WHAT CHRISTMAS IS AS WE GROW OLDER and HOW THE CAPTAIN MADE CHRISTMAS
1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales
Jon Hagadorn
4.5 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 10 December 2023
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
What Christmas Is As We Grow Older by Charles Dickens is a bittersweet look at Christmas from the viewpoint of a man who has suffered a loss of loved ones.
How The Captain Made Christmas by Thomas Nelson Page tells the story of a group of men riding a train who begin telling stories in the club car about the old conductor who befriended them one Christmas
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| 0:00.0 | And the Yeah, The You're going to be. Welcome back everyone to |
| 0:55.6 | to one thousand one classic short stories and tales. This is your host |
| 0:58.7 | John Hagadorn. I have two great Christmas stories for you today. |
| 1:03.8 | The first is called What Christmas is as we grow older by Charles Dickens and the second |
| 1:09.9 | is called How the Captain Made Christmas by Thomas Nelson Page. |
| 1:15.0 | And now our first story, what Christmas is as we grow older. |
| 1:20.0 | Dickens wrote this Christmas vignette for his two-penny magazine, |
| 1:27.1 | household words in 1851. He published Reader Interest Stories and |
| 1:31.8 | essays on a weekly basis between 1850 and |
| 1:34.4 | 1859, but his Christmas stories were always a highlight. |
| 1:39.2 | In this story, Dickens intertwines his disillusionment with his return to a youthful optimism. |
| 1:44.9 | It's really very personal and heartfelt coming after the deaths of his father and daughter. |
| 1:50.8 | I think we could benefit from its plea to stop complaining, accept and |
| 1:54.6 | understand the past, and savor Christmas as a time for reconciliation. |
| 1:59.5 | And now what Christmas is as we grow older by Charles Dickens. |
| 2:05.0 | Time was with most of us when Christmas Day encircling all our limited world like a |
| 2:11.6 | magic ring left nothing up for us to miss or seek. |
| 2:16.1 | Bound together all our home enjoyments, affections, and hopes. |
| 2:20.6 | Grouped everything and every one around the Christmas fire and made the little |
| 2:25.7 | picture shining in our bright young eyes complete. Time came perhaps also, all so soon, when our thoughts overleaped at narrow boundary. |
| 2:37.0 | When there was someone very dear, we thought then, very beautiful and absolutely perfect. |
| 2:44.4 | Wanting to the fullness of our happiness, when we were wanting to, or we thought so, which |
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