This book begins, "My Dear Children, I am very anxious that you should know something about the History of Jesus Christ. For everybody ought to know about Him. No one ever lived who was so good, so kind, so gentle, and so sorry for all people who did wrong, or were in any way ill or miserable, as He was." With simple reverence, Charles Dickens narrates a retelling of the New Testament in a manner geared towards his own young children, the only readers he thought would ever hear it. This was the story he read aloud to his children at every Christmas. He forbade publication during his own lifetime, and it was passed down as a guarded family secret. It was only after his last son died that the manuscript was finally published. Written during the same time period that he was completing David Copperfield. Gorgeous gift book with gold embossed cover is printed on thick, raw edged paper. A beautiful book! 5 x 7" size.
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