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A Christmas Greeting: A Series of Stories

Chapter 11: PHILIP GREY,
By H. C. Andersen
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A collection of short, melancholic tales and domestic vignettes that depict children and marginalized adults confronting loneliness, loss, and hardship. Stories alternate between whimsical, uncanny images—animated objects and decaying houses—and stark realism: a cold child seeking warmth, a mother's grief over a sick child, and small acts of kindness that bridge social distance. Settings shift from cramped city rooms to dilapidated households and dreamlike interiors, and recurring themes include compassion, mortality, memory, and the gap between public appearance and inner life. Tone ranges from tender to grim, using plain narrative and vivid symbolism to evoke empathy and moral reflection.

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Title: A Christmas Greeting: A Series of Stories

Author: H. C. Andersen

Release date: January 27, 2010 [eBook #31103]
Most recently updated: May 13, 2022

Language: English

Credits: Jim Adcock

*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A CHRISTMAS GREETING: A SERIES OF STORIES ***

New Juveniles for 1864

PUBLISHED BY

JAMES MILLER,

522 BROADWAY, N. Y.

MAGNET STORIES,

For Summer Days and Winter Nights.

SECOND SERIES.

IMPULSE AND PRINCIPLE,

AND OTHER STORIES.

BY MISS ABBOTT.

THE PRIVATE PURSE,

And other Stories.

BY MRS. S. C. HALL.

TURNS OF FORTUNE

And other Stories.

BY MRS. S. C. HALL.
Published By James Miller, 522 Broadway.

PHILIP GREY,

OR THREE MONTHS AT SEA.

BY PETER PARLEY.

Hans Andersen's Wonderful Tales.

ILLUSTRATED.

HANS ANDERSEN'S STORY BOOK.

ILLUSTRATED.

Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales.

ILLUSTRATED.

GULLIVER'S TRAVELS.

New Edition. Illustrated.

ESOP'S FABLES.

New Edition. Illustrated.

Aunt Carrie's Rhymes for Children.

LIFE OF GEO. WASHINGTON.

With Illustrations by Darley.

THE DREAM OF LITTLE TUK.

Hans Andersen's Library.

A CHRISTMAS GREETING

A Series of Stories,

BY HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN

ILLUSTRATED.
Published by James Miller,
522 Broadway.

A CHRISTMAS GREETING

A Series of Stories,

BY HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN

New York:
(Successor to C.S. Francis & Co.)
Published by James Miller,
522 Broadway.
TO
CHARLES DICKENS, Esq.

I am again in my quiet Danish home, but my thoughts are daily in dear England, where, a few months ago, my many friends transformed for me reality into a charming story.

Whilst occupied with a greater work, there sprung forth—as the flowers spring forth in the forest—seven short stories.* I feel a desire, a longing, to transplant in England the first produce of my poetic garden, as a Christmas greeting: and I send it to you, my dear, noble, Charles Dickens, who by your works had been previously dear to me, and since our meeting have taken root for ever in my heart.

Your hand was the last that pressed mine on England's coast: it was you who from her shores wafted me the last farewell. It is therefore natural that I should send to you, from Denmark, my first greeting again, as sincerely as an affectionate heart can convey it.

Hans Christian Andersen.

Copenhagen. 6th December, 1847.

* The first seven in this volume.