After abandoning a life of dissipation, the barren settles down, but this version of

simple domesticity isn't what he had in mind.

Charles Dickens, today on the Classic Tales podcast.

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Dickens' first serialized novel, The Pickwick Papers, used a significant amount of peripheral

short fiction to bulk up the length of the story, where as Dickens said, make length.

In Nicholas Nickleby, he did it again, inserting a short story in his serialized title.

The Baron of Grog's Fig can be found in Chapter 6.

Considered a satire of a gothic tale, hopefully the charm of Dickens is still shining strong.

And now, The Baron of Grog's Fig, by Charles Dickens.

The Baron von Coeldvittouds of Grog's Fig in Germany was as likely a young Baron as

you would wish to see.

I didn't say that he lived in a castle, because that's of course.

Neither did I say that he lived in an old castle for what German Baron ever lived in

a new one.

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