{"_id":"69bbc457b842b5e5e968fa06","title":"The Lamplighter’s Story","author":"Charles Dickens","code":"the-lamplighters-story","publish_year":1841,"publish_source":"The Pic Nic Papers","publish_edition":"Vol. 1","publish_scan":"https://archive.org/details/picnicpapers00dickgoog/page/n14/mode/2up","words":6896,"image":"wormhole.jpg","image_alt":"A bright constellation. Graphite filter","genres":["quirky","sci-fi"],"description":"A lamplighter tells of another of his trade who found himself at the receiving end of an astrologer’s prophesy.","blurb":"Six months ago, I derived from this source, the knowledge that precisely as the clock struck five this afternoon a stranger would present himself—the destined husband of my young and lovely niece—in reality of illustrious and high descent, but whose birth would be enveloped in uncertainty and mystery.","rating":3,"has_review":false,"has_collections":false}