The Lamplighter

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Tom Grig, a lamplighter who had his nativity cast, is the subject of a tale told by the chairman at a gathering of lamplighters in their tavern, the Lamplighters' House of Call. Dickens begins with their argument over whether the almanac makers Murphy and Francis Moore had anything to do with the stars, and describes the lamplighters as a strange, primitive tribe with customs handed down from father to son. This copy is transcribed from the 1905 edition of the Works, volume 28.

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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.

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Author: Charles Dickens
Reading time: About 30 minutes
Pages: 16
Language: English
Genre: British Classics
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