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Excerpt: Some Christmas Stories by Charles Dickens.

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...Contents A CHRISTMAS TREE ......................................................................................................................................... 4 WHAT CHRISTMAS IS .......................................................

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... Charles Dickens A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Some Christmas Stories by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania S... ...e document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Some Christmas Stories by Charles Dickens, the Pennsylvania State University, El... ...ity. 3 Charles Dickens Cont Cont Cont Cont Contents ents ents ents ents A CHRISTMAS TREE ............................................................... ...................................................................... 4 WHAT CHRISTMAS IS.................................................................. .................................................................. 54 4 Some Christmas Stories Some Christmas Stories by Charles Dickens Some Short Chri... ...s Some Christmas Stories by Charles Dickens Some Short Christmas Stories A CHRISTMAS TREE I HAVE BEEN LOOKING ON, this evening, at a merry com pany o... ... at a merry com pany of children assembled round that pretty German toy, a Christmas Tree. The tree was planted in the middle of a great round table, ... ...l remember best upon the branches of the Christ- mas Tree of our own young Christmas days, by which we climbed to real life. Straight, in the middle o... ...that it appears to grow downward towards the earth—I look into my youngest Christmas recollections! All toys at first, I find. Up yonder, among the gr...

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Excerpt: A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens.

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...in the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, the Pennsylvania State University, ... ...ity The Pennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity University. A CHRISTMAS CAROL by Charles Dickens I have endeavoured in this Ghostl... ...ng to relate. If we were not perfectly convinced that Hamlet’s Father died A Christmas Carol: Stave 1 3 before the play began, there would be nothing... ...ith him; he iced his office in the dogdays; and didn’t thaw it one degree at Christmas. External heat and cold had little influence on Scrooge. No war... ...hy to keep its distance, was what the knowing ones call ‘nuts’ to Scrooge. A Christmas Carol: Stave 1 4 Once upon a time — of all the good days in th... ...as Carol: Stave 1 4 Once upon a time — of all the good days in the year, on Christmas Eve — old Scrooge sat busy in his counting house. It was cold, ... ...n which effort, not being a man of a strong imagination, he failed. ‘A merry Christmas, uncle! God save you!’ cried a cheerful voice. It was the voice... ...ace was ruddy and handsome; his eyes sparkled, and his breath smoked again. ‘Christmas a humbug, uncle!’ said Scrooge’s nephew. ‘You don’t mean that, ... ...ge’s nephew. ‘You don’t mean that, I am sure?’ ‘I do, ’ said Scrooge. ‘Merry Christmas! What right have you to be merry? What reason have you to be me...

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...A Christmas Carol is a novella by English author Charles Dickens first published by Chapman & Hall on 17 December 1843. The story tells of sour and stingy Ebenezer Scrooge's ideological, ethical, and emotional transformation af...

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...ormation after being visited by his deceased colleague Jacob Marley, who warns him to change his ways and has three spirits visit him on the night of Christmas Eve. (Introduction by Jeff Robinson)...

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... wish to lay it. Their faithful Friend and Servant, C. D. December, 1843. A CHRISTMAS CAROL. STA VE ONE. MARLEY’S GHOST M ARLEY was dead: to begin wi... ...ith him; he iced his office in the dog days; and didn’t thaw it one degree at Christmas. External heat and cold had little influence on Scrooge. No warm... ... 4 A CRISTMAS CAROL Once upon a time — of all the good days in the year, on Christmas Eve — old Scrooge sat busy in his counting house. It was cold, ... ...n which effort, not being a man of a strong imagination, he failed. “A merry Christmas, uncle! God save you!” cried a cheerful voice. It was the voice... ...ace was ruddy and handsome; his eyes sparkled, and his breath smoked again. “Christmas a humbug, uncle!” said Scrooge’s nephew. “You don’t mean that, ... ...oge’s nephew. “You don’t mean that, I am sure.” “I do,” said Scrooge. “Merry Christmas! What right have you to be merry? what reason have you to be me... ...be,” returned the uncle, “when I live in such a world of fools as this Merry Christmas! Out upon merry Christmas. What’s Christmas time to MARLEY’S G... ... my will,” said Scrooge indignantly, “every idiot who goes about with “Merry Christmas” on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried... ...!” “Uncle!” pleaded the nephew. “Nephew!” returned the uncle, sternly, “keep Christmas in your own way, and let me keep it in mine.” “Keep it!” repeat...

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...if this story yields insights into The Mystery of Edwin Drood (unfinished 1870). - Wilkie Collings collaborated with Charles Dickens to produce this ‘Christmas’ book and the stage play of the same name. In the book Collins assisted in Act 1 and Act 4; Collins scripted most of the stage play with Dickens’ assistance. If this book were released today it would be splashed THE...

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...The Haunted Bridge in Town Time Trip to Missouri Cow Kidnapping Fishing Escape to Party Playing the Game Waiting Positive Thinking for Christmas Santa Monthly Chinese Christmas Decorations Poems ...

