A lonely old gentleman keeps manuscripts in the case of his tall clock and reads them aloud to a small club of friends. Their tales include the giants Gog and Magog talking in the Guildhall and a story of witches at Kingston, and Mr. Pickwick and Sam Weller return for a visit. This weekly was the frame from which The Old Curiosity Shop and Barnaby Rudge grew.
A small curiosity for Dickens readers, showing his short fiction and his experiments with serial form. Download the free EPUB.