The Haunted House Paperback
by Dickens Charles Dickens
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The story appeared in the Extra Christmas Number on 13 December 1859.
Dickens began a tradition of Christmas publications with A Christmas Carol in 1843 and his Christmas stories soon became a national institution.
The Haunted House was his 1859 offering.In Dickens's opening story, The Mortals in the House, the narrator's ("John") health "required a temporary residence in the country." Knowing this, a friend of the narrator had chanced to drive by the house--situated close to a railroad stop mid-way between Northern England and London--and had written to the narrator suggesting he travel down from the North and look the place over.
It was a large mid-eighteenth-century manor house on two square acres with a "sadly neglected garden," recently cheaply repaired, and "much too closely and heavily shadowed by trees." The house itself is "stiff . . . cold . . . [and] formal" and "in as bad taste, as could possibly be desired by the most loyal admirer of the whole quartet of [King] Georges." It was "ill-placed, ill-built, ill-planned, and ill-fitted." It was "damp . . . not free from dry rot" and redolent with the "flavour of rats."
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- Pages:62 pages
- Publisher:Independently published
- Publication Date:31/12/2019
- ISBN:9781673692440
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- Format:Paperback
- Pages:62 pages
- Publisher:Independently published
- Publication Date:31/12/2019
- ISBN:9781673692440
