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Doctor Marigold

Charles Dickens

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .Will that content you?  It won’t?  You won’t take the lot yet?  Well, then, before I put the horse in and drive away, and make the offer to the next most magnificent town that can be discovered, I’ll tell you what I’ll do.  Take the lot, and I’ll drop two thousand pound in the streets of your magnificent town for them to pick up that can.  Not enough?  Now look here.  This is the very furthest that I’m a going to.  I’ll make it two thousand five hundred.  And still you won’t?  Here, missis!  Put the horse—no, stop half a moment, I shouldn’t like to turn my back upon you neither for a trifle, I’ll make it two thousand seven hundred and fifty pound.  There!  Take the lot on your own terms, and I’ll count out two thousand seven hundred and fifty pound on the footboard of the cart, to be dropped in the streets of your magnificent town for them to pick up . . . Read More

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This story is widely available in ebook editions, but I have just reread it in an old hardback copy of Dickens's Christmas Stories. It is very melodramatic and likely to move readers to tears, but with plenty of humour too. It follows the often tragic story of a cheapjack, "Doctor" Marigold (called

"דוקטור מריגולד" היא לטעמי היצירה הטובה ביותר בפרוייקט "מפה לאוזן" של הוצאת תשע נשמות.

סיפור מרחיב לב, על נווד, סוחר עתיקות שאיבד את אישתו ובתו וקשר את גורלו עם ילדה חרשת אילמת, אסופית שלקח תחת חסותו. האסופית גדלה לקרוא לו אב ולאחר שהוא משקיע זמן ומרץ בחינוכה הוא שולח אותה להתחנל במוסד מיוחד שיאפשר ל

An interesting and enjoyable Dickens story - I loved the exploration of the relationship between father and daughter.

Written as a story for one of his Christmas editions of 'All the Year Round', 'Doctor Marigold's Prescriptions' as it was first entitled is a heart-wrenching tale of a cheap jack, market trader, who loses his own daughter and then his wife and ends up adopting a deaf and dumb young girl.

In the most

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