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Bleak House

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After impressing Francis Drake with a feat of daring and bravery, young Ned Hearne is offered a reward of his own choosing. His decision? To sail the seas on Drake's ship. Little does he know, however, what adventures, dangers and close shaves lie in store!From run-ins with the Spanish Inquisition to joining a band of runaway slaves, Ned and his friends visit strange and exotic lands and watch one of the great naval battles as the English fleet clashes with the mighty Spanish Armada."Oh, sir!" the boy exclaimed, his cheek flushing with excitement. "If you are Master Francis Drake, will you let me join your ship, for the voyage to the Indies?""

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Writer

Charles Dickens

Language

English

ISBN

9781847496713

Number of pages

992

Publisher

Alma Books Ltd

Bleak House - Charles Dickens

I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free. Mankind will surely not deny to Harold Skimpole what it concedes to the butterflies!

A word in earnest is as good as a speech.

It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.

The one great principle of the English law is, to make business for itself.

Here and there, an old tub was put to catch the droppings of rain-water from a roof, or they were banked up with mud into a little pond like a large dirt-pie.

The rain is ever falling, drip, drip, drip, by day and night, upon the broad flagged terrace-pavement.

He didn't at all see why the busy bee should be proposed as a model to him; he supposed the Bee liked to make honey, or he wouldn't do it -- nobody asked him. It was not necessary for the bee to make such a merit of his tastes.

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