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David Copperfield, the flats near Yarmouth

Author: Charles Dickens Year: 1850 Length: 347 characters Difficulty: easy Public domain

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It looked rather spongy and soppy, I thought, as I carried my eye over the great dull waste that lay across the river; and I could not help wondering, if the world were really as round as my geography book said, how any part of it came to be so flat. But I reflected that Yarmouth might be situated at one of the poles; which would account for it.

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David Copperfield appeared in twenty monthly parts between 1849 and 1850 and Dickens called it his favourite among his own books. He knew the Norfolk coast at first hand and thought Yarmouth one of the strangest places he had seen. The novel is written in the first person, which was new for him at that scale. Project Gutenberg carries the complete text.

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David Copperfield appeared in twenty monthly parts between 1849 and 1850 and Dickens called it his favourite among his own books. He knew the Norfolk coast at first hand and thought Yarmouth one of the strangest places he had seen. The novel is written in the first person, which was new for him at that scale. Project Gutenberg carries the complete text.

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A single winding sentence with semicolons inside it, good for learning to keep going past punctuation instead of stopping.

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