Krook

In Mayhew one encounters the real-life equivalents of such Charles Dickens characters as Fagin, the Jewish receiver of stolen goods; Krook, the rag-and-bottle-merchant; Jo, the sickly crossing sweeper; and the Artful Dodger, leader of a band of youthful pickpockets.

Sociology most Dickensian Michael Dirda 2011

Krook says the robbers were dressed in Santa hats and masks.

Bad Santa: 2 St. Nicks Steal AK5 Rifle In Robbery AP 2010

Krook says the robbers were dressed in Santa hats and masks.

Bad Santa: 2 St. Nicks Steal AK5 Rifle In Robbery AP 2010

The BBC TV adaptation of a while ago is sufficiently distant to have had Bookhound and I spending a very long ten minutes trying to remember the name of the person who played Krook.

44 entries from December 2007 2007

The BBC TV adaptation of a while ago is sufficiently distant to have had Bookhound and I spending a very long ten minutes trying to remember the name of the person who played Krook.

A Dickens of a read. 2007

The BBC TV adaptation of a while ago is sufficiently distant to have had Bookhound and I spending a very long ten minutes trying to remember the name of the person who played Krook.

A Dickens of a read. 2007

Krook drops the heavy hand he has taken up so suddenly that the arm swings over the bedside.

Bleak House 2007

This has brought me into communication with Krook and into a knowledge of his house and his habits.

Bleak House 2007

Now do they set forth how it will doubtless be remembered that some time back a painful sensation was created in the public mind by a case of mysterious death from opium occurring in the first floor of the house occupied as a rag, bottle, and general marine store shop, by an eccentric individual of intemperate habits, far advanced in life, named Krook; and how, by

Bleak House 2007

At those times, when he is not visited by Mr. Guppy or by a small light in his likeness quenched in a dark hat, he comes out of his dull room — where he has inherited the deal wilderness of desk bespattered with a rain of ink — and talks to Krook or is “very free,” as they call it in the court, commendingly, with any one disposed for conversation.

Bleak House 2007