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RKS Literature: The Guillotine Knitter (Charles Dickens)

“There were many women at the time, upon whom the time laid a dreadfully disfiguring hand; but there was not one among them more to be dreaded than this ruthless woman, now taking her way along the streets. Of a strong and fearless character, of shrewd sense and readiness, of great determination, of that kindContinue reading “RKS Literature: The Guillotine Knitter (Charles Dickens)”

RKS Literature: Why the Aristocrats Heads Rolled in the French Revolution (Charles Dickens)

“We were so robbed by the man that stands there, as all we common dogs are by those Superior beings-taxed by him without mercy, obliged to work for him without pay, obliged to grind our corn at his mill, obliged to feed scores of his tame birds on our wretched crops, and forbidden for ourContinue reading “RKS Literature: Why the Aristocrats Heads Rolled in the French Revolution (Charles Dickens)”

RKS Literature: No Place for a Young Man in a London Bank! (Dickens)

“Cramped in all kinds of dim cupboards at Telleson’s the oldest of men carried on the business gravely. When they took a young man into Telleson’s London house, they hid him somewhere until he was old. They kept him in a dark place, like a cheese, until he had the full Telleson flavour and blueContinue reading “RKS Literature: No Place for a Young Man in a London Bank! (Dickens)”

RKS Literature: France in 1775 (Dickens)

“France, less favoured on the whole as to matters spiritual than her sister of the shield and trident, rolled with exceeding smoothness down the hill, making paper money and spending it. Under the guidance of her Christian pastors, she entertained herself, besides, with such humane achievements as sentencing a youth to have his hands cutContinue reading “RKS Literature: France in 1775 (Dickens)”

RKS Literature: Every Human Being a Profound Secret (Dickens)

“A wonderful fact to reflect on, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other. A solemn consideration, when I enter a great city by night, that every one of those darkly clustered houses encloses its own secret: that every room in every one of them encloses itsContinue reading “RKS Literature: Every Human Being a Profound Secret (Dickens)”