Friday, January 7, 2011

A Child's Dream of a Star by Charles Dickens

Someone gave me a copy of The Complete Ghost Stories of Charles Dickens (and you thought his only specters were Jacob Marley and the trio of Christmases of Past, Present, and Future), but last night I read a story in that book that didn’t seem to quite fit the collection.

As I was reading, A Child’s Dream of a Star, I kept waiting for the story to turn delightfully ugly, but it was a simple, innocent, and enjoyable read to the expected end, although it does deal with death.

A much more appropriate reading for Julian Calendar Christmas than a vampire saga.

Many sources offer this story online.

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