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Book Excerpt: 
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To please you, Jewess, jewel!
  I have thinned my harem out!
Must every flirting of your fan
  Presage a dying shout?

Grace for the damsels tender
  Who have fear to hear your laugh,
For seldom gladness gilds your lips
  But blood you mean to quaff.

In jealousy so zealous,
  Never was there woman worse;
You'd have no roses but those grown
  Above some buried corse.

Am I not pinioned firmly?
  Why be angered if the door
Repulses fifty suing maids
  Who vainly there implore?

Let them live on—to envy
  My own empress of the world,
To whom all Stamboul like a dog
  Lies at the slippers curled.

To you my heroes lower
  Those scarred ensigns none h. . . Read More

Community Reviews

Looking through my bedroom window, out into the moonlight and the unending smoke-colored snow, I could see the lights in the windows of all the other houses on our hill and hear the music rising from them up the long, steadily falling night. I turned the gas down, I got into bed. I said some words t

Gorgeous prose— despite some of the longest sentences ever.

A lovely read from start to finish— full of imagery and luscious metaphors and similes.

I completely forgot to review this little book, my husband has read it out loud for the whole family during Christmas Eve, The poor one has been interrupted hundreds of times because the English used by Thomas was not very easy to understand for us, many words now in disuse., so he had to translate

Beautiful.

My understanding is this is a British Christmas classic. I've been reading it to my children for several years now at Christmas time. It's such a delightful story and so beautifully told. If you want to re-live the nostalgic Christmas past I highly recommend you read this short story.

My artistic, flighty mother, who's in her 70's, flits in and out of my life, leaving quirky gifts behind. Sometimes they go straight to Goodwill (used clothing, cheap knickknacks); sometimes they're useful (a type of mop she particularly loves); sometimes they're delightful (my grandmother's sterlin

“One Christmas was so much like another, in those years around the sea-town corner now and out of all sound except the distant speaking of the voices I sometimes hear a moment before sleep, that I can never remember whether it snowed for six days and six nights when I was twelve or whether it snowed

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