LULU'S LIBRARY: Complete Collection (Illustrated Edition). Луиза Мэй Олкотт

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       Louisa May Alcott

      Lulu's Library: Complete Collection (Illustrated Edition)

      30+ Tales for Children: The Skipping Shoes, Eva's Visit to Fairyland, Mermaids, A Christmas Dream...

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      2017 OK Publishing

      ISBN 978-80-7583-950-3

       Volume I:

       A Christmas Dream

       The Candy Country

       Naughty Jocko

       The Skipping Shoes

       Cockyloo

       Rosy's Journey

       How They Ran Away

       The Fairy Box

       A Hole In The Wall

       The Piggy Girl

       The Three Frogs

       Baa! Baa!

       Volume II:

       The Frost King And How The Fairies Conquered Him

       Lilybell and Thistledown

       Ripple, The Water Sprite

       Eva's Visit To Fairyland

       Sunshine, And Her Brothers And Sisters

       The Fairy Spring

       Queen Aster

       The Brownie And The Princess

       Mermaids

       Little Bud

       The Flower's Story

       Volume III:

       Recollections Of My Childhood

       A Christmas Turkey, And How It Came

       The Silver Party

       The Blind Lark

       Music and Macaroni

       The Little Red Purse

       Sophie's Secret

       Dolly's Bedstead

       Trudel's Siege

       Volume I:

       Table of Contents

      A Christmas Dream

       Table of Contents

      "I'm so tired of Christmas I wish there never would be another one!" exclaimed a discontented-looking little girl, as she sat idly watching her mother arrange a pile of gifts two days before they were to be given.

      "Why, Effie, what a dreadful thing to say! You are as bad as old Scrooge; and I'm afraid something will happen to you, as it did to him, if you don't care for dear Christmas," answered mamma, almost dropping the silver horn she was filling with delicious candies.

      "Who was Scrooge? What happened to him?" asked Effie, with a glimmer of interest in her listless face, as she picked out the sourest lemon-drop she could find; for nothing sweet suited her just then.

      "He was one of Dickens's best people, and you can read the charming story some day. He hated Christmas until a strange dream showed him how dear and beautiful it was, and made a better man of him."

      "I shall read it; for I like dreams, and have a great many curious ones myself. But they don't keep me from being tired of Christmas," said Effie, poking discontentedly among the sweeties for something worth eating.

      "Why are you tired of what should be the happiest time of all the year?" asked mamma, anxiously.

      "Perhaps I shouldn't be if I had something new. But it is always the same, and there isn't any more surprise about it. I always find heaps of goodies in my stocking. Don't like some of them, and soon get tired of those I do like. We always have a great dinner, and I eat too much, and feel ill next day. Then there is a Christmas tree somewhere, with a doll on top, or a stupid old Santa Claus, and children dancing and screaming over bonbons and toys that break, and shiny things that are of no use. Really, mamma, I've had so many Christmases all alike that I don't think I _can_ bear another one." And Effie laid herself flat on the sofa, as if the mere idea was too much for her.

      Her mother laughed at her despair, but was sorry to see her little girl so discontented, when she had everything to make her happy, and had known but ten Christmas days.

      "Suppose we