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  2. Charles (short story) - Wikipedia

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    "Charles" is a short story by Shirley Jackson, first published in Mademoiselle in July 1948. It was later included in her 1949 collection, The Lottery and Other Stories , and her 1953 novel, Life Among the Savages .

  3. Mugby Junction - Wikipedia

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    "Mugby Junction" is a set of short stories written in 1866 by Charles Dickens and collaborators Charles Collins, Amelia B. Edwards, Andrew Halliday, and Hesba Stretton. It was first published in a Christmas edition of the magazine All the Year Round. Dickens penned a majority of the issue, including the frame narrative in which "the Gentleman ...

  4. Charles Dickens - Wikipedia

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    Charles John Huffam Dickens (/ ˈ d ɪ k ɪ n z / ⓘ; 7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English novelist, journalist, short story writer and social critic.He created some of literature's best-known fictional characters, and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. [1]

  5. The Signal-Man - Wikipedia

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    "The Signal-Man" is a horror mystery story by Charles Dickens, first published as part of the Mugby Junction collection in the 1866 Christmas edition of All the Year Round.The story is told from a fictional first-person perspective.

  6. Charles - Wikipedia

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    Charles is a masculine given name predominantly found in English and French speaking countries. [1] ... "Charles", a short story by Shirley Jackson;

  7. Bluebeard - Wikipedia

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    In Charles Dickens' short story "Captain Murderer" (1860), the title character is described as "an offshoot of the Bluebeard family". The twist of this story is that he cannibalises each wife shortly after marriage, baking her flesh in a huge meat pie. He meets his demise after his sister-in-law, in revenge for the death of her sister (his next ...

  8. Master Humphrey's Clock - Wikipedia

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    Master Humphrey's Clock was a weekly periodical edited and written entirely by Charles Dickens and published from 4 April 1840 to 4 December 1841. It began with a frame story in which Master Humphrey tells about himself and his small circle of friends (which includes Mr. Pickwick), and their penchant for telling stories.

  9. The Ridiculous Wishes - Wikipedia

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    "A long black pudding came winding and wriggling towards her" Illustration by Harry Clarke. [1]The Ridiculous Wishes or The Three Ridiculous Wishes (French: Les Souhaits ridicules) is a French literary fairy tale by Charles Perrault published in 1697 in the volume titled Histoires ou contes du temps passé.