The Trial of William Tinkling

By Charles Dickens

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• Language: English
• Publisher: MuhammadUsman
• Release date: Jun 22, 2019
• ISBN: 9788834153413

Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens was born in 1812 and grew up in poverty. This experience influenced ‘Oliver Twist’, the second of his fourteen major novels, which first appeared in 1837. When he died in 1870, he was buried in Poets’ Corner in Westminster Abbey as an indication of his huge popularity as a novelist, which endures to this day.

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The Trial of William Tinkling

CHARLES DICKENS

FOREWORD

The story contained herein was written by Charles Dickens in 1867. It is the first of four stories entitled Holiday Romance and was published originally in a children's magazine in America. It purports to be written by a child aged eight. It was republished in England in All the Year Round in 1868. For this and four other Christmas pieces Dickens received £1,000.

Holiday Romance was published in book form by Messrs Chapman & Hall in 1874, with Edwin Drood and other stories.

For this reprint the text of the story as it appeared in All the Year Round has been followed.

THE TRIAL OF WILLIAM TINKLING

This beginning-part is not made out of anybody's head, you know. It's real. You must believe this beginning-part more than what comes after, else you won't understand how what comes after came to be written. You must believe it all, but you must believe this most, please.