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Title: Dickens' Stories About Children Every Child Can Read

Author: Charles Dickens

Editor: Jesse Lyman Hurlbut

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DICKENS' STORIES ABOUT CHILDREN EVERY CHILD CAN READ

Edited by

REV. JESSE LYMAN HURLBUT, D.D.

[Illustration: CHARLES DICKENS.]

Illustrated

[Illustration: Every Child's Library]

The John C. Winston Co.
Philadelphia

Copyright, 1909, By
The John C. Winston Co.

PREFACE.

TO THE YOUNG READER:

Charles Dickens was one of the greatest among the many story-writers of
"the Victorian age;" that is, the middle and latter part of the
Nineteenth Century, when Victoria was Queen of Great Britain. Perhaps he
was the greatest of them all for now, a generation after he passed away,
more people read the stories of Dickens than those by any other author
of that period. In those wonderful writings are found many pictures of
child-life connected with the plan of the novels or stories. These
child-stories have been taken out of their connections and are told by
themselves in this volume. By and by you will read for yourselves, "The
Christmas Carol," "The Chimes," "David Copperfield," "The Old Curiosity
Shop," and the o