The Signal-Man

The Signal-Man 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: "Halloa! Below there!" When he heard a voice thus calling to him, he was standing at the door of his box, with a flag in his hand, furled round its short pole.
One would have thought, considering the nature of the ground, that he could not have doubted from what quarter the voice came; but instead o This edition is suited to readers who want a reliable, uncluttered version of the text for study, rediscovery, and sustained reading.