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A close-knit household prepares a traditional Christmas festival while one member urges that a drunken vagrant be ejected to protect the family’s peace. After the man leaves, small domestic mishaps and a musician’s stormy music reveal the moral cost of that refusal: baking and music fail, celebrations falter, and conscience sharpens into remorse. Intimate stage directions and spare dialogue focus the action on the emotional turning point when the family recognizes its neglect of the needy, exploring themes of hospitality, communal responsibility, and the fragile hope that charity might yet redeem the season.

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Title: The lighting of the Christmas tree

Author: Josephine Ludlow Palmer

Selma Lagerlöf

Annie Longfellow Thorp

Editor: Gertrude Buck

Release date: June 28, 2022 [eBook #68417]
Most recently updated: October 18, 2024

Language: English

Original publication: United States: Samuel French, 1917

Credits: Tim Lindell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

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The Lighting of the
Christmas Tree

In the Vassar Series of Plays
Edited by Gertrude Buck

Adapted by Josephine L. Palmer and Annie L. Thorp, by permission of Messrs. Doubleday, Page & Co., from “The Christmas Guest,” by Selma Lagerlof.

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