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Description

Woes of Victorian life for the underclass.

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First Sentence

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Table of Contents

Introduction

Book I: Sowing
1. The One Thing Needful
2. Murdering the Innocents
3. A Loophole
4. Mr Bounderby
5. The Key-note
6. Sleary's Horsemanship
7. Mrs Sparsit
8. Never Wonder
9. Sissy's Progress
10. Stephen Blackpool
11. No Way Out
12. The Old Woman
13. Rachael
14. The Great Manufacturer
15. Father and Daughter
16. Husband and Wife

Book II: Reaping
1. Effects in the Bank
2. Mr James Harthouse
3. The Whelp
4. Men and Brothers
5. Men and Masters
6. Fading Away
7. Gunpowder
8. Explosion
9. Hearing the Last of It
10. Mrs Sparsit's Staircase
11. Lower and Lower
12. Down

Book III: Gathering
1. Another Thing Needful
2. Very Ridiculous
3. Very Decided
4. Lost
5. Found
6. The Starlight
7. Whelp-hunting
8. Philosophical
9. Final

Authors & Contributors

  1. Charles Dickens (Author)
  2. Paul Schlicke

Other Contributors:

  1. David Craig (Introduction)
 

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