Charles Dickens' Children Stories
1900
Charles Dickens' Children Stories
1900
Charles Dickens wrote some of literature's most heartbreaking tales of childhood, and this collection gathers his most touching stories young readers. Here you'll find Nell of The Old Curiosity Shop, wandering through the dark corners of Victorian London with only her grandfather for company. You'll meet Pip, the blacksmith's boy who dared to dream beyond his station. Most beloved of all is Trotty Veck, the humble ticket-porter whose faith in his daughter Meg sustains him through every hardship, and whose story unfolds in The Chimes, a novella about the dignity of the poor and the cruelty of forgetting the vulnerable among us. These are not simple fairy tales. Dickens understood that childhood could be brutal, that poverty bit deep, and that kindness was sometimes the only armor a child could wear. Yet his stories shimmer with hope, with the stubborn insistence that love and moral courage matter more than money or status. This collection, published around 1900, preserves those essential tales told for a new generation. It is for the child who loves a good cry, for the parent who wants to share Victorian England's moral complexity, for anyone who believes stories can teach us to be gentler people.
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“Neither did I expect to come, father," said Meg, smiling. "But here I am! And not alone, not alone!””
— Charles Dickens
“TROTTY" seems a strange name for an old man, but it was given to Toby Veck because of his always going at a trot to do his errands; for he was a porter, and carried letters and messages for people who were in too great a hurry to send them by the post. He did not earn very much, and had to be out in all weathers and all day long. But Toby was of a cheerful””
— Charles Dickens
“Mrs. Chickenstalker””
— Charles Dickens
“One cold day Toby had been trotting up and down in his usual place before the church, when the bells chimed twelve o'clock, which made Toby think of dinner. "There's nothing," he remarked, "more regular in coming round than dinner-time, and nothing less regular in coming round than dinner. That's the great difference between 'em." He went on talking to himself never noticing who was coming near to him. "Why,””
— Charles Dickens
“Paul did not like Mrs. Pipchin, but he would sit in his arm-chair and look at her. Her ugliness seemed to fascinate him.””
— Charles Dickens
“I can see her. Come close to me, Floy, and tell them," whispered the dying boy, "that the face of the picture of Christ on the staircase at school is not divine enough; the light from it is shining on me now, and the water is shining too, and rippling so fast, so fast." The evening light shone””
— Charles Dickens
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