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- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5This is the sentimental(?) side of Dickens that sometimes leaves the reader asking, "So what exactly was that about?"
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Title: A Child's Dream of a Star
Author: Charles Dickens
Illustrator: Hammatt Billings
Release Date: March 1, 2013 [EBook #42232]
Language: English
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A Child’s Dream of a Star
by Charles Dickens
Illustrated by
Hammattt Billings.
A CHILD’S DREAM OF A STAR
A CHILD’S DREAM OF A STAR.
By CHARLES DICKENS.
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY HAMMATT BILLINGS.
BOSTON:
FIELDS, OSGOOD, & CO.
1871.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1870,
BY FIELDS, OSGOOD, & CO.,
in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.
University Press: Welch, Bigelow,
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