The Christmas Hirelings (Summarized Edition) Enriched edition. A Victorian Christmas drama of a lonely household, childhood innocence, and miraculous healing that redeems a hardened heart.
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Ja
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Ja
Book Tropes
Christmas Romance + weitere
Altersempfehlung
ab 5 Jahr(e)
Erscheinungsdatum
10.01.2026
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Quickie ClassicsVerlag
Quickie ClassicsSeitenzahl
66 (Printausgabe)
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871 KB
Sprache
Englisch
EAN
8596547879534
The Christmas Hirelings traces a misanthropic country gentleman who, to stave off winter loneliness, hires three poor children to enliven his desolate house; their presence-especially the youngest-thaws his severity and prepares a later revelation of kinship and contrition. In lucid, gently ironic prose, Braddon fuses the moral warmth of the Victorian Christmas tale with her characteristic undercurrent of secrecy and social performance, a late-Victorian contribution to the era's Christmas annuals that weds sentiment to critique. Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1835-1915), renowned for Lady Audley's Secret, moved fluidly between sensation fiction and domestic realism while editing popular magazines and holiday numbers. Her theatrical background and editorial eye for seasonal storytelling shaped this novella's interest in masquerade, charity, and middle-class respectability, reframing sensational devices as a humane inquiry into remorse, guardianship, and the making of family. Recommended to readers who relish Dickensian festivity tempered by psychological nuance, The Christmas Hirelings offers compact seasonal reading with lasting resonance. Scholars and book clubs alike will value its deft plotting, moral clarity without mawkishness, and quietly radical insistence that love can be learned through practice.
Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the author's voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readable-distilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.
Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the author's voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readable-distilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.
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