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Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings

Charles Dickens

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .aroline downs with her hair my dear, screeches and rushes up-stairs, I following as fast as my trembling legs could bear me, but before I got into the room the dinner-cloth and pink-and-white service all dragged off upon the floor with a crash and the new-married couple on their backs in the firegrate, him with the shovel and tongs and a dish of cucumber across him and a mercy it was summer-time.  “Caroline” I says “be calm,” but she catches off my cap and tears it in her teeth as she passes me, then pounces on the new-married lady makes her a bundle of ribbons takes her by the two ears and knocks the back of her head upon the carpet Murder screaming all the time Policemen running down the street and Wozenham’s windows (judge of my feelings when I came to know it) thrown up and Miss Wozenham calling out from the balcony with crocodile’s tears “It’s Mrs. Lirriper been overcharging somebody to madness—she’ll be murdered&mda. . . Read More

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- Tom - Nov 07, 2023

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Forward by Philip Hensher ✔

Part One: Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings
How Mrs. Lirriper Carried on the Business by Charles Dickens 4⭐
How the First Floor Went to Crowley Castle by Elizabeth Gaskell 3.5⭐
How the Side Room Was Attended by a Doctor by Andrew Halliday 3.25⭐
How the Second Floor Kept a Dog by E

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- Hansen - Oct 11, 2012

"'Mrs Lirriper' isn't completely by Charles Dickens. It's a book of short stories, four of which are by him." I said to my mother yesterday afternoon.
"Really?" she said.
"Mm-hmm. It was actually published as two books - 'Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings' and 'Mrs. Lirriper's Legacy' and then they put them i

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- Paola - Dec 27, 2019

El libro es escrito por Charles Dickens, con la colaboración de 8 escritores.
La historia gira en torno a la Sra. Lirriper (viuda), es una mujer amable que quiere mantener su casa de huéspedes respetablemente. Cuando una de sus inquilinas muere durante el parto, ella y su buen amigo el Mayor deciden

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- Robert - Jun 07, 2019

'Mrs Lirriper' is a collection of connected short stories. The stories were first published in two groups in the Christmas issues of a publication in 1863 and 1864 under the overall titles 'Mrs Lirriper's Lodgings' and 'Mrs Lirriper's Legacy' respectively. The two groups each comprise 7 short storie

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- María - Mar 11, 2019

Un poco decepcionante para tratarse de Dickens. Y es que él apenas está detrás de un par de relatos que conforman el libro, el resto son colaboraciones. Es entretenido pero algunas historias no me acababan de cuajar.

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- Fidelle - Dec 31, 2017

Very sweet, finally a lovable female character

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- LauraT - Feb 17, 2020

Not at his best my dear charlie in short stories. At least not here ...more

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