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CHAPTER XVIII

Concluding Remarks

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Postscript

210 p. xvLIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

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Emigrants

Marcus Stone, R.A.

Frontispiece

The Solitary Prisoner

Black and White

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The Little Wife

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THE OLD CURIOSITY SHOP By Charles Dickens

CONTENTS

## CHAPTER 1 ## CHAPTER 2 ## CHAPTER 3 ## CHAPTER 4 ## CHAPTER 5 ## CHAPTER 6 ## CHAPTER 7 ## CHAPTER 8 ## CHAPTER 9 ## CHAPTER 10 ## CHAPTER 11 ## CHAPTER 12 ## CHAPTER 13 ## CHAPTER 14 ## CHAPTER 15 ## CHAPTER 16 ## CHAPTER 17 ## CHAPTER 18 ## CHAPTER 19 ## CHAPTER 20 ## CHAPTER 21 ## CHAPTER 22 ## CHAPTER 23 ## CHAPTER 24 ## CHAPTER 25 ## CHAPTER 26 ## CHAPTER 27 ## CHAPTER 28 ## CHAPTER 29 ## CHAPTER 30 ## CHAPTER 31 ## CHAPTER 32 ## CHAPTER 33 ## CHAPTER 34 ## CHAPTER 35 ## CHAPTER 36 ## CHAPTER 37 ## CHAPTER 38 ## CHAPTER 39 ## CHAPTER 40 ## CHAPTER 41 ## CHAPTER 42 ## CHAPTER 43 ## CHAPTER 44 ## CHAPTER 45 ## CHAPTER 46 ## CHAPTER 47 ## CHAPTER 48 ## CHAPTER 49 ## CHAPTER 50 ## CHAPTER 51 ## CHAPTER 52 ## CHAPTER 53 ## CHAPTER 54 ## CHAPTER 55 ## CHAPTER 56 ## CHAPTER 57 ## CHAPTER 58 ## CHAPTER 59 ## CHAPTER 60 ## CHAPTER 61 ## CHAPTER 62 ## CHAPTER 63 ## CHAPTER 64 ## CHAPTER 65 ## CHAPTER 66 ## CHAPTER 67 ## CHAPTER 68 ## CHAPTER 69 ## CHAPTER 70 ## CHAPTER 71 ## CHAPTER 72 ## CHAPTER 73 DAVID COPPERFIELD By Charles Dickens

