Somebody's Luggage

Charles Dickens

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A head waiter finds a guest's abandoned luggage stuffed with manuscripts and, after seven years, sells them to a publisher — which is Dickens's excuse for a set of stories, including His Boots, one of the best things he wrote about a child. Sent at twelve to work in a blacking factory while his father sat in a debtors' prison, Dickens made these Christmas numbers of All the Year Round with a stable of contributors, and this one is the funniest.

Disponibile da: 22/07/2026.

Lunghezza di stampa: 59 pagine.

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