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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: A SKETCH OF THE LIFE OF CHAELES DICKENS. Chakles Dickens, the most popular novelist of his time, and one... read more
Ridiculously Simplified Synopsis edit
Characters/People edit
- John Peerybingle: The popular carrier, a simple middle aged man with a young wife
- Dot (Mary Peerybingle: The young vivacious wife of the carrier. Good natured and naive.
- Tilly Slowboy: Add a description of this character.
- Caleb Plummer: The old doll's house maker
- Tackleton: The toy merchant a dour, mean and uncharitable businessman
- Bertha Plummer: The blind doll's dress maker, harpist and suffering heroine.
- Edward Plummer: The long lost son and dashing hero
- May Fielding: The unwilling fiance of Tackleton but beloved of Edward Plummer
- Mrs Feilding: A widow in straightened circumstances on account of the failure of the indigo trade.
Setting & Locations edit
England mid Nineteenth Century
First Sentence edit
The kettle began it!
Table of Contents edit
Chirp the First
Chiro the second
Chirp the third
Subjects edit
- Books › Literature & Fiction › World Literature › British › Classics › Dickens, Charles
- Books › Literature & Fiction › Authors, A-Z › ( D ) › Dickens, Charles
- Books › Children's Books › Holidays & Festivals › Christmas › Fiction
- Books › Children's Books › Literature › Classics by Age
- Books › Children's Books › Ages 9-12
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