Le ricette del Dottor Marigold. Testo inglese a fronte

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

🖤En mi afán de ir ampliando mi humilde colección de Charles Dickens me encontré esta pequeña maravilla de tan solo 74 páginas . 🖤En1865 en un número extra de Navidad la revista “All The Year Round” que dirigía Dickens,publicó un extenso relato :”Doctor Marigold’s Prescriptions”,está edición recoge e Leggi tutto

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 Leggi tutto

A lively narrative with characters that bustle off the page. Vibrant, entertaining, funny. The only drawback was the beatings that the young girls would go through. But Doctor Marigold is there to barter, buy, sell and save the day.. And seemingly all is fair in marriage and marketplaces...

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 Leggi tutto