream was running at his feet. He drank deeply of it, and throwing his aching limbs upon the bank, sank into a delicious trance.
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November 3, 2025 at 6:43 PM
What fragrant coolness revived him; what gushing sound was that? Water! It was indeed a well; and the clear fresh stream was running at his feet. He drank deeply of it, and throwing his aching limbs upon the bank, sank into a delicious trance.
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and I really think you might find much more comfortable quarters: to say nothing of the climate of London, which is extremely disagreeable.”
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October 31, 2025 at 11:00 PM
and I really think you might find much more comfortable quarters: to say nothing of the climate of London, which is extremely disagreeable.”
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and now might gnash his teeth in the other world, at the thought of the wealth his remissness had left him.
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November 3, 2025 at 6:44 PM
and now might gnash his teeth in the other world, at the thought of the wealth his remissness had left him.
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but the lips were pallid, and the smile faded into a rigid and ghastly stare. He was alone in the world.
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November 2, 2025 at 2:09 AM
but the lips were pallid, and the smile faded into a rigid and ghastly stare. He was alone in the world.
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Then rubbing his chin with his hand, and looking up to the ceiling as if to recall the circumstances to his memory, he began as follows:—
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October 31, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Then rubbing his chin with his hand, and looking up to the ceiling as if to recall the circumstances to his memory, he began as follows:—
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and the old man himself would have been immured in prison had he not escaped the vigilance of the officers, and fled.
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November 6, 2025 at 2:13 AM
and the old man himself would have been immured in prison had he not escaped the vigilance of the officers, and fled.
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Upon this hint Mr. Weller settled the bill, and, issuing forth, the executor, legatee, attorney, and umpires, directed their steps towards the city.
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July 10, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Upon this hint Mr. Weller settled the bill, and, issuing forth, the executor, legatee, attorney, and umpires, directed their steps towards the city.
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‘“Set me down, George,” she said faintly. He did so, and seating himself beside her, covered his face with his hands, and burst into tears.
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November 2, 2025 at 2:07 AM
‘“Set me down, George,” she said faintly. He did so, and seating himself beside her, covered his face with his hands, and burst into tears.
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‘And a wery good notion of a lunch it is, take it altogether,’ said Mr. Weller, surveying his arrangement of the repast with great satisfaction. ‘Now, gen’l’m’n, “fall on,” as the English said to the French when they fixed bagginets.’
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August 30, 2026 at 6:40 PM
‘And a wery good notion of a lunch it is, take it altogether,’ said Mr. Weller, surveying his arrangement of the repast with great satisfaction. ‘Now, gen’l’m’n, “fall on,” as the English said to the French when they fixed bagginets.’
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‘I shan’t venture to say anything at all about it, seeing that I never heard the story,’ observed the owner of the Mosaic decorations.
‘I wish you would repeat it, Sir,’ said Mr. Pickwick.
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‘I wish you would repeat it, Sir,’ said Mr. Pickwick.
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October 31, 2025 at 11:02 PM
‘I shan’t venture to say anything at all about it, seeing that I never heard the story,’ observed the owner of the Mosaic decorations.
‘I wish you would repeat it, Sir,’ said Mr. Pickwick.
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‘I wish you would repeat it, Sir,’ said Mr. Pickwick.
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spearing a wafer-box with a penknife, which he dropped every now and then with great dexterity into the very centre of a small red wafer that was stuck outside.
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July 10, 2025 at 9:50 PM
spearing a wafer-box with a penknife, which he dropped every now and then with great dexterity into the very centre of a small red wafer that was stuck outside.
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Ruin him, seize and sell his lands and goods, drive him from house and home, and drag him forth a beggar in his old age, to die in a common jail.”
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November 4, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Ruin him, seize and sell his lands and goods, drive him from house and home, and drag him forth a beggar in his old age, to die in a common jail.”
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Onward they bore, amidst the roaring mass of water, with a speed and force which nothing could resist; and striking the stem of the foremost vessel, crushed her beneath their keel.
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November 3, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Onward they bore, amidst the roaring mass of water, with a speed and force which nothing could resist; and striking the stem of the foremost vessel, crushed her beneath their keel.
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No tear, or sound of complaint escaped him; but the unsettled look, and disordered haste with which he paced up and down the yard, denoted the fever which was burning within.
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November 3, 2025 at 2:37 AM
No tear, or sound of complaint escaped him; but the unsettled look, and disordered haste with which he paced up and down the yard, denoted the fever which was burning within.
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#CharlesDickens
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‘I am not aweer, Sir, that you have any right to address your conversation to me. I don’t think I let these apartments to you, Sir.’
‘No, you certainly did not,’ said Mr. Benjamin Allen.
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#MrsRaddle
‘No, you certainly did not,’ said Mr. Benjamin Allen.
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June 22, 2025 at 3:44 PM
‘I am not aweer, Sir, that you have any right to address your conversation to me. I don’t think I let these apartments to you, Sir.’
‘No, you certainly did not,’ said Mr. Benjamin Allen.
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#MrsRaddle
‘No, you certainly did not,’ said Mr. Benjamin Allen.
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In 1889, 34 years later, he responded to a survey asking for books that were important for people or that they treasured ( #C19 #BookChallenge?). "David Copperfield" and "The Pickwickpapers" were #30, Walter Scott's novels were #29, Thackeray's "Vanity Fair" #30, "Beobachter an der Spree" #1.
December 5, 2024 at 3:53 PM
In 1889, 34 years later, he responded to a survey asking for books that were important for people or that they treasured ( #C19 #BookChallenge?). "David Copperfield" and "The Pickwickpapers" were #30, Walter Scott's novels were #29, Thackeray's "Vanity Fair" #30, "Beobachter an der Spree" #1.
The bones of men, who had perished in the dreary waste, lay scattered at his feet; a fearful light fell on everything around; so far as the eye could reach, nothing but objects of dread and horror presented themselves.
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November 3, 2025 at 6:42 PM
The bones of men, who had perished in the dreary waste, lay scattered at his feet; a fearful light fell on everything around; so far as the eye could reach, nothing but objects of dread and horror presented themselves.
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#CharlesDickens
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