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- Herausgeber: Zenith Ivory Tower Publications
- Kategorie: Gesellschafts- und Liebesromane
- Sprache: Englisch
🎄 One tree, many memories—a nostalgic journey through the twinkling wonder of Christmas past. In A Christmas Tree, Charles Dickens takes readers on a reflective, almost dreamlike exploration of Christmas through the eyes of a child and the heart of a grown man. As the narrator gazes at a richly decorated tree, each ornament and candle evokes a story, a memory, or a haunting image from holidays long gone. From playful toys to eerie ghost stories, Dickens weaves together the joy, mystery, and melancholy of the season in a lyrical and contemplative piece that's unlike any of his other Christmas tales. More than a simple holiday vignette, A Christmas Tree is a deeply personal and poetic celebration of nostalgia, imagination, and the passage of time. It captures the essence of Victorian Christmas traditions and the bittersweet joy of remembering what once was. 📚 Why this book stands out: A lesser-known but powerful Christmas gem from the master storyteller Combines whimsy, memory, and the supernatural in elegant prose A beautiful short read perfect for a cozy winter evening Reveals Dickens's love for the wonder and mystery of childhood 📚 Perfect for readers who enjoy: Classic holiday stories with emotional depth Reflective, imaginative writing Ghostly and nostalgic elements of Victorian literature Short seasonal tales for fireside reading 📚 What readers are saying: "A Christmas Tree isn't just a story—it's a feeling. Magical, eerie, and unforgettable." – Victorian Christmas Review "You can hear the crackle of the fire and smell the pine—it's that evocative." – Amazon Reviewer 👉 Click "Buy Now" and experience a Christmas tale that glows with memory, imagination, and the enchantment of a child's gaze.
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A Christmas Tree
Charles Dickens
A Christmas Tree
I have been looking on, this evening, at a merry company of children assembled round that pretty German toy, a Christmas Tree. The tree was planted in the middle of a great round table, and towered high above their heads. It was brilliantly lighted by a multitude of little tapers; and everywhere sparkled and glittered with bright objects. There were rosy-cheeked dolls, hiding behind the green leaves; and there were real watches (with movable hands, at least, and an endless capacity of being wound up) dangling from innumerable twigs; there were French-polished tables, chairs, bedsteads, wardrobes, eight-day clocks, and various other articles of domestic furniture (wonderfully made, in tin, at Wolverhampton), perched among the boughs, as if in preparation for some fairy housekeeping; there were jolly, broad-faced little men, much more agreeable in appearance than many real men—and no wonder, for their heads took off, and showed them to be full of sugar-plums; there were fiddles and drums; there were tambourines, books, work-boxes, paint-boxes, sweetmeat-boxes, peep-show boxes, and all kinds of boxes; there were trinkets for the elder girls, far brighter than any grown-up gold and jewels; there were baskets and pincushions in all devices; there were guns, swords, and banners; there were witches standing in enchanted rings of pasteboard, to tell fortunes; there were teetotums, humming-tops, needle-cases, pen-wipers, smelling-bottles, conversation-cards, bouquet-holders; real fruit, made artificially dazzling with gold leaf; imitation apples, pears, and walnuts, crammed with surprises; in short, as a pretty child, before me, delightedly whispered to another pretty child, her bosom friend, “There was everything, and more.” This motley collection of odd objects, clustering on the tree like magic fruit, and flashing back the bright looks directed towards it from every side—some of the diamond-eyes admiring it were hardly on a level with the table, and a few were languishing in timid wonder on the bosoms of pretty mothers, aunts, and nurses—made a lively realisation of the fancies of childhood; and set me thinking how all the trees that grow and all the things that come into existence on the earth, have their wild adornments at that well-remembered time.
Being now at home again, and alone, the only person in the house awake, my thoughts are drawn back, by a fascination which I do not care to resist, to my own childhood. I begin to consider, what do we all remember best upon the branches of the Christmas Tree of our own young Christmas days, by which we climbed to real life.
Straight, in the middle of the room, cramped in the freedom of its growth by no encircling walls or soon-reached ceiling, a shadowy tree arises; and, looking up into the dreamy brightness of its top— for I observe in this tree the singular property that it appears to grow downward towards the earth—I look into my youngest Christmas recollections!
