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Mugby Junction by Charles Dickens
Hardback: 132 pages
Publisher: Hesperus Press (2006)
ISBN: 1-84391-129-9
Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,611,951 in Books
Source: Contra Costa County Library
About this book, Amazon.com wrote:
‘Compiled by Charles Dickens, Mugby Junction is an intriguing composite of tales. Published here for the first time in its entirety, it contains one of Dickens’ most celebrated ghost tales, The Signalman, as well as short stories by Charles Collins, Hesbah Stretton, Andrew Halliday, and Amelia Edwards. Arriving at Mugby Junction in an attempt to escape his unhappy past, Barbox Brothers befriends a workman and his invalid daughter. With their help, he sets his sights on discovering which of the seven lines of the junction will most aid him in his journey of escape. In exploring one such line, he meets “the woman he had lost,” only to return to Mugby Junction once this has played out. Staying there, and continuing his friendship with the workman and his daughter, he collects the myriad stories he hears tell of at the junction.‘
—Amazon.com
I have to admit that other than Great Expectations in high school, I haven’t read mcuh of Dickens, just snippets. Oh, and the quintessential A Christmas Carol. ★
• 206 Words written by Steve @ 11:22 | 28-Sep-06 in Reading •