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By William Daniell (1769-1837), via Wikimedia Commons. Licence: Public domain.
William Wordsworth comes back from France and realises with a shock what his own country has become.
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By Adolph Tidemand (1814–1876), Wikimedia Commons. Public domain.
Pip receives a visitor from among the criminal classes, but his condescending attempt to play the gentleman rebounds spectacularly.
© Hari K Patibanda, Wikimedia Commons. Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0.
A little anecdote about a schoolmaster who wasn’t as much of a Wackford Squeers as he appeared to be.
© ITookSomePhotos, Wikimedia Commons. Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0.
A much-loved children’s poem, even if most of us struggle to remember more than a few lines.
By Edward Dayes (1763-1804), via the Yale Center for British Art and Wikimedia Commons. Licence: Public domain.
Mr Pickwick has embarked on a tour of Kent, and this sunny morning finds him leaning over the parapet of Rochester Bridge, deep in reflection.
By Michel Martin Drolling (1786-1851), via Wikimedia Commons. Licence: Public domain.
Now that Mr Willoughby has been found, and found to be married, Elinor Dashwood has the disagreeable task of making sure that her sister feels it is all for the best.