The Holly-Tree
Charles Dickens
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Description
The Holly-Tree, in three branches, is shown transcribed from the 1894 Chapman and Hall edition of Christmas Stories. No author is named in the pages present. The first branch, Myself, opens with a confession: the narrator has kept one secret in his life, and the secret is that he is a bashful man by nature.
That shyness, he says, explains countless places not visited and calls not made. His object is a plain account of being snowed up at the Holly-Tree Inn, a house of good entertainment for man and beast. The journey began in grief, after he parted forever from Angela Leath, who preferred his bosom friend Edwin, and resolved to sail for America.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Charles Dickens |
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| COLLECTION | BOOKS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 74 KB |
| LICENSE | PUBLIC_DOMAIN |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | Project Gutenberg |