Short Stories - Volume VIII: To Be Read at Dusk, The Trial for Murder, A Walk in a Workhouse, What Christmas Is as We Grow Older, The Wreck of the Gol

By Charles Dickens

Classic from the year 2009 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, language: English, abstract: To Be Read at Dusk One, two, three, four, five. There were five of them. Five couriers, sitting on a bench outside the convent on the summit of the Great St. Bernard in Switzerland, looking at the remote heights, stained by the setting sun as if a mighty quantity of red wine had been broached upon the mountain top, and had not yet had time to sink into the snow. ...] *** The Trial for Murder I have always noticed a prevalent want of courage, even among persons of superior intelligence and culture, as to imparting their own psychological experiences when those have been of a strange sort. ...] *** A Walk in a Workhouse On a certain Sunday, I formed one of the congregation assembled in the chapel of a large metropolitan Workhouse. With the exception of the clergyman and clerk, and a very few officials, there were none but paupers present. ...] *** What Christmas Is as We Grow Older Time was, with most of us, when Christmas Day encircling all our limited world like a magic ring, left nothing out for us to miss or seek; bound together all our home enjoyments, affections, and hopes; grouped everything and every one around the Christmas fire; and made the little picture shining in our bright young eyes, complete. ...] *** The Wreck of the Golden Mary THE WRECK I was apprenticed to the Sea when I was twelve years old, and I have encountered a great deal of rough weather, both literal and metaphorical. It has always been my opinion since I first possessed such a thing as an opinion, that the man who knows only one subject is next tiresome to the man who knows no subject. ...] *** A Message from the Sea CHAPTER I - THE VILLAGE "And a mighty sing'lar and pretty place it is, as ever I saw in all the days of my life " said Captain Jorgan, looking up at it. Captain Jorgan had to look high to look at it, for the village was bui

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3640246896
• ISBN13: 9783640246892
• Release Date: January 2009
• Publisher: Grin Verlag
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.39 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.8" x 8.3"