HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.There is probably a smell of roasted chestnuts and other good comfortable things all the time, for we are telling Winter Stories…This heart-warming collection of festive short stories and novellas perfectly captures the spirit of Christmas. Focused on the journeys taken through life and the inherent goodness of mankind, these tales explore the true meaning of Christmas and revel in the joyful season of goodwill. Imbued with a moral message, Dickens’s writing gives a voice to the plight of working-class families during a period of social and political change in Victorian England.With such tales as ‘The Chimes’, ‘The Cricket on the Hearth’ and ‘What Christmas Is, As We Grow Older’, this is a beautiful collection for Dickens fans, and a wonderful companion for all those who cherish ‘A Christmas Carol’.
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Чарльз Диккенс. Christmas Stories
CHRISTMAS STORIES. Charles Dickens
Copyright
History of Collins
Life & Times. About the Author
The Victorian Era
Christmas Stories
CHAPTER 1. First Quarter
CHAPTER 2. The Second Quarter
CHAPTER 3. Third Quarter
CHAPTER 4. Fourth Quarter
CHAPTER 1. Chirp the First
CHAPTER 2. Chirp the Second
CHAPTER 3. Chirp the Third
CHAPTER 1. In The Old City of Rochester
CHAPTER 2. The Story of Richard Doubledick
CHAPTER 3. The Road
CLASSIC LITERATURE: WORDS AND PHRASES adapted from the Collins English Dictionary
About the Publisher
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“And how hard, father, to grow old, and die, and think we might have cheered and helped each other! How hard in all our lives to love each other; and to grieve, apart, to see each other working, changing, growing old and grey. Even if I got the better of it, and forgot him (which I never could), oh father dear, how hard to have a heart so full as mine is now, and live to have it slowly drained out every drop, without the recollection of one happy moment of a woman’s life, to stay behind and comfort me, and make me better!”
Trotty sat quite still. Meg dried her eyes, and said more gaily: that is to say, with here a laugh, and there a sob, and here a laugh and sob together:
