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Master of Victorian fiction Charles Dickens was at his best when comparing and contrasting different classes of society. In this imaginative short story, a traveling circus sets up shop in an affluent neighborhood. When the performers begin mingling with the community's bankers and businessmen, hijinks ensue.

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Publié par	The Floating Press
Date de parution	01 décembre 2015
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781776594658
Langue	English

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GOING INTO SOCIETY
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CHARLES DICKENS

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Going into Society First published in 1858 Epub ISBN 978-1-77659-465-8 Also available: PDF ISBN 978-1-77659-466-5 © 2014 The Floating Press and its licensors. All rights reserved. While every effort has been used to ensure the accuracy and reliability of the information contained in The Floating Press edition of this book, The Floating Press does not assume liability or responsibility for any errors or omissions in this book. The Floating Press does not accept responsibility for loss suffered as a result of reliance upon the accuracy or currency of information contained in this book. Do not use while operating a motor vehicle or heavy equipment. Many suitcases look alike. Visit www.thefloatingpress.com
Going into Society
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At one period of its reverses, the House fell into the occupation of aShowman. He was found registered as its occupier, on the parish books ofthe time when he rented the House, and there was therefore no need of anyclue to his name. But, he himself was less easy to be found; for, he hadled a wandering life, and settled people had lost sight of him, andpeople who plumed themselves on being respectable were shy of admittingthat they had ever known anything of him. At last, among the marsh landsnear the river's level, that lie about Deptford and the neighbouringmarket-gardens, a Grizzled Personage in velveteen, with a face so cut upby varieties of weather that he looked as if he had been tattooed, wasfound smoking a pipe at the door of a wooden house on wheels. The woodenhouse was laid up in ordinary for the winter, near the mouth of a muddycreek; and everything near it, the foggy river, the misty marshes, andthe steaming market-gardens, smoked in company with the grizzled man. Inthe midst of this smoking party, the funnel-chimney of the wooden houseon wheels was not remiss, but took its pipe with the rest in acompanionable manner.
On being asked if it were he who had once rented the House to Let,Grizzled Velveteen looked surprised, and said yes. Then his name wasMagsman? That was it, Toby Magsman—which lawfully christened Robert;but called in the line, from a infant, Toby.