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Chapters 14-16: Chapter 14. Paul grows more and more old-fashioned, and goes home for the holidays -- Chapter 15. Amazing artfulness of Captain Cuttle, and a new pursuit for Walter Gay -- Chapter 16. What the waves were always saying

A review of Dombey and Son by John Forster in the Literary Examiner, 28 Oct. 1848.

Cover page to William Makepeace Thackeray's serialized novel, Vanity Fair, published as a whole in 1848.

"The scene is fairly certainly identifiable as Maidenhead railway bridge, across the Thames between Taplow and Maidenhead. The bridge, which was begun on Brunel's design in 1837 and finished in 1839, has two main arches of brick, very wide and flat.…

Title page to the 1850 joint publication of Wuthering Heights and Agnes Grey, by Ellis and Acton Bell. A New Edition Revised, with a Biographical Notice of the Authors, a Selection from their Literary Remains, and a Preface, by Currer Bell.

A map of North London, showing key places Dickens frequented as a child and an adult. He used many of these places in his novels.

"Some of the little books made and written by the Brontë children. Only examples of Charlotte's and Branwell's have come to light. The books average a mere two inches in height and one and a half inches in width. They are written in almost…

Sketch by Dickens' illustrator, Phiz, of Mrs. Tox introducing Polly Toodle (Paul's nurse-to-be) and her family to Mr. Dombey.

Book cover to 2004 Penguin Books edition of William Makepeace Thackeray's Vanity Fair, to advertise the 2004 film adaptation directed by Mira Nair

Sketch by William Makepeace Thackeray called "Railroad Speculators," appearing in Punch in 1845, with text: "How many hundred shares have you wrote for?"