Pip receives a visitor from among the criminal classes, but his condescending attempt to play the gentleman rebounds spectacularly.
Length: 114 words
Charles Dickens
Rochester Reverie
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.
Length: 106 words
Mediaeval History
The Harrying of the North
Charles Dickens laments William the Conqueror’s brutal rampage
through rebellious Durham and Yorkshire.
Length: 111 words
Mediaeval History
Hereward the Wake
Charles Dickens tells the story of Hereward the Wake, the
last Englishman to stand up to William the Conqueror.
Length: 114 words
Extracts from Literature
Mrs Nickleby’s Cold Cure
Charmed by their attentions to her daughter Kate, Mrs Nickleby rewards
Mr Pyke and Mr Pluck with a reminiscence about her favourite home remedy for colds.
Length: 114 words
Extracts from Literature
‘Have a Care What You Do’
Lord George Gordon marched at the head of 50,000 protestors to the
House of Commons, to demand that George III’s England did not become like Louis XVI’s France.