Tales from Dickens

by Hallie Erminie Rives; Charles Dickens

REGINALD B. BIRCH

INDIANAPOLIS
THE BOBBS-MERRILL COMPANY
PUBLISHERS

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Copyright 1905
The Bobbs-Merrill Company

November

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To
GEORGE BAKER ROBBINS, Jr.

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CONTENTS

CHARLES DICKENS		[1]
THE OLD CURIOSITY SHOP
I	Little Nell	[19]
II	The Wanderers	[26]
III	The Search	[35]
OLIVER TWIST
I	How Oliver Came to London and What He Found There	[49]
II	Oliver's Adventures	[58]
III	How Everything Turned Out Right for Oliver in the End	[65]
BARNABY RUDGE
I	Barnaby's Boyhood	[77]
II	The Mysterious Stranger and Who He Was	[83]
III	Barnaby Gets Into Trouble	[89]
IV	Barnaby Prospers at Last	[95]
DAVID COPPERFIELD
I	David's Early Ups and Downs	[105]
II	Little Em'ly	[115]
III	David and His Child-Wife	[120]
IV	David Finds All Well at Last	[124]
GREAT EXPECTATIONS
I	Pip and the Convict	[131]
II	The Queer Miss Havisham	[138]
III	Pip Discovers His Benefactor	[147]
IV	Pip Comes to Himself	[152]
NICHOLAS NICKLEBY
I	Nicholas at Dotheboys Hall	[161]
II	Nicholas Becomes an Actor	[167]
III	Nicholas Comes to Kate's Rescue	[171]
IV	What Happened to Everybody	[175]
DOMBEY AND SON
I	Little Paul	[183]
II	How Florence Lost Her Father	[191]
III	How Florence Reached a Refuge	[199]
IV	How Florence Found Her Father at Last	[203]
THE PICKWICK PAPERS
I	The Pickwickians Begin Their Adventures. They Meet Mr. Alfred Jingle, and Winkle Is Involved in a Duel	[213]
II	Tupman Has a Love-Affair With a Spinster, and the Pickwickians Find Out the Real Character of Jingle	[218]
III	Mr. Pickwick Has an Interesting Scene With Mrs. Bardell, His Housekeeper. Further Pursuit of Jingle Leads to an Adventure at a Young Ladies' Boarding School	[224]
IV	Sam Weller Meets His Father, and the Pursuit of Jingle Is Continued. Mr. Pickwick Makes a Strange Call on a Middle-Aged Lady in Yellow Curl Papers	[230]
V	The Pickwickians Find Themselves in the Grasp of the Law. The Final Exposure of Jingle, and a Christmas Merrymaking	[233]
VI	The Celebrated Case of Bardell Against Pickwick. Sergeant Buzfuz's Speech and an Unexpected Verdict	[238]
VII	Winkle Has an Exciting Adventure With Mr. Dowler, and With the Aid of Mr. Pickwick and Sam Weller Discovers the Whereabouts of Miss Arabella Allen	[242]
VIII	Mr. Pickwick's Experiences in the Debtors' Prison, Where He Finds an Old Enemy and Heaps Coals of Fire on the Head of Mrs. Bardell	[248]
IX	Snodgrass Gets Into Difficulties, But Wins His Lady-Love. The Adventures of the Pickwickians Come to an End	[252]
LITTLE DORRIT
I	How Arthur Came Home from China	[261]
II	The Child of the Marshalsea	[266]
III	What Riches Brought to the Dorrits	[274]
IV	What Happened to Arthur Clennam	[280]
V	"All's Well That Ends Well"	[284]
MARTIN CHUZZLEWIT
I	How Martin Left England	[295]
II	Pecksniff and Old Chuzzlewit	[302]
III	Jonas Gets Rid of an Enemy	[308]
IV	What Came of Martin's Trip to America	[313]
V	Old Chuzzlewit's Plot Succeeds	[318]
OUR MUTUAL FRIEND
I	What Happened to John Harmon	[325]
II	Lizzie Hexam and the Dolls' Dressmaker	[332]
III	The Rise and Fall of Silas Wegg	[337]
IV	Bella and the Golden Dustman	[343]
V	The End of the Story	[348]
A TALE OF TWO CITIES
I	How Lucie Found a Father	[357]
II	Darnay Caught in the Net	[367]
III	Sydney Carton's Sacrifice	[375]
BLEAK HOUSE
I	The Court of Chancery	[383]
II	Lady Dedlock's Secret	[390]
III	Little Joe Plays a Part	[398]
IV	Esther Becomes the Mistress of Bleak House	[405]
HARD TIMES
I	Mr. Gradgrind and His "System"	[413]
II	The Robbery of Bounderby's Bank	[420]
III	Harthouse's Plan Fails	[427]
IV	Stephen's Return	[432]
THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD
I	John Jasper	[441]
II	The Coming of Neville Landless	[444]
III	The Choirmaster's Dinner	[449]
IV	Jasper Shows His Teeth	[455]
INDEX TO CHARACTERS		[463]