The Misfortunes of Mr Bradley Headstone: In Which Mr Headstone Makes Known His Intentions

Wednesday, February 16, 2011

In Which Mr Headstone Makes Known His Intentions

Mr Headstone wishes to inform members of the public that in honour of the two hundredth anniversary of the birth of the Inimitable Author, Charles Dickens Esq, he intends to devote the three hundred and sixty six days of the year 2012 to the reading of that gentleman's major works, viz:

The Pickwick Papers
Oliver Twist
Nicholas Nickleby
The Old Curiousity Shop
Barnaby Rudge
Martin Chuzzlewit
The Christmas Books
Dombey and Son
David Copperfield
Bleak House
Hard Times
Little Dorrit
A Tale of Two Cities
Great Expectations
Our Mutual Friend
The Mystery of Edwin Drood

Should he be inclined, Mr Headstone will also peruse sundry stories, sketches, articles and letters that flowed from the nib of Mr Dickens's productive pen.

from Our Mutual Friend

'Sir, my name is Bradley Headstone.'

'As you justly said, my good sir, your name cannot concern me. Now, what more?'

'This more. Oh, what a misfortune is mine,' cried Bradley, breaking off to wipe the perspiration from his face as he shook from head to foot, 'that I cannot so control myself as to appear a stronger creature than this, when a man who has not felt in all his life what I have felt in a day can so command himself!' He said it in a very agony, and even followed it with an errant motion of his hands, as if he could have torn himself.

Mr Charles Dickens

Wednesday, February 16, 2011

In Which Mr Headstone Makes Known His Intentions