Welcome to 111 Words, by Andrew Shields

"On shanks' mare" in the "shank of the afternoon"

Rafael Nadal and his thirteen years between titles at the Australian Open

Robinson Crusoe, Rip Van Winkle, and Charles Dickens

The figure of a "Swiss snow-drift" on a summer evening in David Copperfield's childhood

Agnes Wickfield and the nineteenth-century heroine's unspeakable love

David Copperfield's "father-in-law"