Reprinted Pieces

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Reprinted Pieces has a contents list that includes The Long Voyage, The Begging-letter Writer, A Child’s Dream of a Star, Our English Watering-place and Our French Watering-place. The contents also list The Detective Police, On Duty with Inspector Field, Our School, Our Vestry and Our Bore. The piece headed THE LONG VOYAGE has a speaker who loves to sit by the fire, thinking of what has been read in books, when the wind is blowing and the sleet or rain is driving against the dark windows.

The text speaks of a voyager unexpectedly summoned from home, who travelled a vast distance, and could never return. The text says that, just at dusk, Inspectors Wield and Stalker are announced, and that Inspector Wield presents Inspector Stalker. The text describes Inspector Wield as a middle-aged man of a portly presence, with a large, moist, knowing eye and a husky voice.

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Charles Dickens

Charles John Huffam Dickens was an English writer and journalist. He created some of literature's best-known fictional characters, and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime and, by the 20th century, critics and scholars had recognised him as a literary genius.