Loved itit's just lovely it's just so lovely I just really loved the Christmas High Lings
The Christmas hirelings (1894)
Others: Positive The Christmas Hirelings is a short novel by English author Mary Elizabeth Braddon, first published in 1894. Full of vintage festive cheer, this engaging tale following the adventures of Moppet and her friends when ageing, lonely Sir John Penlyon takes the unprecedented step of opening his manor house doors to three young children over the Christmas holiday season – but can the bitter old man succeed in opening his heart as well? A charming, heart-warming tale, bringing with it a little Christmas magic, and a message of kindness and goodwill, as relevant to our modern times as when it was first published. An unmissable addition to your festive book collection.
- Length:
- 261 pages
Lists: …
Similar books
1 of 6
The Remains of the Day
Kazuo Ishiguro
1989 · 245 pages · 7 reviews
Others: Mostly positiveIn the summer of 1956, Stevens, the ageing butler of Darlington Hall, embarks on a leisurely holiday that will take him deep into the countryside and into his past . . .A contemporary classic, The Remains of the Day is Kazuo Ishiguro's beautiful and haunting evocation of life between the wars in a Great English House, of lost causes and lost love.
Why?
What made the match, strongest first
Similar descriptions58%Books and Things loved bothPersonalize your recommendations42%Once upon a Christmas Tree
Johnny DePalma
2010 · 1 review
Others: PositiveOnce Upon a Christmas Tree is the heart-warming tale of two love-struck ornaments who have been placed at opposite ends of an enchanted pine. One, a Small Wooden Soldier, and the other, a Tiny Winter Dancer. With only a very short window of Christmas Magic, the Soldier must escape his decorative hook and reunite with his one true love before Midnight - Christmas Day.
Mariana
Monica Dickens
1940 · 349 pages · 4 reviews
Others: Leaning positiveMonica Dickens's first book, published in 1940, could easily have been called Mariana - an Englishwoman. For that is what it is: the story of a young English girl's growth towards maturity in the 1930s. We see Mary at school in Kensington and on holiday in Somerset; her attempt at drama school; her year in Paris learning dressmaking and getting engaged to the wrong man; her time as a secretary and companion; and her romance with Sam.
Why?
What made the match, strongest first
Similar descriptions53%Books and Things loved bothPersonalize your recommendations47%Lost in the funhouse
John Barth
1968 · 200 pages · 1 review
Others: PositiveA collection of 14 short stories.
The last hurrah of the Golden Horde
Norman Spinrad
1970 · 215 pages · 1 review
Others: NegativeShort story collection
Wandering Earth
Cixin Liu
2013 · 464 pages · 1 review
Others: PositiveCollection of short stories.
Loved it