Classic from the year 2009 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, language: English, abstract: Familiar Epistle from a Parent to a Child Aged Two Years and Two Months MY CHILD, To recount with what trouble I have brought you up--with what an anxious eye I have regarded your progress, --how late and how often I have sat up at night working for you, --and how many thousand letters I have received from, and written to your various relations and friends, many of whom have been of a querulous and irritable turn, --to dwell on the anxiety and tenderness with which I...

Classic from the year 2009 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, language: English, abstract: The Begging-Letter Writer The amount of money he annually diverts from wholesome and useful purposes in the United Kingdom, would be a set-off against the Window Tax. He is one of the most shameless frauds and impositions of this time. ...] *** Bill-Sticking IF I had an enemy whom I hated - which Heaven forbid - and if I knew of something which sat heavy on his conscience, I think I would introduce that something into a Posting-Bill, and place a large impression in...

Klassiker aus dem Jahr 2009 im Fachbereich Anglistik - Literatur, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Unter andern offentlichen Gebauden in einer gewissen Stadt, die ich nicht nennen, der ich aber auch andrerseits keinen erdichteten Namen beilegen mochte, befand sich eines, wie es wohl die meisten Stadte, ob gro oder klein, besitzen, namlich ein Arbeitshaus; und in diesem wurde eines Tages der kleine Weltburger geboren, dessen Name dieses Buch tragt. Lange Zeit, nachdem der Arzt des Kirchspiels ihm zum Eintritt in diese Welt der Muhen und Sorgen geholfen, schien es recht zweifelhaft, ob er lange...

Classic from the year 2009 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, language: English, abstract: I AM BORN Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show. To begin my life with the beginning of my life, I record that I was born (as I have been informed and believe) on a Friday, at twelve o'clock at night. It was remarked that the clock began to strike, and I began to cry, simultaneously. In consideration of the day and hour of my birth, it was declared by the nurse, and by some...

Classic from the year 2008 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, language: English, abstract: Among other public buildings in a certain town, which for many reasons it will be prudent to refrain from mentioning, and to which I will assign no fictitious name, there is one anciently common to most towns, great or small: to wit, a workhouse; and in this workhouse was born; on a day and date which I need not trouble myself to repeat, inasmuch as it can be of no possible consequence to the reader, in this stage of the business at all events; the item of mortality...

Classic from the year 2008 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, - entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: First published in 1844 ... 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 up, or already growing down again-there are not, I say, many people who would...

Klassiker aus dem Jahr 2008 im Fachbereich Anglistik - Literatur, - Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: First published in 1843 ... Marley was dead: to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker and the chief mourner. Scrooge signed it. And Scrooge's name was good upon 'Change, for anything he chose to put his hand to. Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail. Mind I don't mean to say that I know, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a door-nail. I might have...

Classic play adapted by award winning writer, Tanika Gupta.

Classic from the year 2009 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, language: English, abstract: Plated Article Putting up for the night in one of the chiefest towns of Staffordshire, I find it to be by no means a lively town. In fact, it is as dull and dead a town as any one could desire not to see. It seems as if its whole population might be imprisoned in its Railway Station. The Refreshment Room at that Station is a vortex of dissipation compared with the extinct town-inn, the Dodo, in the dull High Street. ...] *** A Poor Man's Tale of a Patent I am not used...