Doctor Marigold - Charles Dickens - Böcker - Les prairies numériques - 9782382742488 - 28 oktober 2020
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Doctor Marigold

Charles Dickens

Doctor Marigold

Doctor Marigold




Charles Dickens




This book is about the story of a "Cheap-Jack" who sells inexpensive articles to the poor in popular fairs. Doctor Marigold, named for the man who delivered him, is a "cheap-jack" who hawks sundries from a traveling cart. His lonely fortunes reverse when he adopts a deaf and mute girl whose mother is dead and whose stepfather, owner of a traveling circus, beats her. After losing both his daughter and wife, he decides to adopt a deaf and mute girl and names her Sophy after his dead daughter. Throughout the two chapters of the book, Dickens portrays the activities of salesmen in the markets and gives samples of the captivating jingles and patters that they sing. Doctor Marigold, who seems to share with Dickens his linguistic passions, invents a system of sign language for his adopted daughter and teaches her to read and communicate. Dickens' novella also represents an examination of critical social issues which were much debated in Victorian England, namely adoption and the place of the disabled in the public eye. The latter issue becomes even more complicated when people with a natural handicap decide to marry and run the risk of passing on the handicap to their children. In the narrative, when Sophy marries, Marigold is greatly saddened for her departure. She later sends him a letter to tell him that she is worried that her expected child would be deaf. All culminates in a happy ending, however, when Sophy comes back home and Doctor Marigold assures her that his granddaughter is perfectly healthy.

Media Böcker     Pocketbok   (Bok med mjukt omslag och limmad rygg)
Releasedatum 28 oktober 2020
ISBN13 9782382742488
Utgivare Les prairies numériques
Antal sidor 24
Mått 148 × 210 × 2 mm   ·   45 g
Språk Engelska  

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