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A Message from the Sea

Charles Dickens

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .other (and you’re very like her) that it didn’t signify where I was born, except that I was raised on question-asking ground, where the babies as soon as ever they come into the world, inquire of their mothers, ‘Neow, how old may you be, and wa’at air you a goin’ to name me?’—which is a fact.”  Here he slapped his leg.  “Such being the case, I may be excused for asking you if your name’s Alfred?”

“Yes, sir, my name is Alfred,” returned the young man.

“I am not a conjurer,” pursued the captain, “and don’t think me so, or I shall right soon undeceive you.  Likewise don’t think, if you please, though I do come from that country of the babies, that I am asking questions for question-asking’s sake, for I am not.  Somebody belonging to you went to sea?”

“My elder brother, Hugh,” returned the young man.  He said it in. . . Read More

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- Jason - Nov 27, 2012

This was one of the more enjoyable of Dicken's collaborative works (in this case written with Wilkie Collins, Robert Buchanan, Charles Allston Collins, Amelia Edwards and Harriet Parr). A Message from the Sea is a single integrated novella that tells a nautical adventure story combined with a family

5.00
- Bionic Jean - Feb 14, 2023

Let’s put the record straight. A Message from the Sea is decidedly not a short story. Nor, at 300 pages, is it a novella, but more the length of a novel. In fact it is a collaborative integrated work, with a central character, whose actions we follow from the very beginning, through the middle and r

4.00
- Sue - Aug 15, 2021

I enjoyed this quite a bit. Apparently this was written by Wilkie Collins,,,I will have to read some more of his works-books and stories. This is a long story about a sea captain returned to England with a strange report. Well written, descriptive, mysterious. I’m sure that the Victorian readers mus

4.00
- midnightfaerie - Feb 17, 2021

A Message From the Sea was included in my Dickens Christmas Stories tome. Can anyone tell me why this might be included in a book called Christmas Stories?!? Ok, other than that, and of course the fact that chapters 3 and 4 were missing because they were written by someone else, this story is good.

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