What christmas is as we grow older

Charles Dickens

32 pages, parution le 13/03/2023

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"Time was, with most of us, when Christmas Day encircling all our limited world like a magic ring, left nothing out for us to miss or seek; bound together all our home enjoyments, affections, and hopes; grouped everything and every one around the Christmas fire; and made the little picture shining in our bright young eyes, complete. Time came, perhaps, all so soon, when our thoughts over-leaped that narrow boundary; when there was some one (very dear, we thought then, very beautiful, and absolutely perfect) wanting to the fulness of our happiness; when we were wanting too (or we thought so, which did just as well) at the Christmas hearth by which that some one sat; and when we intertwined with every wreath and garland of our life that some one's name.That was the time for the bright visionary Christmases which have long arisen from us to show faintly, after summer rain, in the palest edges of the rainbow! That was the time for the beatified enjoyment of the things that were to be, and never were, and yet the things that were so real in our resolute hope that it would be hard to say, now, what realities achieved since, have been stronger!"

L'auteur - Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens (1812-1870) est marqué à jamais par la pauvreté soudaine de ses années d'enfance. Cet immense écrivain et journaliste est un acerbe critique de son époque et de la société anglaise sous la révolution industrielle. On retrouve son regard à la fois réaliste, satirique, psychologique, moralisant et humoristique dans un autre célèbre roman publié au Livre de Poche Jeunesse : David Copperfield (n° 1116).