In which of Dickens' novels does 'Jerry Cruncher' appear?
"the fishmonger's, near Water-Lane in Fleet-Street'"". Samuel Richardson, author of ""Pamela"", lived close by in Salisbury Court in the 18th century, and ran his printing business from two buildings in the alley. In the 19th century, it appears in Dickens' ""A Tale of Two Cities"" as the home of Jerry Cruncher – a porter who moonlighted as a resurrection man., and in his ""Bleak House"", Chapter 27, ""More Old Soldiers Than One"". Hanging Sword Alley Hanging Sword Alley is an alley in the Alsatia district of London, running between Whitefriars Street and Salisbury Square, close to Fleet Street. The alley"
"recalling to life was to come into fashion, Jerry!"" The black humour of this statement becomes obvious only much later on. Five years later, one cloudy and very dark night (in June 1780), Mr. Lorry reawakens the reader's interest in the mystery by telling Jerry it is ""Almost a night ... to bring the dead out of their graves"". Jerry responds firmly that he has never seen the night do that. It turns out that Jerry Cruncher's involvement with the theme of resurrection is that he is what the Victorians called a ""Resurrection Man"", one who (illegally) digs up dead"
"him with a target weight. If Dick strays from this goal, then his wife's right little finger will be cut off. Morrison exercises and keeps in shape, and gives the business card to a barfly, echoing the start of the story. The story ends when Dick and Cindy meet the McCanns, and Dick realizes Jimmy's wife is missing her little finger. Quitters, Inc. ""Quitters, Inc."" is a short story by Stephen King, first published in King's 1978 collection ""Night Shift"". Richard ""Dick"" Morrison, a middle-aged smoker, is at John F. Kennedy International Airport when he runs into Jimmy McCann, his"
"David Copperfield David Copperfield is the eighth novel by Charles Dickens. The novel's full title is The Personal History, Adventures, Experience and Observation of David Copperfield the Younger of Blunderstone Rookery (Which He Never Meant to Publish on Any Account). It was first published as a serial in 1849–50, and as a book in 1850. The novel features the character David Copperfield, and is written in the first person, as a description of his life until middle age, with his own adventures and the numerous friends and enemies he meets along his way. It is his journey from being an"
"Courier"". He later joined the staff of the celebrated satirical journal ""Punch"", having contributed previously to two of its rivals, ""The Man In The Moon"" and ""The Puppet Show"". He developed a reputation as a humourist, including for his satires ""The Comic Bradshaw"" and ""The Natural History of Humbugs"". Reach's novel, originally serialised as ""Clement Lorimer, or, The Book with the Iron Clasps"", ran in monthly instalments through 1848–9, before being collected in a single volume and later republished in two parts as ""Leonard Lindsay, or, The Story of a Buccaneer"". The work, a crime thriller set in the world"
"1844 Alexandre Dumas, père published a novel ""The Three Musketeers"" (""Les Trois Mousquetaires"") and wrote ""The Count of Monte Cristo"" which was published in installments over the next two years. William Makepeace Thackeray published ""The Luck of Barry Lyndon"". In Britain Charles Dickens published several of his books in installments in magazines: ""The Pickwick Papers"", followed, in the next few years, by ""Oliver Twist"" (1837–1839), ""Nicholas Nickleby"" (1838–1839), ""The Old Curiosity Shop"" (1840–1841), ""Barnaby Rudge"" (1841), ""A Christmas Carol"" (1843) and ""Martin Chuzzlewit"" (1843–1844). In America a version of the penny dreadful became popularly known as a ""dime novel"". In"
"Jarndyce and Jarndyce Jarndyce and Jarndyce (or Jarndyce v Jarndyce) is a fictional court case in ""Bleak House"" (1852-3) by Charles Dickens, progressing in the English Court of Chancery. The case is a central plot device in the novel and has become a byword for seemingly interminable legal proceedings. Dickens refers to the case as ""Jarndyce and Jarndyce"", the way it would be spoken of. The ""v"" in the case title is an abbreviation of the Latin ""versus"", but is normally pronounced ""and"" for civil cases in England and Wales. ""Jarndyce v Jarndyce"" concerns the fate of a large inheritance."