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...s ON SOME CARP AT SANS SOUCI ............................ 4 DE JUVENTUTE.......................................................... 10 ROUND ABOUT THE CHRISTMAS TREE ............ 19...

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.......................................................... 10 ROUND ABOUT THE CHRISTMAS TREE ............ 19 4 Thackeray Some Roundabout Papers by W. M.... ...tomime, turkey and sausages, plum-puddings, jollifications for schoolboys; Christmas bills, and reminiscences more or less sad and sweet for elders. I... ...ival too. Beef, beer, and pudding will be served to her for that day also. Christmas falls on a Thursday. Friday is the workhouse day for coming out. ... ...ave to come out for a day of Christ- mas holiday. Shall there be many more Christmases for thee? Think of the ninety she has seen already; the foursco... ...f! Do not be cynical. Do not mistrust your fellow-creatures. What? Has the Christmas morning dawned upon thee ninety times? For four- score and ten ye... ... earth, hungry and obscure? Peace and goodwill to thee, let us say at this Christmas season. Come, drink, eat, rest awhile at our hearth, thou poor ol... ...cent hands war has torn the means of labour. Enough! As I hope for beef at Christmas, I vow a note shall be sent to Saint Lazarus Union House, in whic... ...a hushed blessing were upon it. 19 Some Roundabout Papers ROUND ABOUT THE CHRISTMAS TREE T he kindly Christmas tree, from which I trust every gentle ... ...They are four, five, six years old. Patience, little people! A dozen merry Christmases more, and you will be reading those wonderful love-conundrums, ...

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...w. ?It only means romping. To me all that is detestable, and I am sure it is not the sort of thing that Miss Holmes would like.? ?We always had it at Christmas when we were young.? ?But, mamma, the world is so changed.?...

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...s not the sort of thing that Miss Holmes would like.” “We always had it at Christmas when we were young.” “But, mamma, the world is so changed.” The p... ...nk Garrow had brought home with him out of the Lowther woods be hung up on Christmas Eve in the dining-room at Thwaite Hall, according to his wishes; ... ...t week before their coming, all her thoughts had been to prepare for their Christmas pleasures. She had arranged their rooms, mak- ing everything warm... ...f sixteen, who, with her sister Kate, was coming from Penrith to spend the Christmas at Thwaite Hall. Elizabeth left the room with her slow, graceful ... ... under the guardian- ship of Major Garrow, and, as he had always spent his Christmas holidays with his guardian, this, perhaps, had given rise to the ... ...sins of the Garrows, and they had usually been there as chil- dren. At the Christmas last past the custom had been broken, for young Holmes had been a... ...mparatively a stranger at Thwaite Hall, never hav- ing been at those early Christmas meetings. And now I must take permission to begin my story by tel... ..., “Bessy is only a child, and too young to think of this yet.” At the next Christmas Godfrey was in Italy, and the thing was gone by,—so at least the ... ...re shall be no quarrel. It shall be exactly as it was, and he will come at Christmas all the same. It would never do that he and 7 Anthony Trollope p...

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....118 CHAPTER X - LETTER TO A YOUNG GENTLEMAN WHO PROPOSES TO EMBRACE THE CAREER OF ART............................................127 CHAPTER XII - A CHRISTMAS SERMON.........140...

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...CAREER OF ART............................................127 CHAPTER XII - A CHRISTMAS SERMON.........140 4 Across the Plains whom I take to have bee... ... strives with unconquerable constancy: Surely not all in vain. CHAPTER XII A CHRISTMAS SERMON BY THE TIME THIS PAPER appears, I shall have been talkin... ...on will be satisfied, and there need be no despair for the despairer. II BUT CHRISTMAS IS NOT only the mile-mark of another year, moving us to thought...

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...To the Pending Year Shakspere-Bacon's Cipher Long, Long Hence Bravo, Paris Exposition! Interpolation Sounds To the Sun-Set Breeze Old Chants A Christmas Greeting Sounds of the Winter. A Twilight Song When the Full-Grown Poet Came Osceola A Voice from Death A Persian Lesson The Commonplace "The Rounded Catalogue Divine Complete" Mirages L. of G.'s Purport ...

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...e clouds of steam. ?By the time you?ve been in this country as long as I have, my son, and lived on rabbit tracks and salmon-belly, you?ll learn that Christmas comes only once per annum. And a Christmas without punch is sinking a hole to bedrock with nary a pay-streak.? ......

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... have, my son, and lived on rabbit tracks and salmon belly, you ’ll learn that Christmas comes only once per annum. And a Christmas without punch is s...

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........................................... 57 HEATHER ALE ...........................................................................................60 CHRISTMAS AT SEA .................................................................................64...

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............................................... 57 HEATHER ALE ............................................................................................. ...ourage That goes without the beard. But now in vain is the torture, Fire shall never avail: Here dies in my bosom The secret of Heather Ale.” Ballads ... ...the church were rung with a mighty jovial cheer; For it’s just that I should tell you how (of all days in the year) This day of our adversity was bles... ...hadow on the household and the son that went to sea; And O the wicked fool I seemed, in every kind of way, To be here and hauling frozen ropes on bles...

