Doctor Marigold: a novella by Charles Dickens

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 he...