The Child's Story

The Child's Story by Charles Dickens is offered here in a clean English digital edition prepared for fluent ebook reading. The work stands within classics and gives modern readers direct access to a public-domain classic with navigable structure and a restrained typographic presentation. The opening pages establish the book's atmosphere with this first movement: Once upon a time, a good many years ago, there was a traveller, and he set out upon a journey.
It was a magic journey, and was to seem very long when he began it, and very short when he got half way through. He travelled along a rather dark path for some little time, without meeting anything, until This edition is suited to readers who want a reliable, uncluttered version of the text for study, rediscovery, and sustained reading.