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...Excerpt: There was a large, brilliant evening star in the early twilight, and underfoot the earth was half frozen. It was Christmas Eve. Also the War was over, and there was a sense of relief that was almost a new menace. A man felt the violence of the nightmare released now into the general air. Also there had been another wrangle among the men...

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...n white pinafores ran out in front of his legs. “Father, shall you set the Christmas Tree?” they cried. “We’ve got one!” “Afore I have my dinner?” he ... ...he unwrapped the bit of newspaper and disclosed a sil- very ornament for a Christmas tree: a frail thing like a silver plum, with deep rosy indentatio... ...side of the house, to the street. To Aaron Sisson, this was home, this was Christmas: the unspeakably familiar. The war over, nothing was changed. Yet... ... thinking. When he went into the middle room to comb his hair he found the Christmas tree sparkling, his wife was making pastry at the table, the baby... ...ense movements, as the delicate music poured out. It was sixteenth-century Christmas melody, very limpid and delicate. The pure, mindless, exquisite m... ...t once, but still with timidity asked: “We haven’t got any candles for the Christmas tree—shall you buy some, because mother isn’t going out?” “Candle... .... H. Lawrence and blowing a few piercing, preparatory notes. “Y es, little Christmas-tree candles—blue ones and red ones, in boxes —Shall you, Father?... ...ence As he came near the little market-place he bethought him- self of the Christmas-tree candles. He did not intend to trouble himself. And yet, when... ...bly could not buy the things made him hesitate, and try. “Have you got any Christmas-tree candles?” he asked as he entered the shop. “How many do you ...

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...howder, 74 -- 16 The Ship, 77 -- 17 The Ramadan, 89 -- 18 His Mark, 94 -- 19 The Prophet, 98 -- 20 All Astir, 101 -- 21 Going Aboard, 104 -- 22 Merry Christmas, 107 -- 23 The Lee Shore, 111 -- 24 The Advocate, 113 -- 25 Postscript, 117 -- 26 Knights and Squires, 118...

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... Aboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 22 Merry Christmas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 23 The Le... ...compliments to all his friends, just as though these presents were so many Christmas turkeys. After all, I do not think that my remarks about religion... ...tain Ahab remained invisibly enshrined within his cabin. Chapter 22 Merry Christmas A t length, towards noon, upon the final dismissal of the ship’s r... ...ed to do most of the talking and commanding, and not 108 Chapter 22 Merry Christmas Bildad. “Aft here, ye sons of bachelors,” he cried, as the sailor... ... was up, the sails were set, and off we glided. It was a Chapter 22 Merry Christmas 109 short, cold Christmas; and as the short northern day merged i... ... old shipmate, we must go. Back the main yard there! 110 Chapter 22 Merry Christmas Boat ahoy! Stand by to come close alongside, now! Careful, carefu... ... of them Americans; a Nantucketer, a Vineyarder, a Cape man. Now, it being Christmas when the ship shot from out her harbor, for a space we had biting... ...hink of having half an acre of stomach ache! Adverse winds are holding mad Christmas in him, boys. It’s the first foul wind I ever knew to blow from as...

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...o be generally known by the title of Annual, being a miscellany of prose and verse, equipped with numerous engravings, and put forth every year about Christmas, had flourished for a long while in Germany before it was imitated in this country by an enterprising bookseller, a German by birth, Mr. Ackermann. The rapid success of his work, as is the custom of the time, gave b...

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... on the eve of marrying Edward's sweetheart, May. In the end, the lodger is revealed to be none other than Edward. Tackleton's heart is melted by the Christmas season, like Ebeneezer Scrooge, and surrenders May to marry her true love. It is suggested ambiguously that Bertha regains her sight at the end. (Wikipedia)...

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...rer The Job ...............................................81 Bill Zeruth I Can Tell You This .......................................85 Krista Paul A Christmas Surprise .....................................90...

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...no!” shouted Maria. “Fifteen cents for the lot! I might as well make you a Christmas present! Besides, I got some gold fillings off him; look at um.” ... ...oom was prolific in pictures. Most of them were framed colored prints from Christmas editions of the Lon- don “Graphic” and “Illustrated News,” the su... ... party. He read the papers, he subscribed to a dental magazine; on Easter, Christmas, and New Year’s he went to church with Trina. He commenced to hav... ...k in her chair with a long sigh of re- lief. She had just finished a large Christmas order for Uncle Oelbermann, and there was nothing else she could ... ... children break their things, and that they all have to have birthdays and Christmases.” She dipped her brush into a pot of Vandyke brown and painted ... ...upon the bed and biting the mattress. On a certain day, about a week after Christmas of that year, McT eague was on one of the top floors of the music... ...o’clock. The following day was to be a fete day at the kindergar- ten, the Christmas and New Year festivals combined. All that afternoon the little tw...

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...l man had the last of our beer; beef we have 57 Yo n g e not seen for two Christmases, and bread, there’s barely enough for my lady and the children,...