Mrs. Lirriper's Legacy and Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings: Two Stories by Charles Dickens [Paperback]

Charles Dickens (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 19, 2003

Whoever would begin to be worried with letting Lodgings that wasn't a lone woman with a living to get is a thing inconceivable to me, my dear; excuse the familiarity, but it comes natural to me in my own little room, when wishing to open my mind to those that I can trust, and I should be truly thankful if they were all mankind, but such is not so, for have but a Furnished bill in the window and your watch on the mantelpiece, and farewell to it if you turn your back for but a second, however gentlemanly the manners; nor is being of your own sex any safeguard, as I have reason, in the form of sugar-tongs to know, for that lady (and a fine woman she was) got me to run for a glass of water, on the plea of going to be confined, which certainly turned out true, but it was in the Station-house.

--This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 112 pages
• Publisher: Fredonia Classics (March 19, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1410101908
• ISBN-13: 978-1410101907
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 5.1 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,535,022 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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This review is from: Mrs. Lirriper's Legacy and Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings: Two Stories by Charles Dickens (Paperback)

Keeping up lodgings in London is not an easy job, as Mrs. Lirriper will tell you! It is an interesting one, however, full of servants who can't keep their faces clean, guests who steal your belongings and callous men who leave behind their jilted lovers. For Mrs. Lirriper, it's also one that provides her with a sweet little grandson and a dashing companion with whom she faces a variety of exciting adventures, from setting up the United Grand Junction Lirriper and Jackman Great Norfolk Parlour Line to saving the local taxman from a huge conglomeration and traveling to France in search of a legacy. Though she has a tendency to ramble (and to omit her punctuation), Mrs. Lirriper's amusing accounts of her life as a landlady make for some entertaining and enjoyable reading!