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    The Signal-Man
    The Signal-Man
    The Signal-Man
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    The Signal-Man

    By Charles Dickens

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    The Signal-Man by Charles Dickens is a first-person horror/mystery story by Charles Dickens, first published as part of the Mugby Junction collection in the 1866 Christmas edition of All the Year Round.
    The railway signal-man of the title tells the narrator of an apparition that has been haunting him. Each spectral appearance precedes a tragic even
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMemorable Classics Books
    Release dateSep 7, 2023
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    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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