"Drood"" by Leon Garfield (1980), ""The Decoding of Edwin Drood"" (1980) by Charles Forsyte and ""The Mystery of Edwin Drood"" by David Madden (2011). There was also a humorous continuation by the Italian duo Fruttero & Lucentini entitled ""The D Case"". In 2015, the UK newspaper ""The Daily Mail"" and the University of Buckingham asked the public for their solution to the mystery. Out of 15,000 responses, the overwhelming verdict was that Jasper killed his own nephew and stashed his body in the church crypt, the same solution proposed by Dickens' friends and family. In January 1914 the Dickens Fellowship"
"refers to the Dick short story when its two stars, Jude Law and Jennifer Jason Leigh, consume fast food from containers marked ""Perky Pat's"". In the movie ""Screamers"", Peter Weller's character refers to someone sarcastically as a real ""Perky Pat"". Elements of the story were later incorporated into Dick's 1965 novel, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, which referenced a model-and-drug induced Perky Pat game. The Days of Perky Pat ""The Days of Perky Pat"" is a science fiction short story by American writer Philip K. Dick, first published in 1963 in ""Amazing"" magazine. In this story, survivors of a"
"of text and two illustrations by Hablot Knight Browne (""Phiz""), with the last being a double-number: ""David Copperfield"" has been filmed on several occasions: Online editions Adaptations David Copperfield David Copperfield is the eighth novel by Charles Dickens. The novel's full title is The Personal History, Adventures, Experience and Observation of David Copperfield the Younger of Blunderstone Rookery (Which He Never Meant to Publish on Any Account). It was first published as a serial in 1849–50, and as a book in 1850. The novel features the character David Copperfield, and is written in the first person, as a description of"
"good character and 'the respect of the neighborhood,' there is not a living to be got out of the broom."" The occupation of crossing sweeper received perhaps its most famous literary treatment in Charles Dickens' novel ""Bleak House"" with the character of Jo, a homeless boy who ""fights it out at his crossing among the mud and wheels, the horses, whips, and umbrellas, and gets but a scanty sum..."" Jo has been characterized as ""one of the most significant figures"" in the novel and as a way for Dickens to address juvenile vagrancy, which was seen as a serious social"
"Alfred Jingle Alfred Jingle is a fictional character who appears in the novel ""The Pickwick Papers"" by Charles Dickens. He is a strolling actor and an engaging charlatan and trickster noted for his bizarre anecdotes and distinctive mangling of English syntax. He first appears in chapter two of the novel and accompanies the Pickwickians on their first coach journey. As they leave the Golden Cross Inn at Charing Cross, Jingle holds forth in characteristic mode on the dangers of decapitation as illustrated by low archways and the example of King Charles I, beheaded at nearby Whitehall Palace: ""Heads, heads -"
"recognisable as very similar to a famous Briton. It is possible that Pratchett intends Blackbury Cemetery to be ""nearly Highgate"", especially as one of the most prominent ghosts (William Stickers) is described as ""The man who would have invented communism if Karl Marx hadn't."" Johnny and the Dead Johnny and the Dead (1993) is the second novel by Terry Pratchett to feature the character Johnny Maxwell. The other novels in the ""Johnny Maxwell Trilogy"" are ""Only You Can Save Mankind"" (1992) and ""Johnny and the Bomb"" (1996). In this story, Johnny sees and speaks with the spirits (they object to"
"Rudy Wiebe. In recent decades, Francis Dickens has been depicted as a comic figure. In ""W.G. Grace's Last Case"" (1984), by William Rushton, in a fantastic plot that includes fictional characters like Jekyll and Hyde and Dr. Watson, Francis Dickens encounters Apache Indians and (anachronistically) meets the famed cricketer of the title during the latter's team's 1872 North American tour. Francis Dickens later was the subject of a comic novel by humorist Eric Nicol, ""Dickens of the Mounted"" (1989). The book is a series of fictional letters, a mock document purporting to be a record of Dickens's correspondence spanning his"
"events of Oliver Twist, Dodger has returned to England a changed man from his time in Australia, and is planning a heist. However he cannot escape the 'ghost' of Fagin, who still guides his actions, even past the grave. In Terry Pratchett's 2012 novel ""Dodger"", the title character bears certain similarities to the Dickens character. The sampler of the book also includes him meeting an astute gentleman who concerns himself with the well-being of the poor called Charlie Dickens. A 2014 novel by Peter David, ""Artful"", features the Artful Dodger as the main character, and depicts his life following the"
"The Skeleton in the Clock The Skeleton in the Clock is a 1948 mystery novel by the American writer John Dickson Carr (1906–1977), who published it under the name of Carter Dickson. It is a whodunnit and features the series detective Sir Henry Merrivale and his long-time associate, Scotland Yard's Chief Inspector Humphrey Masters. Martin Drake meets Jennifer West in an auction house. Three years ago, he had fallen in love with her during a brief but intense encounter on a railway platform—after which she vanished. Now it seems she is engaged to Richard Fleet, whom she has known since"
