Beautiful Stories About Children by Charles Dickens Retold by His Granddaughter and Others

(Philadelphia: The John C. Winston Company, 1898, actually circa 1929).

Price: $50.00

Hardcover. Later printing. Illustrated. 320pp. Stamp on front pastedown, spine slightly rubbed, modest edgewear, very good in a spine-tanned and stained good only dust jacket with some loss at spine edges and flap folds, small hole in spine and small chips and tears. Part of the Challenge Series for Boys and Girls.

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Item #245422 Beautiful Stories About Children by Charles Dickens Retold by His Granddaughter and Others. Charles DICKENS.

Charles Dickens
birth name: Charles John Huffman Dickens
born: 2/7/1812
died: 6/9/1870
nationality: Great Britain

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Biography

English novelist, generally considered the greatest of the Victorian period. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature Random Dickens trivia - the first professional baseball team was the Dolly Vardens, a Philadelphia, PA all-African-American, all-female baseball team formed in 1867 (two years before the Cincinnati Red Stockings). Their name came from a character in the Dickens's novella Barnaby Rudge. The Dolly Vardens folded after a short time due to lack of support.more

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