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Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings

Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings

Dickens, Charles

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FantasyGeneral FictionHistorical Fiction

ISBN10: 1419135791
ISBN13: 9781419135798
Publisher: Kessinger Pub Llc
Published: Jun 17 2004
Pages: 48
Weight: 0.26
Height: 0.18 Width: 7.60 Depth: 9.22
Language: English
Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings is a novella written by Charles Dickens, first published in 1863. The story is narrated by Mrs. Lirriper, a kind-hearted and gossipy landlady who runs a boarding house in London. The book is divided into two parts, with the first part focusing on the various eccentric and often troubled tenants who reside in Mrs. Lirriper's lodgings. These include a young couple with marital problems, a retired captain who is haunted by his past, and a mysterious stranger who keeps to himself.In the second part of the book, Mrs. Lirriper becomes embroiled in a family drama involving her estranged nephew, Tom, and his troubled wife, Bertha. As she tries to help the couple reconcile, Mrs. Lirriper uncovers a web of deceit and betrayal that threatens to tear the family apart.Throughout the novella, Dickens explores themes of family, love, and redemption, and portrays the lives of ordinary people struggling to make ends meet in Victorian London. Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings is a charming and heartwarming tale that showcases Dickens' skill as a storyteller and his deep empathy for the human condition.Whoever would begin to be worried with letting Lodgings that wasn't a lone woman with a living to get is a thing inconceivable to me, my dear; excuse the familiarity, but it comes natural to me in my own little room, when wishing to open my mind to those that I can trust, and I should be truly thankful if they were all mankind, but such is not so, for have but a Furnished bill in the window and your watch on the mantelpiece.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

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