A Round of Stories by the Christmas Fire
By: Charles Dickens with William Moy Thomas ... [et al.] ; edited by Melisa Klimaszewski
Series: Hesperus classics
Publisher: Hesperus; Hesperus Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 134
ISBN-13: 9781843911647
Description: A collection of stories, being an example of the "varied thematic and narrative styles of Victorian storytelling" (p. xi), which may be told around a Christmas fire, but are not actually related to Christmas.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The poor relation's story / by Charles Dickens; title: The child's story / by Charles Dickens; title: Somebody's story / by William Moy Thomas; title: The old nurse's story / by Elizabeth Gaskell; title: The host's story / by Edmund Ollier; title: The grandfather's story / by Reverend James White; title: The charwoman's story / by Edmund Saul Dixon; title: The deaf playmate's story / by Harriet Martineau; title: The guest's story / by Samuel Sidney; title: The mother's story / by Eliza Griffiths