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• A Christmas Carol Index

  | | A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens [1843] | This is a new scan of A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens' best-loved book, one that…

• A Christmas Carol: Advertisements

  [These two pages of advertisements appeared at the end of the original book, published in 1843. They are included for completeness.—JBH]…

• A Christmas Carol: Contents
• A Christmas Carol: Page Index

  Index A Christmas Carol: Page Index page 1 page 2 page 3 page 4 page 5 page 6 page 7 page 8 page 9 page 10 page 11 page 12 page 13 page 14…

• A Christmas Carol: Preface

  I HAVE endeavoured in this Ghostly little book, to raise the Ghost of an Idea, which shall not put my readers out of humour with…

• A Christmas Carol: Stave Five. The End of It

  Yes! and the bedpost was his own. The bed was his own, the room was his own.

• A Christmas Carol: Stave Four. The Last of the Spirits

  The Phantom slowly, gravely, silently, approached. When it came near him, Scrooge bent down upon his knee; for in the very air through…

• A Christmas Carol: Stave I. Marley's Ghost

  Marley was dead: to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk…

• A Christmas Carol: Stave Three. The Second of the Three Spirits

  Awaking in the middle of a prodigiously tough snore, and sitting up in bed to get his thoughts together, Scrooge had no occasion to be told…

• A Christmas Carol: Stave Two. The First of the Three Spirits

  When Scrooge awoke, it was so dark, that looking out of bed, he could scarcely distinguish the transparent window from the opaque walls of…

• A Christmas Carol: Title Page
• A Study of Fairy Tales: Chapter I. The Worth of Fairy Tales

  In olde dayes of the kyng Arthour, Of which that Britouns speken gret honour, Al was this lond fulfilled of fayrie; The elf-queen, with hir…

• A Study of Fairy Tales: Chapter II. Principles of Selection for Fairy Tales

  All our troubles come from doing that in which we have no interest.--EPICTETUS. That is useful for every man which is conformable to his…

• A Study of Fairy Tales: Chapter III. The Telling of Fairy Tales

  The telling of stories refreshes the mind as a bath refreshes the body. It gives exercise to the intellect and its powers. It tests the…

• A Study of Fairy Tales: Chapter IV. The History of Fairy Tales

  The gods of ancient mythology were changed into the demi-gods and heroes of ancient poetry, and these demi-gods again became, at a later…

• A Study of Fairy Tales: Chapter V. Classes of Fairy Tales

  But the fact that after having been repeated for two thousand years, a story still possesses a perfectly fresh attraction for a child of…

• A Study of Fairy Tales: Chapter VI. Sources of Material f...

  Shall we permit our children, without scruple, to hear any fables composed by any authors indifferently, and so to receive into their minds…

• A Study of Fairy Tales: Contents
• A Study of Fairy Tales: Introduction

  THE fairy tale has a place in the training of children which common sense and a sympathetic attitude toward childhood will not deny. Some…

• A Study of Fairy Tales: Preface

  ONE of the problems of present-day education is to secure for the entire school system, from the kindergarten to the university, a…

• A Study of Fairy Tales: Title Page
• A Visit from St. Nick Index

  | | A Visit From St. Nicholas by Clement C. Moore [1823] | This is a collection of 19th century editions of the Christmas classic poem, A…

• A Visit from St. Nick: Comparison

  This is a parallel presentation of the three texts of the poem A Visit from St. Nicholas. It will be seen that aside from minor punctuation…

• A Visit from St. Nick: First Book Publication
• A Visit from St. Nick: First Newspaper Publication
• A Visit from St. Nick: Manuscript

  A Visit from St. Nicholas, from a manuscript copy written by Clement C. Moore in 1862.

• Book of Nature Myths: Contents.
• Book of Nature Myths: How Fire Was Brought To The Indians.
• Book of Nature Myths: How Flax Was Given To Men.

  "You have been on the mountain a long time," said the wife of the hunter. "Yes, wife, and I have seen the most marvelous sight in all the…

• Book of Nature Myths: How Summer Came To The Earth.

  This is a Native American origin myth — likely from the Ojibwe or a related Algonquian tradition, given the name Adjidaumo (the Ojibwe word…

• Book of Nature Myths: How The Blossoms Came To The Heather.

  ONLY a little while after the earth was made, the trees and plants came to live on it. They were happy and contented. The lily was glad…

• Book of Nature Myths: How The Quail Became A Snipe.

  "IT is lonely living in this great tree far away from the other birds," said the owl to herself. "I will get some one to come and live with…

• Book of Nature Myths: How The Raven Helped Men.

  This is a Native American-style pourquoi tale — an origin story explaining how natural phenomena came to be — told in the tradition of…

• Book of Nature Myths: Preface

  IN preparing the Book of Nature Myths the desire has been to make a second reader which would be adapted to the child's interest, ability…

• Book of Nature Myths: The Children In The Moon.

  This is a short fantasy story in the fairy-tale tradition, functioning as an origin myth and literary expansion of the "Jack and Jill"…

• Book of Nature Myths: The Face Of The Manito.

  MANY years ago the manito of the Indians lived in the sun. Every morning the wise men of the tribe went to the top of a mountain, and as…

• Book of Nature Myths: The Lantern And The Fan.

  This is a Japanese folktale in the riddle-task tradition, where a clever challenge drives the plot toward a warm domestic resolution. A…

• Book of Nature Myths: The Story Of The Bees And The Flies.

  THERE were once two tribes of little people who lived near together. They were not at all alike, for one of the tribes looked for food and…

• Book of Nature Myths: The Story Of The Earth And The Sky.

  This is a creation myth or etiological folktale in the tradition of origin stories found across many oral cultures. It explains how the sky…

• Book of Nature Myths: The Story Of The First Ants.

  "THIS jar is full of smoked flesh," said one voice. "This has fish, this is full of honey, and that one is almost running over with oil,"…

• Book of Nature Myths: The Story Of The First Butterflies.

  THE Great Spirit thought, "By and by I will make men, but first I will make a home for them. It shall be very bright and beautiful. There…

• Book of Nature Myths: The Story Of The First Diamonds.

  THE chief of an Indian tribe had two sons whom he loved very dearly. This chief was at war with another tribe, and one dark night two of…

• Book of Nature Myths: The Story Of The First Emeralds.

  IN the days of long ago there was a time when there were no emeralds on the earth. Men knew where to find other precious stones. They could…

• Book of Nature Myths: The Story Of The First Frog.

  This is a Native American origin story — a pourquoi tale in the folk tradition — explaining why frogs cry in marshes on summer nights. Two…

• Book of Nature Myths: The Story Of The First Grasshopper.

  IN a country that is far away there once lived a young man called Tithonus. He was strong and beautiful. Light of heart and light of foot…

• Book of Nature Myths: The Story Of The First Hummingbird.

  PART I. THE GREAT FIRE-MOUNTAIN. LONG, long ago, when the earth was very young, two hunters were traveling through the forest.

• Book of Nature Myths: The Story Of The First Mockingbird.

  FAR away in the forest there once lived the most cruel man on all the earth. He did not like the Indians, and he said to himself, "Some day…

• Book of Nature Myths: The Story Of The First Moles.

  A RICH man and a poor man once owned a field together. The rich man owned the northern half, and the poor man owned the southern half. Each…

• Book of Nature Myths: The Story Of The First Pearls.

  THERE was once a man named Runoia, and when he walked along the pathways of the forest, the children would say shyly to one another, "Look…

• Book of Nature Myths: The Story Of The First Snowdrops.

  This is a short allegorical prose tale in the tradition of personified-nature mythology, likely drawing on Native American or general…

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