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Title: Tales from Dickens

Author: Charles Dickens and Hallie Erminie Rives

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TALES FROM DICKENS

By

HALLIE ERMINIE RIVES

Author of
The Castaway, Hearts Courageous
A Furnace of Earth, etc.

With Illustrations by Reginald B. Birch

[Illustration: David Copperfield and his friend, Mr. Micawber
_See page 112_]

Indianapolis
The Bobbs-Merrill Company
Publishers

Copyright 1905
The Bobbs-Merrill Company
November

To

GEORGE BAKER ROBBINS, JR.

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 Litt