To Be Read at Dusk
Short story by Charles Dickens
To Be Read at Dusk (1852) is a short story written by Charles Dickens,[1] and was first published in Heath's Keepsake.[2][3]
Summary
Five couriers talking amongst themselves outside a convent on the summit of the Great St Bernard Pass are overheard by the narrator as two of their group's members relate short ghost stories; one of a woman who abandons her husband for a man who had previously appeared in her nightmares, and another of a man who sees an apparition of his brother, and is thereby warned of the latter's death.
References
- ^ "To be Read at Dusk, by Charles Dickens". www.gutenberg.org. Retrieved 22 February 2018.
- ^ Ruth Glancy’s “To Be Read at Dusk,” The Dickensian 83.1 (1987): 40-7.
- ^ Kimberley, Jackson (1 June 2009). "Dangerous Similitude in Charles Dickens' "To Be Read at Dusk"". Journal of the Short Story in English. Les Cahiers de la nouvelle (52). Retrieved 22 February 2018.
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