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Somebody's Luggage
Charles Dickens
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Mem.: January 1st, 1857. He went out after dinner, directing luggage to be ready when he called for it. Never called.
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So far from throwing a light upon the subject, this bill appeared to me, if I may so express my doubts, to involv. . . Read More
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The story revolves around a waiter who discovers some luggage left behind and abandoned for six years in the hotel/coffee shop where he works. He pays the landlady the amount of the balance due on the room's surcharges left by the occupant and claims the luggage. He searches through the luggage
'It's a blessed thing to want something, for then you can duly appreciate the favour of having it.'
I was the leader of the Dickensians! discussion of 'Somebody's Luggage', which lasted for two months, so obviously I could say a lot on the subject :)
This is the 1862 Extra Christmas Number of 'All the
"Somebody's Luggage" is a cycle of sharply contrasting stories, connected only by their supposedly having been found in manuscript form in a set of left luggage.
Dickens likes to construct analogies to illustrate his ideas; so do I.
It seems to me that “Somebody’s Luggage” might be compared with Elgar
I got this for a group read, one chapter a week. Unfortunately, the edition I ordered did not have ALL the stories in it and that took away from the continuity & enjoyment of the interconnected stories. Dickens had invited other authors, such as Wilkie Collins, to write 3 of the 7 stories but my edi
Everybody knows that Charles Dickens wrote great stories, and his novels are well loved even now. Some of his shorter works are also immensely popular. Where would we all be without “A Christmas Carol”, for instance? But there are some lesser known stories which nowadays seem to disappoint his admir
Although I love Dickens, and still prefer his novels to that of his short stories, this was one of my favorites. A great little gem about a man at a hotel who finds some lost luggage and upon going through it, finds several stories he then has published. Later, the man returns to find his happiness
I have read all Dicken's 15 novels in the last two years and loved all but The Pickwick Papers.
Dickens is my second favorite novelist after Mark Twain.
In the last couple of months I have read the below five novellas:
1. The Chimes
2. The Cricket on the Hearth
3. The Battle of Life
4. The Haunted Man a