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Автор: Thomas Hauser
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      BOOKS BY THOMAS HAUSER

      GENERAL NON-FICTION

       Missing

       The Trial of Patrolman Thomas Shea

       For Our Children

       (with Frank Macchiarola)

       The Family Legal Companion

       Final Warning: The Legacy of Chernobyl

       (with Dr. Robert Gale)

       Arnold Palmer: A Personal Journey

       Confronting America’s Moral Crisis

       (with Frank Macchiarola)

       Healing: A Journal of Tolerance and Understanding

       With This Ring

       (with Frank Macchiarola)

       Thomas Hauser on Sports

       Reflections

      BOXING NON-FICTION

       The Black Lights: Inside the World of Professional Boxing

       Muhammad Ali: His Life and Times

       Muhammad Ali: Memories

       Muhammad Ali: In Perspective

       Muhammad Ali & Company

       A Beautiful Sickness

       A Year At The Fights

       Brutal Artistry

       The View From Ringside

       Chaos, Corruption, Courage, and Glory

       The Lost Legacy of Muhammad Ali

       I Don’t Believe It, But It’s True

       Knockout

       (with Vikki LaMotta)

       The Greatest Sport of All

       The Boxing Scene

       An Unforgiving Sport

       Boxing Is . . .

       Box: The Face of Boxing

       The Legend of Muhammad Ali

       (with Bart Barry)

       Winks and Daggers

       And the New . . .

       Straight Writes and Jabs

       Thomas Hauser on Boxing

       A Hurting Sport

      FICTION

       Ashworth & Palmer

       Agatha’s Friends

       The Beethoven Conspiracy

       Hanneman’s War

       The Fantasy

       Dear Hannah

       The Hawthorne Group

       Mark Twain Remembers

       Finding The Princess

       Waiting For Carver Boyd

       The Final Recollections of Charles Dickens

       The Baker’s Tale

      FOR CHILDREN

       Martin Bear & Friends

      Copyright © 2015 Thomas Hauser

      All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission from the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

      This is a work of fiction. Despite the incidental use of actual historical figures and places, the characters and incidents portrayed in this book are wholly fictional.

      LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA

      Hauser, Thomas.

      The Bakers Tale: Ruby Spriggs and the Legacy of Charles Dickens / Thomas Hauser.

      pages; cm

      1. Bakers—England—London—Fiction. 2. London (England)—Social conditions—19th century—Fiction. 3. London (England)—Social life and customs—19th century—Fiction. I. Title.

      PS3558.A759B35 2015

      813’.54—dc23

      2015009414

      Cover design by Faceout

      Interior design by Neuwirth & Associates

      Counterpoint Press

      2560 Ninth Street, Suite 318

      Berkeley, CA 94710

       www.counterpointpress.com

      Distributed by Publishers Group West

      10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

      e-book ISBN 978-1-61902-669-8

      FOR RUBY CARELLIE CHAPMAN

      AND

      REECE EDWIN CHAPMAN

      Contents

      Chapter 4

      Chapter 5

      Chapter 6

      Book 3

      Chapter 7

      Chapter 8

      Chapter 9

      Chapter 10

      Chapter 11

      Chapter 12

      Book 4

      Chapter 13

      AUTHOR’S NOTE

      This is a work of fiction. Throughout the manuscript, I have comingled the words of Charles Dickens with my own. I have also drawn from the May 1842 report of the Royal Commission headed by Lord Anthony Ashley that investigated the conditions in England’s mines.

      Thomas Hauser