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The Magic Fishbone: Classic Children's Story
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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.
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Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens was born in 1812 and grew up in poverty. This experience influenced ‘Oliver Twist’, the second of his fourteen major novels, which first appeared in 1837. When he died in 1870, he was buried in Poets’ Corner in Westminster Abbey as an indication of his huge popularity as a novelist, which endures to this day.
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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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