Fiction Gallery

Charles Dickenss novel, Our Mutual Friend

Charles Dickens's novel, Our Mutual Friend - illustration captioned You never charge me, Miss Wilfer said the secretary, encountering her by chance alone in the great drawing-room, with commissions for home. I shall always be happy to execute any commands you may have in that direction, by J Mahoney. Dickens, British author, 7 February 1812 - 9 June 1870. Our Mutual Friend was his last novel, first published 1864, in installments

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The Veiled Prophet of

The Veiled Prophet of Khorassan - illustration from the book Lalla Rookh by Irish poet and writer Thomas Moore. The heroine (Lalla Rookh) surrounded by dancing handmaidens with tambourines, anklets with bells, and flowers. Caption reads, He sees a group of female forms advance. 28 May 1779 - 25 February 1852. (First published 1817.) 1861 edition with illustrations by John Tenniel

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The Diary of a

The Diary of a Nobody - illustration of a scene from the book by George and Weedon Grossmith, titled I seized her round the waist, and we were silly enough to be executing a wild kind of polka when Sarah entered. Illustration by Weedon Grossmith. From Pan Books edition, 1946. First appeared in the magazine Punch in 1892. GG: English actor and comic writer, 7 December 1847 - 1 March 1912. WG: English writer, 1852 - 1919

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