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    Holiday Romance
    Holiday Romance
    Holiday Romance
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    Holiday Romance

    By Charles Dickens

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    Charles Dickens needs no formal introduction, having been the most popular English writer of the 19th century and still one of the most popular writers in history today. Dickens was obsessed with reading, making him a natural journalist by the age of 20, when he began a career in journalism. Along the way, he also began writing his own short stories and materials, often serializing them in monthly installments in publications, a popular method of publishing in the 19th century. Unlike most writers, Dickens would not write an entire story before it began its serialization, allowing him to work on the fly and leave plot lines up in the air with each opportunity. 


    By the time he died at the relatively young age of 58 from a stroke, he was already Europe’s most famous writer. His obituary noted that Dickens was a “sympathiser with the poor, the suffering, and the oppressed.” Dickens was interred in Westminster Abbey, a rare honor bestowed only among the greatest and most accomplished Britons. 
    Many of Dickens’ novels were written with the concept of social reform in mind, and Dickens’ work was often praised for its realism, comic genius and unique personalities. At the same time, however, Dickens’ ability as a writer was nearly unrivaled, with his ability to write in prose unquestioned and unmatched. 
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherKrill Press
    Release dateDec 24, 2015
    ISBN9781518345890
    Holiday Romance
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    Charles Dickens

    Charles Dickens (1812-1870) was one of England's greatest writers. Best known for his classic serialized novels, such as Oliver Twist, A Tale of Two Cities, and Great Expectations, Dickens wrote about the London he lived in, the conditions of the poor, and the growing tensions between the classes. He achieved critical and popular international success in his lifetime and was honored with burial in Westminster Abbey.

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      Holiday Romance - Charles Dickens

      HOLIDAY ROMANCE

      ..................

      Charles Dickens

      PITHY PRESS

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      This book is a work of fiction; its contents are wholly imagined.

      All rights reserved. Aside from brief quotations for media coverage and reviews, no part of this book may be reproduced or distributed in any form without the author’s permission. Thank you for supporting authors and a diverse, creative culture by purchasing this book and complying with copyright laws.

      Copyright © 2015 by Charles Dickens

      Interior design by Pronoun

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      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      PART I. INTRODUCTORY ROMANCE PROM THE PEN OF WILLIAM TINKLING, ESQ. [251]

      PART II. ROMANCE.  FROM THE PEN OF MISS ALICE RAINBIRD [258]

      PART III. ROMANCE.  FROM THE PEN OF LIEUT.-COL. ROBIN REDFORTH [266]

      PART IV. ROMANCE FROM THE PEN OF MISS NETTIE ASHFORD [274]

      Holiday Romance

      By

      Charles Dickens

      Holiday Romance

      Published by Pithy Press

      New York City, NY

      First published circa 1870

      Copyright © Pithy Press, 2015

      All rights reserved

      Except in the United States of America, this book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, re-sold, hired out, or otherwise circulated without the publisher’s prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser.

      About PITHY Press

      Edgar Allan Poe once advised would-be writers to never waste a word, and indeed, some of literature’s greatest works are some of the shortest. Pithy Press publishes the greatest short stories ever written, from the realism of Anton Chekhov to the humor of O. Henry.

      PART I. INTRODUCTORY ROMANCE PROM THE PEN OF WILLIAM TINKLING, ESQ. [251]

      ..................

      THIS BEGINNING-PART IS NOT MADE out of anybody’s head, you know.  It’s real.  You must believe this beginning-part more than what comes after, else you won’t understand how what comes after came to be written.  You must believe it all; but you must believe this most, please.  I am the editor of it.  Bob Redforth (he’s my cousin, and shaking the table on purpose) wanted to be the editor of it; but I said he shouldn’t because he couldn’t.  He has no idea of being an editor.

      Nettie Ashford is my bride.  We were married in the right-hand closet in the corner of the dancing-school, where first we met, with a ring (a green one) from Wilkingwater’s toy-shop.  I owed for it out of my pocket-money.  When the rapturous ceremony was over, we all four went up the lane and let off a cannon (brought loaded in Bob Redforth’s waistcoat-pocket) to announce our nuptials.  It flew right up when it went off, and turned over.  Next day, Lieut.-Col. Robin Redforth was united, with similar ceremonies, to Alice Rainbird.  This time the cannon burst with a most terrific explosion, and made a puppy bark.

      My peerless bride was, at the period of which we now treat, in captivity at Miss Grimmer’s.  Drowvey and Grimmer is the partnership, and opinion is divided which is the greatest beast.  The lovely bride of the colonel was also immured in the dungeons of the same establishment.  A vow was entered into, between the colonel and myself, that we would cut them out on the following Wednesday when walking two and two.

      Under the desperate circumstances of the case, the active brain of the colonel, combining with his lawless pursuit (he is a pirate), suggested an attack with fireworks.  This, however, from motives of humanity, was abandoned as too expensive.

      Lightly armed with a paper-knife buttoned up under his jacket, and waving the dreaded black flag at the end of a cane, the colonel took command of me at two P.M. on the eventful and appointed day.  He had drawn

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