The Holly-Tree

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About this book

The Holly-Tree is a book by Charles Dickens. The account opens with the words "I have kept one secret in the course of my life. I am a bashful man." The opening states "That object is to give a plain account of my travels and discoveries in the Holly-Tree Inn".

The narrator says "I was heart-broken, it is true, and yet I was not quite so far gone as to wish to be frozen to death." The text says "This reminiscence brought the Welsh Inns in general before me; with the women in their round hats, and the harpers with their white beards". The narrator says "I had taken leave of all my Holly-Tree friends".

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Charles Dickens

Charles John Huffam Dickens was an English writer and journalist. He created some of literature's best-known fictional characters, and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime and, by the 20th century, critics and scholars had recognised him as a literary genius.