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Sketches by Boz (1800)

Sketches by Boz (1800)

Historical Fiction Classics Literary Fiction Short Stories

Charles Dickens, Marcus Stone, George Cruikshank

Year: 1800
Authors: Charles Dickens, Marcus Stone, George Cruikshank
Print type: BOOK

Description:

How much is conveyed in those two short words - 'The Parish!' And with how many tales of distress and misery, of broken fortune and ruined hopes, too often of unrelieved wretchedness and successful knavery, are they associated! A poor man, with small earnings, and a large family, just manages to live on from hand to mouth, and to procure food from day to day; he has barely sufficient to satisfy the present cravings of nature, and can take no heed of the future.