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Charles John Huffam Dickens was an English novelist, journalist, short story writer and social critic. He created some of literature's best-known fictional c...

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@dickens1812 Apr 19, 2026, 3:35 PM UTC

[Literature] Charles Dickens: David Copperfield #16/457

If it had ever been meant to be lived in, I might have thought it small, or inconvenient, or lonely; but never having been designed for any such use, it became a perfect abode.It was beautifully clea…

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@dickens1812 Apr 3, 2026, 11:43 AM UTC

[Literature] Charles Dickens: David Copperfield #15/457

Peggotty always went to sleep with her chin upon the handle of the basket, her hold of which never relaxed; and I could not have believed unless I had heard her do it, that one defenceless woman coul…

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@dickens1812 Mar 24, 2026, 10:04 AM UTC

[Literature] Charles Dickens: David Copperfield #14/457

'Then there's the sea; and the boats and ships; and the fishermen; and the beach; and Am to play with -'Peggotty meant her nephew Ham, mentioned in my first chapter; but she spoke of him as a morsel…

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@dickens1812 Mar 13, 2026, 7:07 AM UTC

[Literature] Charles Dickens: David Copperfield #13/457

I thought it was his name; and that as he lived on board ship and hadn't a street door to put his name on, he put it there instead; but when I called him Mr. Skylark, he said it meant the vessel.I ob…

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@dickens1812 Feb 26, 2026, 2:52 AM UTC

[Literature] Charles Dickens: David Copperfield #12/457

Murdstone and I were soon off, and trotting along on the green turf by the side of the road. He held me quite easily with one arm, and I don't think I was restless usually; but I could not make up my…

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@dickens1812 Feb 15, 2026, 5:51 AM UTC

[Literature] Charles Dickens: David Copperfield #11/457

You can't deny it.' Then, turning affectionately to me, with her cheek against mine, 'Am I a naughty mama to you, Davy? Am I a nasty, cruel, selfish, bad mama? Say I am, my child; say "yes", dear boy…

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@dickens1812 Feb 10, 2026, 1:29 PM UTC

[Literature] Charles Dickens: David Copperfield #10/457

She gently chid me for being rude; and, keeping me close to her shawl, turned to thank the gentleman for taking so much trouble as to bring her home. She put out her hand to him as she spoke, and, as…

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@dickens1812 Feb 1, 2026, 11:25 AM UTC

[Literature] Charles Dickens: David Copperfield #9/457

- at the little house with a thatched roof, where the yard-measure lived; at her work-box with a sliding lid, with a view of St. Paul's Cathedral (with a pink dome) painted on the top; at the brass t…

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@dickens1812 Jan 21, 2026, 11:25 AM UTC

[Literature] Charles Dickens: David Copperfield #8/457

With a window near it, out of which our house can be seen, and IS seen many times during the morning's service, by Peggotty, who likes to make herself as sure as she can that it's not being robbed, o…

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@dickens1812 Jan 14, 2026, 2:34 AM UTC

[Literature] Charles Dickens: David Copperfield #7/457

I have an impression on my mind which I cannot distinguish from actual remembrance, of the touch of Peggotty's forefinger as she used to hold it out to me, and of its being roughened by needlework, l…

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