“ I became, at ten years old, a little labouring hind in the service of Murdstone and Grinby.”
Thus relates David Copperfield in the Charles Dickens novel of the same name.
Of course, Dickens was a crusader against the exploitation of children. The edge is taken off the depictions of the heartless treatment of children in his fiction, though, by the funny and memorable p...
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