Hesperus Classics: The Holly-Tree Inn (Paperback)

from anglemark

NOTE: This review contains mild spoilers Short story collections written as a series of related tales with a frame to connect them is not a new concept. Nor was it new in 1855 when The Holly-Tree Inn was written and published, in the Christmas issue of Charles Dickens' perodical Household Words. ...

from mavinger

The Hesperus Classics edition of this set of short stories had a very helpful forward and end notes plus some added information on the authors. I knew nothing of the Dickens Christmas periodicals so this information was invaluable. The subjects of the stories vary greatly, but they have been tied...

from Lman

This charming compendium is, we are told in the informative introduction to this Hesperus Classic's edition of The Holly-Tree Inn, the sixth special Christmas issue of Charles Dickens' Household Words - the first of these I have ever read. And a classic it can truly be said. Comprised simply of s...

from katylit

I was given The Holly-Tree Inn by the Hesperus Press in an Early Reviewers program and I think they have done themselves proud with this delightful little book. It is a collection of stories, written by Charles Dickens and some of his contemporaries for a Christmas edition of his periodical House...