"Clockers (novel) Clockers is a 1992 novel by American author Richard Price. The book takes place in the fictitious city of Dempsey (based on Newark and Jersey City) in North Jersey. It centers on the workings of a local drug gang and the dynamics between the drug dealers, the police and the community. Clockers follows intertwining storylines of low level cocaine dealer Ronald ""Strike"" Dunham and homicide detective Rocco Klein in the fictional New Jersey city of Dempsey (Which shares many similarities with Jersey City, NJ - where author Richard Price spent extensive time researching the subject matter.) Strike works"
"in what might be a haunted prison, Sir Henry takes a hand and reveals not only the identity of the murderer but the unusual psychology that underlies the case. The Skeleton in the Clock The Skeleton in the Clock is a 1948 mystery novel by the American writer John Dickson Carr (1906–1977), who published it under the name of Carter Dickson. It is a whodunnit and features the series detective Sir Henry Merrivale and his long-time associate, Scotland Yard's Chief Inspector Humphrey Masters. Martin Drake meets Jennifer West in an auction house. Three years ago, he had fallen in love"
"premonition of the signalman's own death. Another story features, in a thinly disguised form, the town of Rugby in Warwickshire and the town's railway station. One of the stories satirizes the refreshment rooms where Dickens was humiliated by the proprietess when he was ordering a cup of coffee. She refused to pass him the sugar bowl until she had been paid, clearly not recognising the celebrity author. Mugby Junction ""Mugby Junction"" is a set of short stories written in 1866 by Charles Dickens and collaborators Charles Collins, Amelia B. Edwards, Andrew Halliday, and Hesba Stretton. It was first published in"
"misers that Mr Boffin ennumerates. He is coupled with the banker Jemmy Wood of Gloucester, a more recent miser about whom Dickens later wrote an article in his magazine All The Year Round. Others include John Little (who appears in Merryweather), Reverend Mr Jones of Blewbury (also in Merryweather) and Dick Jarrel, whose surname was really Jarrett and an account of whom appeared in the Annual Register for 1806. The many volumes of this publication also figured among Mr Boffin's purchases. Two more of the misers mentioned made their way into other literary works. John Hopkins, known as Vulture Hopkins,"
"stark contrast in morality with the Jago culture. Jerry Gullen's Canary In a novel where human beings are regularly compared to vermin, Jerry Gullen's donkey provides Dicky with an unusual father-figure, a dumb creature whom he seeks out and can confide in. The donkey's neglect is illustrative of the disregard for children and animals in the Jago. Poverty The Jago is a seriously deprived area in which hardly anyone has honest employment or any prospect of it. Existence is solely about survival on a day-to-day basis. Money is squandered in gambling or on drink and tobacco, and children go unfed."
"domestic setting for his hero's redemption. The book was released on 20 December 1845 (the title page read ""1846"") and sold briskly into the New Year. Seventeen stage productions opened during the Christmas season 1845 with one production receiving Dickens's approval and opening on the same day as the book's release. Dickens read the tale four times in public performance. It has been dramatised in numerous languages and for years was more popular on stage than ""A Christmas Carol"". ""Cricket"" is less explicitly Christian than some of Dickens's other Christmas books, and it has been criticised for its sentimentality, but"
"Francis Dickens Francis Jeffrey Dickens (15 January 1844 – 11 June 1886) was the third son and fifth child of Victorian English novelist Charles Dickens and his wife Catherine Dickens née Hogarth. Francis Dickens was nicknamed ""Chickenstalker"" by his father after the character Mrs. Chickenstalker in the Christmas book ""The Chimes"" that he was writing at the time of Francis's birth; however he came to be called Frank by those who knew him. He was born in England and went to school in Germany to train to become a doctor. Giving up this ambition, he obtained a commission in the"
"rewarded with a large portion of the treasure hidden in the cave and eventually returns to Scotland a rich man. Prester John (novel) Prester John is a 1910 adventure novel by John Buchan. It tells the story of a young Scotsman named David Crawfurd and his adventures in South Africa, where a Zulu uprising is tied to the medieval legend of Prester John. Crawfurd is similar in many ways to Buchan's later character, Richard Hannay. The setting is contemporaneous with publication: the beginning of the twentieth century. Crawfurd grows up in Kirkcaple, by the North Sea, where he first encounters"
"in 2014, and cast an actor with Down's Syndrome, Daniel Laurie, in the title role. Online editions Commentary Barnaby Rudge Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of Eighty (commonly known as Barnaby Rudge) is a historical novel by British novelist Charles Dickens. ""Barnaby Rudge"" was one of two novels (the other was ""The Old Curiosity Shop"") that Dickens published in his short-lived (1840–1841) weekly serial ""Master Humphrey's Clock"". ""Barnaby Rudge"" is largely set during the Gordon Riots of 1780. ""Barnaby Rudge"" was the fifth of Dickens' novels to be published. It had originally been planned to appear as his"
