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The Pickwick Papers, morning on Rochester Bridge

Author: Charles Dickens Year: 1836 Length: 334 characters Difficulty: medium Public domain

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Bright and pleasant was the sky, balmy the air, and beautiful the appearance of every object around, as Mr. Pickwick leaned over the balustrades of Rochester Bridge, contemplating nature, and waiting for breakfast. The scene was indeed one which might well have charmed a far less reflective mind, than that to which it was presented.

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The Pickwick Papers came out in monthly parts from 1836, when Dickens was twenty four, and the series made his name. Sales of the parts climbed from a few hundred to tens of thousands as the story went on. Rochester and the Medway appear again in his last years of writing. Project Gutenberg carries the complete book.

About this text

The Pickwick Papers came out in monthly parts from 1836, when Dickens was twenty four, and the series made his name. Sales of the parts climbed from a few hundred to tens of thousands as the story went on. Rochester and the Medway appear again in his last years of writing. Project Gutenberg carries the complete book.

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The sentence starts with the adjective rather than the subject, which slows the eye and trains careful reading while typing.

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