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A set of eight Christmas-themed short stories explores domestic scenes and moral dilemmas in middle-class and struggling households. Through episodes of social gatherings, unexpected reversals, acts of generosity, and personal reckonings, it contrasts pride and humility, trust and betrayal, and the consolations of faith and community. Narratives focus on family relationships and festive customs, often centering on pivotal evenings or events that reveal character and lead toward reconciliation, repentance, or social revelation. The pieces vary in tone from sentimental to didactic and include both intimate domestic portraiture and a longer account of a religious pageant, offering varied reflections on charity, duty, and seasonal compassion.

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Title: Christmas stories

Author: Mary Jane Holmes

Release date: January 14, 2023 [eBook #69800]
Most recently updated: October 19, 2024

Language: English

Original publication: United States: G.W. Carleton & Co, 1884

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POPULAR NOVELS.
BY
MRS. MARY J. HOLMES.
Tempest and Sunshine.
English Orphans.
Homestead on Hillside.
’Lena Rivers.
Meadow Brook.
Dora Deane.
Cousin Maude.
Marian Grey.
Edith Lyle.
Daisy Thornton.
Chateau d’Or.
Queenie Hetherton (New).
Darkness and Daylight.
Hugh Worthington.
Cameron Pride.
Rose Mather.
Ethelyn’s Mistake.
Milbank.
Edna Browning.
West Lawn.
Mildred.
Forrest House.
Madeline.
Christmas Stories.
“Mrs. Holmes is a peculiarly pleasant and fascinating writer. Her books are always entertaining, and she has the rare faculty of enlisting the sympathy and affections of her readers, and of holding their attention to her pages with deep and absorbing interest.”
All published uniform with this volume. Price $1.50 each. Sold everywhere, and sent free by mail on receipt of price,
BY
G. W. CARLETON & Co., Publishers,
New York.

Engd. by Geo E. Perine, N. York

CHRISTMAS STORIES.

BY
MRS. MARY J. HOLMES,
AUTHOR OF
TEMPEST AND SUNSHINE.—DARKNESS AND DAYLIGHT.—MILBANK.—ENGLISH ORPHANS.—’LENA RIVERS.—ETHELYN’S MISTAKE.—HUGH WORTHINGTON.—MADELINE.—WEST LAWN—MARIAN GREY.—EDNA BROWNING, ETC.
WITH A STEEL PORTRAIT OF THE AUTHOR.
NEW YORK.
G. W. Carleton & Co., Publishers.
LONDON: S. LOW, SON & CO.
MDCCCLXXXV.
Copyright, 1884,
By DANIEL HOLMES,
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
Stereotyped by
Samuel Stodder,
42 Dey Street, N. Y.
TO
MISS MARY W. JEWETT,
(of Clarkson, N. Y.)
WHO HAS BEEN SO LONG IDENTIFIED
WITH THE
PARISH OF ST. LUKE’S,
AND WHO IS
ALMOST AS MUCH A PART OF THE CHRISTMAS FESTIVAL AS THE CHRISTMAS-TREE ITSELF,
I DEDICATE THESE STORIES,
SOME OF WHICH HAVE IN THEM MORE OF FACT THAN OF FICTION.