The Perils of Certain English Prisoners [Christmas Stories, 1894 Edition]
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| Title: | The Perils of Certain English Prisoners [Christmas Stories, 1894 Edition] |
| Author: | |
| Published: | 1857 |
| Publisher: | Chapman and Hall |
| Tags: | Christmas, fiction, short story |
| Description: | When the pirates attack Silver-Store Island (in the vicinity of the British colony of Belize) aided by the turncoat King, they murder a number of the British colonists before stealing the silver and taking a number of the survivors hostage before retreating to the interior of Honduras. Under the combined initiative of Miss Maryon and Davis, the captives manage to escape down river. —Victorianweb.org
Originally published in the Christmas edition of Household Words of 1857; the text of the second chapter by Wilkie Collins has been omitted. [Suggest a different description.] |
| Comments: | From the 1894 Chapman and Hall edition of Christmas Stories. Full version from Household Words separately available. |
| Downloads: | 226 |
| Pages: | 40  |
Author Bio for Dickens, Charles
Charles John Huffam Dickens was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime, and by the twentieth century critics and scholars had recognised him as a literary genius. His novels and short stories enjoy lasting popularity.
Born in Portsmouth, Dickens left school to work in a factory when his father was incarcerated in a debtors' prison. Despite his lack of formal education, he edited a weekly journal for 20 years, wrote 15 novels, five novellas, hundreds of short stories and non-fiction articles, lectured and performed extensively, was an indefatigable letter writer, and campaigned vigorously for children's rights, education, and other social reforms.
Dickens's literary success began with the 1836 serial publication of The Pickwick Papers. Within a few years he had become an international literary...
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