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Size [from Dickens' All the Year Round]

Dickens, Charles. "Size [from Dickens' All the Year Round]." New York Saturday Press. 14 Nov. 1865: 219-222.
Type: 
newspaper
Genre: 
short fiction
Abstract: 

The narrator goes to see a giant. His size shocks her and she faints on two separate occassions. The large man falls deathly ill and calls upon her, thinking that she desires a husband. As his dying act he joins the hand of his friend and the narrator's. The giant survives and the two do get married.