Books with title The Apple Tree: A Ghost Story for Christmas

The meanest man in London, Ebenezer Scrooge thinks only of making money. His heart is cold and indifferent. His world is grim and bitter, bleak and cruel. He torments his clerk, Bob Cratchit, and ignores Cratchit's cripple son, Tiny Tim. Christmas is a "Bah Humbug" to Ebenezer until one snowy Christmas Eve, when strange supernatural things began to happen. Alone in his bedroom, an icy chill invades his soul as Scrooge encounters a ghost, the haunted remains of his departed business partner, Jacob Marley. Dragging the heavy chains that he forged in life, Marley tells Scrooge of the horrors of the After-World and reveals to Ebenezer that he will be visited by three dark Spirits that will bring him a warning. Scrooge dismisses Marley as a bad dream. But when the clock strikes the appointed hour the Spirits began to arrive one-byone. They have come with an unexpected message, a desperate last chance for miserly Scrooge to change his ways before he follows Marley's fate into a frozen grave of endless suffering and regrets. But, as dawn approaches, it may already be too late for Scrooge. Tiny Tim's life is slipping away

The great charm of the story is that it is so essentially Irish. Country and people are so lovingly, so feelingly, so understanding described. The characters are strikingly original creations, finely conceived and consistently developed. Its literary style is all that the most critical would ask. Ronald West stood at the window of his wife's sitting-room, looking across the bright garden-borders to the wide park beyond, and wondering how on earth he should open the subject of which his mind had been full during their morning ride. He had swung off his own horse a few moments before; thrown the bridle to a waiting groom, and made his way round to her stirrup. Then he had laid his hand upon Silverheels' mane, and looking up into his wife's glowing, handsome face, he had said: "May I come to your room for a talk, Helen? I have something very important to tell you."

The Upas Tree - A Christmas Story for all the Year is presented here in a high quality paperback edition. This popular classic work by Florence L. (Florence Louisa) Barclay is in the English language, and may not include graphics or images from the original edition. If you enjoy the works of Florence L. (Florence Louisa) Barclay then we highly recommend this publication for your book collection.