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Carl Krinken, or, The Christmas stocking / by the authors of "The wide, wide world," "Quenchy," "Speculation," et cetera et cetera.
Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Warner, Susan, 1819-1885, author.
- Warner, Anna Bartlett, 1824-1915, author.
- Series:
- Ellen Montgomery's book shelf
- Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood.
- Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Poverty--Juvenile fiction.
- Poverty.
- Christian life--Juvenile fiction.
- Christian life.
- Christmas stories.
- Children's stories.
- Genre:
- Christmas stories.
- Novels.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (159 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates) : color illustrations.
- Edition:
- A New edition.
- Other Title:
- Christmas stocking
- Place of Publication:
- London : George Routledge and Sons, 1872.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- Father Christmas' gift to a poor boy is that each of his parents Christmas presents to him (3 apples, 1 red cent, a purse, shoes, a pine cone, a hymn book, a cork boat, and a stocking) has the power of speech and they tell him the stories of their lives.
- Contents:
- The Christmas stocking
- The story of the three apples
- The story of the penny
- The story of the purse
- The story of the two shoes
- he story of the pine-cone
- The story of the hymn-book
- The story of the cork boat
- The story of the stocking itself.
- Notes:
- Added title page illustrated in colors.
- Publisher's catalogue follows text, 12 pages.
- Reproduction of the original from the Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida.
- Local Notes:
- Prize bookplate pasted inside front cover. Province of Quebec.
- OCLC:
- 905336387
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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