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The Lamplighter
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The Lamplighter is a comic short story by Charles Dickens, adapted from his earlier farce, following a lamplighter drawn into the schemes of an eccentric astrologer. It suits readers interested in Dickens's lighter, humorous fiction and in nineteenth-century English literature.
Charles Dickens
Charles John Huffam Dickens was an English writer and journalist. He created some of literature's best-known fictional characters, and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime and, by the 20th century, critics and scholars had recognised him as a literary genius. His novels and short stories are widely read today.
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