The hero of the beautiful work before you – Doctor Marigold – is a traveling salesman in used goods. And he does his job well. One could even say that he is not the most suitable person to sell you anything, and this is because Doctor Marigold's main tool, his secret weapon, is word of mouth, communication between people, and alongside them his inherent joy of life and his ever-uplifting spirit. Just as Marigold sells his goods to people, so too does Dickens captivate us with his marvelous rhetoric and invite us into a plot that includes abject poverty, a death in the family, a life-saving meeting with a deaf and mute girl, the birth of the urge to parent and educate, a library that feels like home, and a kind heart that overcomes everything. In Dickens' last days and at the end of his literary career, he chooses to reflect himself precisely in the image of a traveling salesman, a well-known, suffering country chatterbox who conquers the hearts of the common people.