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TALES FROM DICKENS

By

HALLIE ERMINIE RIVES

Author of
The Castaway, Hearts Courageous
A Furnace of Earth, etc.

With Illustrations by Reginald B. Birch







[Illustration: David Copperfield and his friend, Mr. Micawber
_See page 112_]



Indianapolis
The Bobbs-Merrill Company
Publishers

Copyright 1905
The Bobbs-Merrill Company
November




To

GEORGE BAKER ROBBINS, JR.




CONTENTS

  CHARLES DICKENS                                              1


  THE OLD CURIOSITY SHOP

     I Little Nell                                            19
    II The Wanderers                                          26
   III The Search                                             35

  OLIVER TWIST

     I How Oliver Came to London and What He Found There      49
    II Oliver's Adventures                                    58
   III How Everything Turned Out Right for Oliver
        in the End                                            65

  BARNABY RUDGE

     I Barnaby's Boyhood                                      77
    II The Mysterious Stranger and Who He Was                 83
   III Barnaby Gets Into Trouble                              89
    IV Barnaby Prospers at Last                               95

  DAVID COPPERFIELD

     I David's Early Ups and Downs                           105
    II Little Em'ly                                          115
   III David and His Child-Wife                              120
    IV David Finds All Well