Also published as The Trial for Murder, To be Taken with a Grain of Salt is a short ghost story by English author Charles Dickens. - AsNotedIn
I have always noticed a prevalent want of courage, even among persons of superior intelligence and culture, as to imparting their own psychological experiences when those have been of a strange sort. Almost all men are afraid that what they could relate in such wise would find no parallel or response in a listener's internal life, and might be suspected or laughed at. Charles Dickens, To be Taken with a Grain of Salt
| Y/M/D | Association | Description | Place | Locale | Food | Event | |
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| 1865/12/00 | Charles Dickens | Author | Charles Dickens's ghostly short story "To be Taken with a Grain of Salt" makes its case in 'All the Year Round', Christmas Number. | ||||
| 1865/12/00 | All the Year Round | Publisher | Charles Dickens's ghostly short story "To be Taken with a Grain of Salt" makes its case in 'All the Year Round', Christmas Number. |
| Particulars for To be Taken with a Grain of Salt (Short Story): | |||
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| Narrative Arts | Fiction | prose literature, especially short stories and novels, that describes imaginary events and people | |
| Weather | Fog, mist | a thick cloud of tiny water droplets suspended in the atmosphere at or near the earth's surface which obscures visibility, Fog is more dense than mist | |
| Utility | Gaslight | a type of lamp in which an incandescent mantle is heated by a jet of burning gas | |
| Supernatural | Ghost | an apparition of a dead person which is believed to appear or become manifest to the living, typically as a nebulous image | |
| Narrative Arts | Narrative | an account of connected events | |
| Narrative Arts | Prose | ordinary written language | |
| Art Type | Short Story | short form narrative fiction | |
| Legal Proceeding | Trial | ||
| Literary Attribute | Victorian Ghost Story | supernatural stories of mystery, atmospheric settings, but typically not horror or violent | |
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| Original Language: | English | ||
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