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A short story by Charles Dickens Find!

A short story by Charles Dickens, George Silverman's Explanation is fairly difficult to obtain as a hard copy but is available to read from various online sources.  It is based around Hoghton Tower which Dicken's visited whilst in Lancashire.

Reading Detectives team member wrote this:

 Excellent, truly excellent!  Not simple a plot, but an exploration of the human mind and the worlds unkindness to the main innocent character, George.

 He is rescued as a child from a cellar in Preston then moved to a farmhouse on the grounds of Hoghton Tower.  He can neither escape nor forget his time in the cellar in Preston and is marked by his solitude at Hoghton Tower.  There is love and romance but these are thwarted, leaving only a reasonably happy ending.

After reading Dickens' grim, Lancashire classic, Hard Times, I felt uplifted reading this short story.

28 September 2009 from Stephen Miller

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