A Christmas Tree

Charles Dickens

Summary

A Christmas Tree by Charles Dickens is offered here in a clean English digital edition prepared for fluent ebook reading. The work stands within classics and gives modern readers direct access to a public-domain classic with navigable structure and a restrained typographic presentation. The opening pages establish the book's atmosphere with this first movement: I have been looking on, this evening, at a merry company of children assembled round that pretty German toy, a Christmas Tree. The tree was planted in the middle of a great round table, and towered high above their heads. It was brilliantly lighted by a multitude of little tapers; and everywhere spa This edition is suited to readers who want a reliable, uncluttered version of the text for study, rediscovery, and sustained reading.

Available since: 06/06/2026.

Print length: 23 pages.

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