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The Perils of Certain English Prisoners
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This adventure story follows a group of English colonists and soldiers on a fictional island off Central America who face an attack by pirates. Readers interested in Victorian adventure fiction and the works of Charles Dickens may find it of value.
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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