Project Gutenberg 2004-02-01 Public domain in the USA. 65 Sweetser, Kate Dickinson 1870 1939 Williams, George Alfred 1875 1932 Ten Boys from Dickens Tiny Tim -- Oliver Twist -- Tommy Traddles -- "Deputy" -- Dotheboys Hall -- David Copperfield -- Kit Nubbles -- Jo, the crossing sweeper -- Paul Dombey -- Pip. Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Andrea Ball and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. "Ten Boys from Dickens" by Kate Dickinson Sweetser is a collection of stories crafted for a youthful audience, published in the early 20th century. The book distills the lives of ten boy characters drawn from the works of Charles Dickens, offering readers a glimpse into the trials and adventures they experience before the threshold of manhood. It aims to rekindle interest in Dickens' narrative style and the moral lessons embedded within his writings. The opening of the text provides a preface that outlines the book's intention to celebrate the boyhood experiences depicted in Dickens' novels. It emphasizes the importance Dickens placed on advocating for the welfare of children and exposing societal injustices through the trials faced by his young characters. The preface introduces Tiny Tim from "A Christmas Carol," illustrating his kind-hearted nature and the loving family dynamics amidst their struggles. This section serves as both an introduction to the featured boys and as a tribute to Dickens’ legacy of addressing social issues through the lens of childhood innocence, setting the stage for the stories to unfold. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 -- Characters -- Boys PR Text Browsing: Culture/Civilization/Society Browsing: Literature 408700 407954 2024-09-05T08:02:06.519802 2023-10-05T08:38:02.528571 text/html text/html 406084 2004-02-23T00:51:40 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 372163 2004-02-23T00:52:02 text/html application/zip 445793 2024-09-05T08:02:12.416747 application/epub+zip 449552 2024-09-05T08:02:07.908757 application/epub+zip 206362 2024-09-05T08:02:07.057749 application/epub+zip 606505 2024-09-05T08:02:15.978758 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 578122 2024-09-05T08:02:11.864772 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 335691 2022-09-05T12:14:47.899200 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 364706 364626 2024-09-05T08:02:05.589759 2023-10-05T08:38:01.659567 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 365967 2004-02-23T00:50:06 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 140797 2004-02-23T00:52:00 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 365958 2004-02-23T00:50:28 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 140777 2004-02-23T00:52:00 text/plain application/zip 20499 2024-09-05T08:02:16.125714 application/rdf+xml 11532 2024-09-05T08:02:07.436745 image/jpeg 2987 2024-09-05T08:02:07.254757 image/jpeg 427444 2024-09-05T08:02:06.586742 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia