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    The Magic Fishbone: Classic Children's Story
    The Magic Fishbone: Classic Children's Story
    The Magic Fishbone: Classic Children's Story
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    The Magic Fishbone: Classic Children's Story

    By Charles Dickens

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    This is the extraordinary story of a very nearly ordinary princess named Alicia. Given a magic fish-bone by a good fairy, Alicia can have whatever she wishes-provided she wishes for it at the right time. But it's never clear when the right time is, and sometimes the best magic is no magic at all.... Perfectly matched by S. Beatrice Pearse spectacular illustrations, this funny and unexpectedly touching tale reveals a Victorian world that existed nowhere but in the mind of a child.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDiamond Book Publishing
    Release dateMay 22, 2020
    ISBN9788835832966
    The Magic Fishbone: Classic Children's Story
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    Charles Dickens

    Charles Dickens was born in 1812 near Portsmouth, where his father worked as a clerk. Living in London in 1824, Dickens was sent by his family to work in a blacking-warehouse, and his father was arrested and imprisoned for debt. Fortunes improved and Dickens returned to school, eventually becoming a parliamentary reporter. His first piece of fiction was published by a magazine in December 1832, and by 1836 he had begun his first novel, The Pickwick Papers. He focused his career on writing, completing fourteen highly successful novels, as well as penning journalism, shorter fiction and travel books. He died in 1870.

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      The Magic Fishbone - Charles Dickens

      FOREWORD

      The story contained herein was written by Charles Dickens in 1867. It is the second of four stories entitled Holiday Romance and was published originally in a children’s magazine in America. It purports to be written by a child aged seven. It was republished in England in All the Year Round in 1868. For this and four other Christmas pieces Dickens received £1,000.

      Holiday Romance was published in book form by Messrs Chapman & Hall in 1874, with Edwin Drood and other stories.

      For this reprint the text of the story as it appeared in All the Year Round has been followed.

      several of the children were growing out of their clothes

      THE MAGIC FISHBONE

      There was once a King, and he had a Queen; and he was the manliest of his sex, and she was the loveliest of hers. The King was, in his private profession, Under Government. The Queen’s father had been a medical man out of town.

      They had nineteen children, and were always having more. Seventeen of these children took care of the baby; and Alicia, the eldest, took care

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