Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 30127-h.htm or 30127-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/30127/30127-h/30127-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/30127/30127-h.zip) TALES FROM DICKENS By HALLIE ERMINIE RIVES Author of The Castaway, Hearts Courageous A Furnace of Earth, etc. With Illustrations by Reginald B. Birch [Illustration: David Copperfield and his friend, Mr. Micawber _See page 112_] Indianapolis The Bobbs-Merrill Company Publishers Copyright 1905 The Bobbs-Merrill Company November To GEORGE BAKER ROBBINS, JR. CONTENTS CHARLES DICKENS 1 THE OLD CURIOSITY SHOP I Little Nell 19 II The Wanderers 26 III The Search 35 OLIVER TWIST I How Oliver Came to London and What He Found There 49 II Oliver's Adventures 58 III How Everything Turned Out Right for Oliver in the End 65 BARNABY RUDGE I Barnaby's Boyhood 77 II The Mysterious Stranger and Who He Was 83 III Barnaby Gets Into Trouble 89 IV Barnaby Prospers at Last 95 DAVID COPPERFIELD I David's Early Ups and Downs 105 II Little Em'ly 115 III David and His Child-Wife 120 IV David Finds All Well at Last 124 GREAT EXPECTATIONS I Pip and the Convict 131 II The Queer Miss Havisham 138 III Pip Discovers His Benefactor 147 IV Pip Comes to Himself 152 NICHOLAS NICKLEBY I Nicholas at Dotheboys Hall 161 II Nicholas Becomes an Actor 167 III Nicholas Comes to Kate's Rescue 171 IV What Happened to Everybody 175 DOMBEY AND SON I Little Paul 183 II How Florence Lost Her Father 191 III How Florence Reached a Refuge 199 IV How Florence Found Her Father at Last 203 THE PICKWICK PAPERS