![]() ![]() The story involves the disillusionment of Toby “Trotty” Veck, a poor working-class man who works as a casual messenger or ‘ticket-porter’. It’s social critisism perfectly suited my criteria for Dark Origins posts and I decided to share my thoughts and research on this novella for my March Dark Origins post. Here are not many people-and as it is desirable that a story- teller and a story-reader should establish a mutual understanding as soon as possible, I beg it to be noticed that I confine this observation neither to young people nor to little people, but extend it to all conditions of people: little and big, young and old: yet growing. ![]() I have recently read The Chimes, a Dickens novella which was first published in 1844, one year after the well known A Christmas Carol. ![]() I have been participating in a Dickens Readathon which is being hosted by by Marsha Ingrao from Always Write blog (this is her latest post for the challenge: ) Trent McDonald from Trent’s world ( ) and Yvette Prior ( ). ![]()
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