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By the time he died at the relatively young age of 58 from a stroke, he was already Europe’s most famous writer. His obituary noted that Dickens was a “sympathiser with the poor, the suffering, and the oppressed.” Dickens was interred in Westminster Abbey, a rare honor bestowed only among the greatest and most accomplished Britons.
Many of Dickens’ novels were written with the concept of social reform in mind, and Dickens’ work was often praised for its realism, comic genius and unique personalities. At the same time, however, Dickens’ ability as a writer was nearly unrivaled, with his ability to write in prose unquestioned and unmatched.
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Charles Dickens (1812-1870) was one of England's greatest writers. Best known for his classic serialized novels, such as Oliver Twist, A Tale of Two Cities, and Great Expectations, Dickens wrote about the London he lived in, the conditions of the poor, and the growing tensions between the classes. He achieved critical and popular international success in his lifetime and was honored with burial in Westminster Abbey.
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Mugby Junction - Charles Dickens
MUGBY JUNCTION
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Charles Dickens
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Mugby Junction
Chapter I— Barbox Brothers
Chapter II— Barbox Brothers and Co.
Chapter III— The Boy at Mugby
Mugby Junction
By
Charles Dickens
Mugby Junction
Published by Krill Press
New York City, NY
First published 1866
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MUGBY JUNCTION
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CHAPTER I— BARBOX BROTHERS
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Guard! What place is this?
Mugby Junction, sir.
A windy place!
Yes, it mostly is, sir.
And looks comfortless indeed!
Yes, it generally does, sir.
Is it a rainy night still?
Pours, sir.
Open the door. I’ll get out.
You’ll have, sir,
said the guard, glistening with drops of wet, and looking at the tearful face of his watch by the light of his lantern as the traveller descended, three minutes here.
More, I think.— For I am not going on.
Thought you had a through ticket, sir?
So I have, but I shall sacrifice the rest of it. I want my luggage.
Please to come to the van and point it out, sir. Be good enough to look very sharp, sir. Not a moment to spare.
The guard hurried to the luggage van, and the traveller hurried after him. The guard got into it, and the traveller looked into it.
Those two large black portmanteaus in the corner where your light shines. Those are mine.
Name upon ’em, sir?
Barbox Brothers.
Stand clear, sir, if you please. One. Two. Right!
Lamp waved. Signal lights ahead already changing. Shriek from engine. Train gone.
Mugby Junction!
said the traveller, pulling up the woollen muffler round his throat with both hands. At past three o’clock of a tempestuous morning! So!
He spoke to himself. There was no one else to speak to. Perhaps, though there had been any one else to speak to, he would have preferred to speak to himself. Speaking to himself he spoke to a man within five years of fifty either way, who had turned grey too soon, like a neglected fire; a man of pondering habit, brooding carriage of the head, and suppressed internal voice; a man with many indications on him of having been much alone.
He stood unnoticed on the dreary platform, except by the rain and by the wind. Those two vigilant assailants made a rush at him. Very well,
said he, yielding. It signifies nothing to me to what quarter I turn my face.
Thus, at Mugby Junction, at past three o’clock of a tempestuous morning, the traveller went where the weather drove him.
Not but what he could make a stand when he was so minded, for, coming to the end of the roofed shelter (it is of considerable extent at Mugby Junction), and looking out upon the dark night, with a yet darker spirit-wing of storm beating its wild way through it, he faced about, and held his own as ruggedly in the difficult direction as he had held it in the easier one. Thus, with a steady step, the traveller went up and down, up and down, up and down, seeking nothing and finding it.
A place replete with shadowy shapes, this Mugby Junction in the black hours of the four-and-twenty. Mysterious goods trains, covered with palls and gliding on like vast weird funerals, conveying themselves guiltily away from the presence of the few lighted lamps, as if their freight had come to a secret and unlawful end. Half-miles of coal pursuing in a Detective manner, following when they lead, stopping when they stop, backing when they back. Red-hot embers showering out upon the ground, down this dark avenue, and down the other, as if torturing fires were being raked clear; concurrently, shrieks and groans and grinds invading the ear, as if the tortured were at the height of their suffering. Iron-barred cages full of cattle jangling by midway, the drooping beasts with horns entangled, eyes frozen with terror, and mouths too: at least they have long icicles (or what seem so) hanging from their lips. Unknown languages in the air, conspiring in red, green, and white characters. An earthquake, accompanied with thunder and lightning, going up express to London. Now, all quiet, all rusty, wind and rain in possession, lamps extinguished, Mugby Junction dead and indistinct, with its robe drawn over its head, like Caesar.
Now, too, as the belated traveller plodded up and down, a shadowy train went by him in the gloom which was no other than the train of a life. From whatsoever intangible deep cutting or dark tunnel it