Charles Dickens

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• tcx · Nov 7, 2017 · Recommends

  …are trapped in a well Margaret Atwood - "The handmaid's tale" Khaled Hosseini - "The kite runner" Agatha Christie - "The murder of Roger Ackroyd" (very surprising plot) Andy Weir - "The Martian" Charles Dickens - "David Copperfield" Clare Mackintosh - "I let you go" Carlos Ruiz Zafón - "The Shadow of the Wind" M.R. Carey - "The girl with all the gifts"

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• dontknowmuch · Nov 28, 2024 · Recommends

  Either David Copperfield by Charles Dickens or Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry. Both are very long novels that get better and better with every page.

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• shawndumas · Dec 21, 2010 · Recommends

  32. David Copperfield – Charles Dickens

• cantrevealname · Oct 14, 2014 · Mentions

  …statement? It's impossible to read in a leisurely manner for me as well. But I do have good news: Far fewer writers do this than in the past. Here's a sentence from the first page of "David Copperfield" by Charles Dickens: In consideration of the day and hour of my birth, it was declared by the nurse, and by some sage women in the neighbourhood who had taken a lively interest in me several months before there was any…

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• DonaldFisk · Nov 28, 2021 · Mentions

  …Genesis 11.16: And Eber lived four and thirty years, and begat Peleg ... Genesis 11.12: And Arphaxad lived five and thirty years ... What about more recently? In David Copperfield (1850) by Charles Dickens, we still find: About five-and-twenty boys were studiously engaged at their books when we went in ..." ‘Six-and-thirty years ago, this day, my dear,’ said my aunt, as we walked back to the chariot,…

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• robin_reala · May 26, 2018 · Mentions

  …Jane Austen: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/jane-austen/pride-and-prej... - Vanity Fair by William Thackeray: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/william-makepeace-thackera... - David Copperfield by Charles Dickens: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/charles-dickens/david-copp... - Washington Irving collection: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/washington-irving/the-sket... - Father Goriot by Balzac: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/honore-de-balzac/father-go...…

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• jaimebuelta · Nov 10, 2022 · Mentions

  From David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen and six , result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery

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• paulhart · Jul 12, 2009 · Mentions

  …1% available. "Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery." -- Charles Dickens, 'David Copperfield'

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• nchelluri · Jan 8, 2016 · Mentions

  …twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen [pounds] nineteen [shillings] and six [pence], result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery." - Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

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• revolvingocelot · Oct 18, 2021 · Mentions

  …income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds nought and six, result misery."[0] [0] David Copperfield, Charles Dickens

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• whatusername · Jun 30, 2010 · Mentions

  Wilkins Micawber -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilkins_Micawber (A character in Charles Dickens' novel David Copperfield) "Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen pounds nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and…

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• ghshephard · Nov 19, 2012 · Mentions

  …typically treated as a perpetual bond. ... Given their long history, references to Consols can be found in many places, including literature such as Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, David Copperfield by Charles Dickens, Howards End by E. M. Forster, Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray, Of Human Bondage by William Somerset Maugham and The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy and in economics."

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• onion2k · Aug 27, 2014 · Mentions

  …income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen pounds nineteen shillings and six pence, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds and six pence, result misery." Charles Dickens, in "David Copperfield", published in 1850. The notion of living within your means is not a new one. It's something that ought to be taught all the way through school. It's that important.

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• tominous · Sep 25, 2016 · Mentions

  …annual expenditure nineteen pounds nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds nought and six, result misery." -- Micawber (from David Copperfield, Charles Dickens, 1850)

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• nradov · Jan 11, 2019 · Mentions

  “Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.” ― Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

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