MR. TONY WELLER, when Mr. Pickwick praised the intelligence of his son Samuel, expressed his pleasure at the compliment as something which reflected honor on himself. “I took,” he said, “ a great deal ...
Anyone who has read the Anne of Green Gables series (bear with me, men) might remember the chapter midway through Anne of the Island when Gilbert Blythe first proposes to Anne. It’s terribly exciting ...
SOON after Christmas, in 1835, the perfect project fell into the young Charles Dickens’s lap. To his door in Furnival’s Inn came Mr. Hall, the managing partner of Chapman and Hall, a new publishing ...