Charles Dickens - Three Short Stories

"Everybody said he looked like a haunted man. The extent of my present claim for everybody is, that they were so far right. He did. Who could have seen his hollow cheek; his sunken brilliant eye; his black-attired figure, indefinably grim, although well-knit and wellproportioned; his grizzled hair hanging, like tangled sea-weed, about his face, as if he had been, through his whole life, a lonely mark for the chafing and beating of the great deep of humanity, but might have said he looked like a haunted man?" -- Excerpt Charles Dickens is known not only for his novels, but also for his short stories. While The Cricket on the Hearth, The Battle of Life and The Haunted Man were written for the Christmas market, they tell us much about the age Dickens lived in.