A Christmas Tree

by Charles Dickens

Overview

A Christmas Tree is a short story by Charles Dickens. Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 - 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's most memorable fictional characters and is generally regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian period. During his life, his works enjoyed unprecedented fame, and by the twentieth century his literary genius was broadly acknowledged by critics and scholars. His novels and short stories continue to be widely popular.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789635270774
Publisher:	Booklassic
Publication date:	07/07/2015
Series:	A Christmas Tree
Sold by:	PUBLISHDRIVE KFT
Format:	eBook
Pages:	13
File size:	344 KB

About the Author

Charles Dickens, was the foremost English novelist of the Victorian era, as well as a vigorous social campaigner. Considered one of the English language's greatest writers, he was acclaimed for his rich storytelling and memorable characters, and achieved massive worldwide popularity in his lifetime. Later critics, beginning with George Gissing and G. K. Chesterton, championed his mastery of prose, his endless invention of memorable characters and his powerful social sensibilities. Yet he has also received criticism from writers such as George Henry Lewes, Henry James, and Virginia Woolf, who list sentimentality, implausible occurrence and grotesque characters as faults in his oeuvre.

The popularity of Dickens' novels and short stories has meant that none have ever gone out of print. Dickens wrote serialised novels, which was the usual format for fiction at the time, and each new part of his stories would be eagerly anticipated by the reading public.

Other Books of Dickens:
• A Tale of Two Cities (1859)
• Great Expectations (1861)
• David Copperfield (1850)
• A Christmas Carol (1843)
• Oliver Twist (1867)
• Little Dorrit (1857)
• The Haunted House (1859)
• Bleak House (1853)
• Our Mutual Friend (1865)
• The Pickwick Papers (1832)

Date of Birth:

February 7, 1812

Date of Death:

June 18, 1870

Place of Birth:

Portsmouth, England

Place of Death:

Gad's Hill, Kent, England

Education:

Home-schooling; attended Dame School at Chatham briefly and Wellington

Editorial Reviews

Perhaps best described as Dickens's ``other'' Christmas story, this is an elderly narrator's reminiscence of holidays past, each incident inspired by the gifts and toys that decorate the traditional tree. There is a range of appeal in the story itself, from snug memories of beloved toys to the passing along of eerie stories surrounding various childhood haunts. Ingpen renders the story quite accessible by focusing on objects of the period mentioned in the text, and by filtering the memory aspects of the telling through soft sweeps of paint. All ages. (Dec.)

Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly

"For it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child Himself."

"Happy, happy Christmas! That can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!"

"I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year."

Charles Dickens

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