Doctor Marigold's Prescriptions; Mugby Junction

Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchintz, 1867. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Custom bound with owner initials on spine. Boards rubbed, pencil name on front free endpaper verso. 1867 Hard Cover. 354 pp. Originally published in 1865, Doctor Marigold was extremely successful, as were Dickens's public performances of a play based on the story--fascinating and easy to read. Doctor (it is his given name) Marigold is a "Cheap Jack" or what we would call a street peddler. Doctor Marigold's fortunes reverse when he adopts a deaf and mute girl whose mother is dead and whose stepfather, owner of a traveling circus, beats her. Dr Marigold recalls an overwhelming passion across two cultures--hearing and deaf.--Internet Archive. Mugby Junction tells the story of a railway signalman bewildered and confused by a ghost that is haunting him.