This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1871 Excerpt: ...And look upon us, angels of young children, with regards not quite estranged, when the swift river bears us to the ocean!" Why is it that through glistening tears we see the imaginary pillow illuminated? Why do we know that mothers who have lost young children listen with bowed heads and yet with overflowing gratitude? ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1871 Excerpt: ...And look upon us, angels of young children, with regards not quite estranged, when the swift river bears us to the ocean!" Why is it that through glistening tears we see the imaginary pillow illuminated? Why do we know that mothers who have lost young children listen with bowed heads and yet with overflowing gratitude? Because the reader leads us through the dark valley of the shadow of Death into the bright gladness of Life EternaL. Ten characters! and Dickens fills them all without fear and without reproach! DOCTOR MAEIGOLD. /vF all Dickens's Eeadings, this of "'Doctor Marigold"-is, from a literary point of view, the most complete. It is the most complete, because, with the exception of a few paragraphs here and there, it embraces the entire story as originally written. "Doctor Marigold's Prescription" is given and taken without any perceptible diminution of the original dose. What a happy, healthy world this would be if all prescriptions were equally beneficial in their results! Who that has grown heart-sick at the hollowness and conventionality of" society " wonders why Dickens selects his heroes and heroines from humble life? No author has done so much to raise the level of human nature by simply laying bare the generous impulses of the lowly. The obscurer the profession, the more tenderly Dickens treats its followers; carrying out the scriptural prophecy of the first being last, and the last first. In rescuing the Cheap Jack from the inevitable oblivion entailed by the expanding network of railroads, Dickens has laid a beautiful offering upon a neglected altar; and in himself assuming the character of " Doctor Marigold," he has made at least one Cheap Jack known to thousands who otherwise would have passed ...
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Add this copy of Pen Photographs of Charles Dickens's Readings: Taken to cart. $35.94, new condition, Sold by A2ZBooks rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Burgin, KY, UNITED STATES, published 2009 by Kessinger Publishing, LLC.
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New. New Condition Reprint of the original publication. Minimal shelf wear from storage, Cover looks very nice. inside is like new clean and crisp, Looks great. 180 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; ISBN: 1104273853. ISBN/EAN: 9781104273859. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 1561060035.
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