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Loading... The Mansion (original 1910; edition 1911)by Henry Van Dyke, Elizabeth Shippen Green (Illustrator)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. A nice short story that only took a few hours to read. I can see why some people like to read this every year. ( ) 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. no reviews | add a review
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. No library descriptions found. |
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