CONTENTS

PREFACE TO 1850 EDITION

PREFACE TO THE CHARLES DICKENS EDITION

THE PERSONAL HISTORY AND EXPERIENCE OF DAVID COPPERFIELD THE YOUNGER

## CHAPTER 1 . — I AM BORN

## CHAPTER 2 . — I OBSERVE

## CHAPTER 3 . — I HAVE A CHANGE

## CHAPTER 4 . — I FALL INTO DISGRACE

## CHAPTER 5 . — I AM SENT AWAY FROM HOME

## CHAPTER 6 . — I ENLARGE MY CIRCLE OF ACQUAINTANCE

## CHAPTER 7 . — MY ‘FIRST HALF’ AT SALEM HOUSE

## CHAPTER 8 . — MY HOLIDAYS. ESPECIALLY ONE HAPPY AFTERNOON

## CHAPTER 9 . — I HAVE A MEMORABLE BIRTHDAY

## CHAPTER 10 . — I BECOME NEGLECTED, AND AM PROVIDED FOR

## CHAPTER 11 . — I BEGIN LIFE ON MY OWN ACCOUNT, AND DON’T LIKE IT

## CHAPTER 12 . — LIKING LIFE ON MY OWN ACCOUNT NO BETTER, I FORM A GREAT RESOLUTION

## CHAPTER 13 . — THE SEQUEL OF MY RESOLUTION

## CHAPTER 14 . — MY AUNT MAKES UP HER MIND ABOUT ME

## CHAPTER 15 . — I MAKE ANOTHER BEGINNING

## CHAPTER 16 . — I AM A NEW BOY IN MORE SENSES THAN ONE

## CHAPTER 17 . — SOMEBODY TURNS UP

## CHAPTER 18 . — A RETROSPECT

## CHAPTER 19 . — I LOOK ABOUT ME, AND MAKE A DISCOVERY

## CHAPTER 20 . — STEERFORTH’S HOME

## CHAPTER 21 . — LITTLE EM’LY

## CHAPTER 22 . — SOME OLD SCENES, AND SOME NEW PEOPLE

## CHAPTER 23 . — I CORROBORATE Mr. DICK, AND CHOOSE A PROFESSION

## CHAPTER 24 . — MY FIRST DISSIPATION

## CHAPTER 25 . — GOOD AND BAD ANGELS

## CHAPTER 26 . — I FALL INTO CAPTIVITY

## CHAPTER 27 . — TOMMY TRADDLES

## CHAPTER 28 . — Mr. MICAWBER’S GAUNTLET

## CHAPTER 29 . — I VISIT STEERFORTH AT HIS HOME, AGAIN

## CHAPTER 30 . — A LOSS

## CHAPTER 31 . — A GREATER LOSS

## CHAPTER 32 . — THE BEGINNING OF A LONG JOURNEY

## CHAPTER 33 . — BLISSFUL

## CHAPTER 34 . — MY AUNT ASTONISHES ME

## CHAPTER 35 . — DEPRESSION

## CHAPTER 36 . — ENTHUSIASM

## CHAPTER 37 . — A LITTLE COLD WATER

## CHAPTER 38 . — A DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP

## CHAPTER 39 . — WICKFIELD AND HEEP

## CHAPTER 40 . — THE WANDERER

## CHAPTER 41 . — DORA’S AUNTS

## CHAPTER 42 . — MISCHIEF

## CHAPTER 43 . — ANOTHER RETROSPECT

## CHAPTER 44 . — OUR HOUSEKEEPING

## CHAPTER 45 . — MR. DICK FULFILS MY AUNT’S PREDICTIONS

## CHAPTER 46 . — INTELLIGENCE

## CHAPTER 47 . — MARTHA

## CHAPTER 48 . — DOMESTIC

## CHAPTER 49 . — I AM INVOLVED IN MYSTERY

## CHAPTER 50 . — Mr. PEGGOTTY’S DREAM COMES TRUE

## CHAPTER 51 . — THE BEGINNING OF A LONGER JOURNEY

## CHAPTER 52 . — I ASSIST AT AN EXPLOSION

## CHAPTER 53 . — ANOTHER RETROSPECT

## CHAPTER 54 . — Mr. MICAWBER’S TRANSACTIONS

## CHAPTER 55 . — TEMPEST

## CHAPTER 56 . — THE NEW WOUND, AND THE OLD

## CHAPTER 57 . — THE EMIGRANTS

## CHAPTER 58 . — ABSENCE

## CHAPTER 59 . — RETURN

## CHAPTER 60 . — AGNES

## CHAPTER 61 . — I AM SHOWN TWO INTERESTING PENITENTS

## CHAPTER 62 . — A LIGHT SHINES ON MY WAY

## CHAPTER 63 . — A VISITOR

## CHAPTER 64 . — A LAST RETROSPECT

HARD TIMES By Charles Dickens CONTENTS

BOOK THE FIRST. SOWING

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## CHAPTER I The One Thing Needful

## CHAPTER II Murdering the Innocents

## CHAPTER III A Loophole

## CHAPTER IV Mr. Bounderby

## CHAPTER V The Keynote

## CHAPTER VI Sleary’s Horsemanship

## CHAPTER VII Mrs. Sparsit

## CHAPTER VIII Never Wonder

## CHAPTER IX Sissy’s Progress

## CHAPTER X Stephen Blackpool

## CHAPTER XI No Way Out

## CHAPTER XII The Old Woman

## CHAPTER XIII Rachael

## CHAPTER XIV The Great Manufacturer

## CHAPTER XV Father and Daughter

## CHAPTER XVI Husband and Wife

BOOK THE SECOND. REAPING

## CHAPTER I Effects in the Bank

## CHAPTER II Mr. James Harthouse

## CHAPTER III The Whelp

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## CHAPTER IV Men and Brothers

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## CHAPTER V Men and Masters

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## CHAPTER VI Fading Away

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## CHAPTER VII Gunpowder

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## CHAPTER VIII Explosion

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## CHAPTER IX Hearing the Last of it

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## CHAPTER X Mrs. Sparsit’s Staircase

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## CHAPTER XI Lower and Lower

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## CHAPTER XII Down

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BOOK THE THIRD. GARNERING

## CHAPTER I Another Thing Needful

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## CHAPTER II Very Ridiculous

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## CHAPTER III Very Decided

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## CHAPTER IV Lost

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## CHAPTER V Found

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## CHAPTER VI The Starlight

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## CHAPTER VII Whelp-Hunting

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## CHAPTER VIII Philosophical

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