An Archive of Art and Literature by the Bohemians of Antebellum New York

Size [from Dickens' All the Year Round]

Dickens, Charles. "Size [from Dickens' All the Year Round]." New York Saturday Press, November 14, 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.