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The Heavenly Christmas Tree (1876)

by Fiódor Dostoiévski

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I am a novelist, and I suppose I have made up this story. I write 'I suppose,' though I know for a fact that I have made it up, but yet I keep fancying that it must have happened somewhere at some time, that it must have happened on Christmas Eve in some great town in a time of terrible frost. Read in English, unabridged.… (more)
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Two very short Christmas stories. The Heavenly Christmas Tree was much the better one, a poignant vignette of a poor boy rejected by others at Christmas in the freezing cold (4/5). The Christmas Tree and the Wedding was also about a put upon small boy, but weaker and not very Christmassy. ( )
  john257hopper | Dec 29, 2020 |
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This story is the second part of section II, from A Writer's Diary, January 1876. The first part of section II is known as "The Boy with His Hand Out"
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I am a novelist, and I suppose I have made up this story. I write 'I suppose,' though I know for a fact that I have made it up, but yet I keep fancying that it must have happened somewhere at some time, that it must have happened on Christmas Eve in some great town in a time of terrible frost. Read in English, unabridged.

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