Best Stories
Charles Dickens' Best Stories
Charles Dickens; Edited by Morton Dauwen Zabel
- Garden City, NY Hanover House 1959
- 669 p.
Introduction Prelude: The opening scene : The Streets - morning : The Streets - Night : shops and their tenants : Scotland Yard : London recreations : the river : early coaches : Omnibuses : Gin-shops : Criminal courts : A Christmas Dinner Christmas and its ghosts : A Christmas Carol : The Chimes : The Cricket on the hearth : The battle of life : The haunted man and the Ghost's bargain Life and its battle : The holly-tee : Somebody's Luggage : Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings : Doctor Marigold : Mugby Junction Tales for the Dusk : Hunted down : George Silverman's explanation : The detective police : Three 'Detective anecdotes : The Pair of gloves, the artful touch, and the sofa : To be read at dusk : A child's dream of a star