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PREFACE
MUCH DARKER DAYS
by Andrew Lang
[AKA A. Huge Longway]
1884
A belief that modern Christmas fiction is too cheerful in tone, too artistic in construction, and too original in motive, has
inspired the author of this tale of middle-class life. He trusts that he has escaped, at least, the errors he deplores, and
has set an example of a more seasonable and sensational style of narrative. _