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The Mansion by Henry Van Dyke
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The Mansion (original 1910; edition 1911)

by Henry Van Dyke, Elizabeth Shippen Green (Illustrator)

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Rich and miserly John Weightman dreams one night that he has died and is traveling to the Celestial City, where each person is rewarded with a mansion according to how they lived their life.
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Title:The Mansion
Authors:Henry Van Dyke
Other authors:Elizabeth Shippen Green (Illustrator)
Info:Harper & Brothers (1911), Edition: First Edition, First Printing, Hardcover, 45 pages
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A nice short story that only took a few hours to read. I can see why some people like to read this every year. ( )
  bread2u | Jul 1, 2020 |
A pillar of the community, a man of rectitude and charity, differs with his son about several matters. The son wants to give up business for a while and to assist a friend of his in need, both of which the father disapproves of. On Christmas Eve, the father dreams of his arrival in Heaven, which shows him the true worth of his life and actions.

Van Dyke wrote several inspiring fables of this sort. This one takes aim at the self-satisfied and comfortable. The message is still apt. ( )
  Bjace | Sep 15, 2013 |
Perfectly pedantic and suired to the turn of the century. I enjoyed it, perhaps especially because it was a graduation gift in 1914 from three spinsters. It's an admonition about where you should focus your life's works, so this was grand. The best graduation present ever. LOL ( )
  maedb | Jun 2, 2011 |
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Rich and miserly John Weightman dreams one night that he has died and is traveling to the Celestial City, where each person is rewarded with a mansion according to how they lived their life.

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A rich man's son asks for financial help for a friend, which is turned down because it will bring back no profit. And the rich man is sticken (or falls asleep) and dreams of heaven and where his lifetime of good works will get him.
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