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Mugby Junction, and other stories

Having seen his portmanteaus safely housed in the hotel he chose, and having appointed his dinner hour, Barbox Brothers went out for a walk in the busy streets. And now it began to be suspected by him that Mugby Junction was a Junction of many branches, invisible as well as visible, and had joined him to an endless number of by-ways. For, whereas he would, but a little while ago, have walked these streets blindly brooding, he now had eyes and thoughts for a new external world.

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  • "Having seen his portmanteaus safely housed in the hotel he chose, and having appointed his dinner hour, Barbox Brothers went out for a walk in the busy streets. And now it began to be suspected by him that Mugby Junction was a Junction of many branches, invisible as well as visible, and had joined him to an endless number of by-ways. For, whereas he would, but a little while ago, have walked these streets blindly brooding, he now had eyes and thoughts for a new external world."@en
  • "One of Charles Dickens' light-hearted short works, satirising events in and around Rugby railway station."@en
  • "Charles Dickens' Mugby Junction is a compilation of short stories whose events happen mostly round a Victorian railway station. The work was written in 1866 and originally published in its entirety in the All The Year Round magazine. The most famous short story included in the volume is "The Signalman." The latter is the story of a railway signalman who works in a somehow isolated cutting and who is regularly visited by the narrator of the story. On more than one occasion, the couple sit and chat when the signalman eventually decides to reveal his secret and speak to his visitor about his job's hardships and mainly about a strange apparition that keeps on haunting the area. Following every visit by the ghost, he explains that there must happen a catastrophe in the region. The narrator, who does not seem to believe in such supernatural apparitions and who suspects the signalman of some psychological troubles, comes to go through the same experience himself. Other short stories in the compilation also follow events happening round train stations."@en
  • ""Arriving at Mugby Junction in an attempt to escape his unhappy past, a solitary traveller befriends a workman and his invalid daughter. With their help he sets his sights on discovering which of the seven lines of the Junction will most aid him in his journey of escape. In exploring one such line, he meets 'the woman he had lost', only to return to Mugby Junction once this situation has been played out. Staying there, and continuing his friendship with the workman and his daughter, he collects together the multifarious stories he hears around the Junction."--Cover."
  • "Arriving at Mugby Junction in an attempt to escape his unhappy past, Barbox Brothers befriends a workman and his invalid daughter. With their help, he sets his sights on discovering which of the seven lines of the junction will most aid him in his journey of escape. In exploring one such line, he meets "the woman he had lost," only to return to Mugby Junction once this has played out. Staying there, and continuing his friendship with the workman and his daughter, he collects the myriad stories he hears tell of at the junction."@en

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  • "Mugby Junction, and other stories"@en
  • "Mrs. Lirriper's legacy : the extra Christmas number of All the year round. Conducted for Christmas, 1864"@en
  • "Dickens's Christmas story, Mugby Junction : comprising Barbox Brothers, Barbox Brothers and Co., Main line : the boy at Mugby, No. 1 Branch line : the signalman"@en
  • "Mugby junction"
  • "Mugby junction"@en
  • "Mugby junction the extra Christmas number of All the year round"@en
  • "Mugby junction : the extra Christmas number of All the year round"@en
  • "Mrs. Lirriper's legacy ; Mugby junction :the extra Christmas number of All the year round"
  • "Mvgby Junction"@en
  • "Mugby Junction : the extra Christmas number of All the year round"@en
  • "Mugby Junction"@da
  • "Mugby junction and other stories"@en
  • "Mugby Junction"@en
  • "Mugby Junction"
  • "Mugby junction and other stories. Printed in the corresponding style of Pitman's shorthand"@en
  • "Mugby Junction Hörbuch"
  • "Mugby Junction and other stories : printed in the corresponding style of Pitman's shorthand"@en
  • "Mugby junction : and other stories"
  • "Mugby Junction and other stories. Printed in the corresponding style of Pitman's shorthand"@en

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