Christmas Stories

Get into the holiday spirit with these heartwarming stories from beloved author Benjamin Leopold Farjeon.

Full of timeless themes of love, family, and redemption, these tales are perfect for reading aloud to children and adults alike on those chilly winter nights.

Synopsis

In the heart of a very maze of courts and lanes Stoney-alley proclaims itself.

It is one of multitude of deformed thoroughfares, which are huddled together--by whim, or caprice, or in mockery--in a populous part of the City, in utter defiance of all architectural rules.

It is regarded as an incontrovertible law, that everything must have a beginning; and Stoney-alley could not have been an exception to this law.

It is certain that the alley and its surrounding courts and lanes must once upon a time have been a space where houses..