A collection of several Christmas stories including Mrs Perkin's Ball and The Rose and the Ring. Great reading over the festive holiday's.
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- The Christmas Books
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- William Makepeace Thackeray
- MRS. PERKINS'S BALL.
- THE MULLIGAN (OF BALLYMULLIGAN), AND HOW WE WENT TO MRS. PERKINS'S BALL.
- MR. AND MRS. PERKINS, THEIR HOUSE, AND THEIR YOUNG PEOPLE.
- EVERYBODY BEGINS TO COME, BUT ESPECIALLY MR. MINCHIN.
- THE BALL–ROOMDOOR.
- LADY BACON, THE MISS BACONS, MR. FLAM.
- MR. LARKINS.
- MISS BUNION.
- MR. HICKS.
- MISS MEGGOT.
- MISS RANVILLE, REV. MR. TOOP, MISS MULLINS, MR. WINTER.
- MISS JOY, MR. AND MRS. JOY, MR. BOTTER.
- MR. RANVILLE RANVILLE AND JACK HUBBARD.
- MRS. TROTTER, MISS TROTTER, MISS TOADY, LORD METHUSELAH.
- MR. BEAUMORIS, MR. GRIG, MR. FLYNDERS.
- CAVALIER SEUL.
- M.CANAILLARD, CHEVALIER OF THE LEGION OF HONOR.
- LIEUTENANT BARON DE BOBWITZ.
- THE BOUDOIR.
- MR. SMITH, MR. BROWN, MISS BUSTLETON.
- GRAND POLKA.
- THE SUPPER.
- AFTER SUPPER.
- THE MULLIGAN AND MR. PERKINS.
- OUR STREET
- BY MR. M.A TITMARSH.
- OUR HOUSE IN OUR STREET
- THE BUNGALOW—CAPTAIN AND MRS. BRAGG.
- LEVANT HOUSE CHAMBERS.
- MR. RUMBOLD, A.R.A., AND MISS RUMBOLD.
- SOME OF THE SERVANTS IN OUR STREET.
- WHAT SOMETIMES HAPPENS IN OUR STREET.
- SOMEBODY WHOMNOBODY KNOWS.
- THE MAN IN POSSESSION.
- THE LION OF THE STREET.
- THE DOVE OF OUR STREET.
- THE BUMPSHERS.
- JOLLY NEWBOY, ESQ., M.P.
- ALONZO.
- THE DUCHESS.
- DOCTOR BIRCH AND HIS YOUNG FRIENDS
- by MR. M.A. TITMARSH
- THE DOCTOR AND HIS STAFF.
- THE COCK OF THE SCHOOL.
- THE DEAR BROTHERS.
- A MELODRAMA IN SEVERAL ROUNDS.
- THE DOCTOR.
- MR. TIPPER, Uncle to the Masters Boxall.
- BOXALL MAJOR, BOXALL MINOR, BROWN, JONES, SMITH, ROBINSON, TIFFIN MINIMUS.
- THE LITTLE SCHOOL–ROOM.
- A HOPELESS CASE.
- A WORD ABOUT MISS BIRCH.
- A TRAGEDY.
- THE DRAMA OUGHT TO BE REPRESENTED IN ABOUT SIX ACTS.
- BRIGGS IN LUCK.
- Enter the Knife–boy.—Hamper for Briggses! Master Brown.—Hurray, Tom Briggs! I'll lend you my knife.
- A YOUNG FELLOW WHO IS PRETTY SURE TO SUCCEED.
- DUVAL THE PIRATE.
- THE DORMITORIES.
- A CAPTURE AND A RESCUE.
- THE GARDEN,
- WHERE THE PARLOR–BOARDERS GO.
- THE OLD PUPIL.
- EPILOGUE.
- THE KICKLEBURYS ON THE RHINE.
- BY MR. M.A. TITMARSH
- PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION:
- BEING AN ESSAY ON THUNDER AND SMALL BEER.
- "THE KICKLEBURYS ABROAD."
- THE KICKLEBURYS ON THE RHINE.
- THE ROSE AND THE RING:
- A FIRE–SIDE PANTOMIME FOR GREAT AND SMALL CHILDREN.
- BY MR. M.A. TITMARSH
- PRELUDE
- I. SHOWS HOW THE ROYAL FAMILY SAT DOWN TO BREAKFAST
- II. HOW KING VALOROSO GOT THE CROWN, AND PRINCE GIGLIO WENT WITHOUT.
- III. TELLS WHO THE FAIRY BLACKSTICK WAS, AND WHO WERE EVER SO MANY GRAND PERSONAGES BESIDES.
- IV. HOW BLACKSTICK WAS NOT ASKED TO THE PRINCESS ANGELICA'S CHRISTENING.
- V. HOW PRINCESS ANGELICA TOOK A LITTLE MAID.
- VI. HOW PRINCE GIGLIO BEHAVED HIMSELF.
- VII. HOW GIGLIO AND ANGELICA HAD A QUARREL.
- VIII. HOW GRUFFANUFF PICKED THE FAIRY RING UP, AND PRINCE BULBO CAME TO COURT.
- IX. HOW BETSINDA GOT THE WARMING PAN.
- X. HOW KING VALOROSO WAS IN A DREADFUL PASSION.
- XI. WHAT GRUFFANUFF DID TO GIGLIO AND BETSINDA.
- XII. HOW BETSINDA FLED, AND WHAT BECAME OF HER.
- XIII. HOW QUEEN ROSALBA CAME TO THE CASTLE OF THE BOLD COUNT HOGGINARMO.
- XIV. WHAT BECAME OF GIGLIO.
- XV. WE RETURN TO ROSALBA.
- XVI. HOW HEDZOFF RODE BACK AGAIN TO KING GIGLIO.
- XVII. HOW A TREMENDOUS BATTLE TOOK PLACE, AND WHO WON IT.
- XVIII. HOW THEY ALL JOURNEYED BACK TO THE CAPITAL.
- XIX. AND NOW WE COME TO THE LAST SCENE IN THE PANTOMIME.
- Footnotes