PostsCommentsPayoutsreadings (8)in #misfortune • 7 days ago[Literature] Charles Dickens: Sketches By Boz - Illustrated And Annotated Edition #6/347He has been one of those men one occasionally hears of, on whom misfortune seems to have set her mark; nothing he ever did, or was concerned in, appears to have prospered. A…readings (8)in #beadle • 13 days ago[Literature] Charles Dickens: Sketches By Boz - Illustrated And Annotated Edition #5/347After putting forth his right leg now and then, as a feeler, the victim who dropped the money ventures to make one or two distinct dives after it; and the beadle, gliding softly…readings (8)in #charity • 17 days ago[Literature] Charles Dickens: Sketches By Boz - Illustrated And Annotated Edition #4/347A poor man, with small earnings, and a large family, just manages to live on from hand to mouth, and to procure food from day to day; he has barely sufficient to satisfy the…readings (8)in #suspense • 25 days ago[Literature] Charles Dickens: Sketches By Boz - Illustrated And Annotated Edition #3/347Suspense of any kind, as Forster says, was intolerable to him, so the next day he wrote again to his friend. "I sent down just now to know whether you were at home (two…readings (8)in #sketches • 28 days ago[Literature] Charles Dickens: Sketches By Boz - Illustrated And Annotated Edition #2/347Twenty sketches followed at intervals of a week or two, and four more constituted a brief series in the same paper in 1836. Meanwhile, he contributed a series of a dozen papers…readings (8)in #dickens • 2 months ago[Literature] Charles Dickens: Sketches By Boz - Illustrated And Annotated Edition #1/347Introduction The first bit of original writing by Dickens which found its way into print was the sketch in this volume entitled "Mr. Minns and his Cousin." In its first form…