Charles Dickens

This beginning-part is not made out of anybody's head, you know. It's real. You must believe this beginning-part more than what comes after, else you won't understand how what comes after came to be written. You must believe it all; but you must believe this most, please. I am the editor of it. Bob Redforth (he's my cousin, and shaking the table on purpose) wanted to be the editor of it; but I said he shouldn't because he couldn't.

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Il lui repugnait beaucoup d'avoir la preseance sur tant de membres honorables de la famille, en commencant la premiere des histoires qu'ils allaient raconter chacun a leur tour, assis en demi-cercle aupres du feu de Noel, et, modestement, il suggera qu'il serait plus convenable que ce fut d'abord John, "notre estimable hote," dont il demandait a porter la sante. "Quant a lui, dit-il, il etait si peu fait a se mettre, en avant, qu'en verite. ..."

A Christmas carol -- A Christmas tree -- What Christmas is as we grow older -- The poor relation's story -- The child's story -- The schoolboy's story -- Nobody's story -- The battle of life -- Holiday romance -- The chimes -- The cricket on the hearth -- The haunted man and the ghost's bargain -- Oliver Twist or The parish boy's progress.

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