"in 1834, which features Dick Turpin as its leading character. In 1839 he published another novel featuring a highwayman, ""Jack Sheppard"". From 1840 to 1842 he edited ""Bentley's Miscellany"", from 1842 to 1853, ""Ainsworth's Magazine"" and subsequently ""The New Monthly Magazine"". His Lancashire novels cover altogether 400 years and include ""The Lancashire Witches"", 1848, ""Mervyn Clitheroe"", 1857, and ""The Leaguer of Lathom"". ""Jack Sheppard"", ""Guy Fawkes"", 1841, ""Old St Paul's"", 1841, ""Windsor Castle"", 1843, and ""The Lancashire Witches"" are regarded as his most successful novels. He was very popular in his lifetime and his novels sold in large numbers, but"
"cities. Francis Dickens is a character in Matthew Pearl's 2009 novel, ""The Last Dickens"". Dickens also appears in Bill Gallaher's ""The Frog Lake Massacre"" (2008). ""The Diary of Francis Dickens"", edited by Vernon LaChance, Kingston Jackson Press, 1930 ""Francis Jeffrey Dickens"", The Canadian Encyclopedia, (entry by John Evans) Eric Nicol, ""Dickens of the Mounted: The Astounding Long-lost Letters of Inspector F. Dickens NWMP 1874–1886."" (1989) McClelland & Stewart ""Francis J. Dickens, An Ordinary Officer"", ""Beaver"" Vol.78, No.3 June/July 1998 David J. Carter ""Inspector F.J. Dickens: ""The Christmas Carol baby"""" (1998) Francis Dickens Francis Jeffrey Dickens (15 January 1844 – 11"
"on,'"" a member of ""a nation that fails to recognize him as one of its citizens."" Jo was a popular character among readers of the novel which no doubt in part led to the production of a stage adaptation entitled ""Bleak House; or Poor 'Jo. A drama in four acts"". A real fourteen-year-old youth named George Ruby who was called to testify at the Guildhall in 1850 is often thought to have been Dickens' inspiration for Jo (who, in the novel, was called to testify before an inquest). While not disagreeing with that assessment, Edwin M. Eigner and Joseph I."
"For example, in his novel ""Bleak House"" Dickens mocks Mrs. Jellyby, who neglects her children for the natives of a fictional African country. The disjunction between Dickens' criticism of slavery and his crude caricatures of other races has also been noted by Patrick Brantlinger in his ""A Companion to the Victorian Novel"". He cites Dickens' description of an Irish colony in America's Catskill mountains a mess of pigs, pots, and dunghills. Dickens views them as a ""racially repellent"" group. Jane Smiley writing in the Penguin Lives bio of Dickens writes ""we should not interpret him as the kind of left-liberal"
"Jest"" has James Incandenza as an alcoholic filmmaker and tennis academy head who drinks Wild Turkey, as well as being referenced as Wallace's drink of choice in his biography, ""Every Love Story is a Ghost Story"". In Scott Sigler's science fiction book ""Infected"", main character Perry Dawsey is described several times as drinking Wild Turkey. In Patrick Neate's 2004 book ""City of Tiny Lights"" the private investigator anti-hero and narrator of the tale, Tommy Akhtar, subsists on a diet of mostly Wild Turkey and Benson and Hedges cigarettes, referring to them as ""Benny and the Turk"". In Adrian Edmondson's 1995"
"Joseph Jorkens Joseph Jorkens, usually referred to simply as Jorkens, is the lead character in over 150 short stories written by the Irish author Lord Dunsany between 1925 and 1957. Dunsany is noted for his fantasy short stories, fantastic plays, novels and considerable other writings. The Jorkens stories, primarily fantasy but also including elements of adventure, mystery and science fiction literature, have been collected in a series of six books, available () in a three-volume omnibus edition, and were a key inspiration for the ""club tale"" type of short story. In the middle volume of his autobiographical trilogy, ""While the"
"winning novel ""Knight Crusader"" is set in the 12th century and gives a depiction of the Third Crusade, featuring the Christian leader and King of England Richard the Lionheart. Nigel Tranter also wrote historical novels of celebrated Scottish warriors; Robert the Bruce in ""The Bruce Trilogy"". The murder mysteries of both Ruth Rendell and P. D. James are popular crime fiction. John Wyndham wrote post-apocalyptic science fiction, his most notable works being ""The Day of the Triffids"" (1951), and ""The Midwich Cuckoos"" (1957). Other important writers in this genre are Sir Arthur C. Clarke """", Brian Aldiss, and Michael Moorcock."
"Eric Jerome Dickey Eric Jerome Dickey (born July 7, 1961) is a ""New York Times"" best-selling American author best known for his novels about contemporary African-American life. He is also known for writing several crime novels involving grifters, ex cons, and assassins, the latter novels having more diverse settings, moving from Los Angeles to the United Kingdom to the West Indies, each having an international cast of characters. Eric Jerome Dickey was born in Memphis, Tennessee, on July 7, 1961. He grew up on the south side of Memphis, living on Kansas Street. He attended Riverview Elementary, Riverview Junior High,"