La Batalo De L' Vivo
1846
Among Dickens's Christmas books, this is the quietest and most bittersweet. The Jeddler family lives in a peaceful English valley that once ran red with battle. Years have passed since the fighting ended, yet the land remembers what it witnessed. Into this serene setting comes Alfred, a young man with past ties to one of the doctor's daughters, setting hearts and lives adrift. As Grace and Marion dance toward their futures, the doctor, that weary philosopher, watches and reflects on love, loss, and the peculiar absurdity of human existence. This is not a tale of dramatic revelation but of gentle resignation, of lives rearranged by feeling rather than event. Dickens called it a 'romantic drama,' and it reads as exactly that: a meditation on how we battle daily, not with swords, but with choice, sacrifice, and the quiet courage it takes to love. Zamenhof's Esperanto translation, made to prove the language could carry Dickens's emotional weight, adds its own layer of meaning to a book about bridging distances.
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“We count by changes and events within us. Not by years.””
— Charles Dickens
“A kind and generous man by nature, he had stumbled, by chance, over that common Philosopher`s stone (much more easily discovered than the object of the alchemist`s researches), which sometimes trips up kind and generous men, and has the fatal property of turning gold to dross and every precious thing to poor account.””
— Charles Dickens
“Once upon a time, it matters little when, and in stalwart England, it matters little where, a fierce battle was fought.But, as I have observed that Time confuses occasionally, I hardly know what weight to give to his authority.””
— Charles Dickens
“The snow fell fast and thick. He looked up for a moment in the air, and thought that those white ashes strewn upon his hopes and misery, were suited to them well. He looked round on the whitening ground, and thought how Marion's foot-prints would be hushed and covered up, as soon as made, and even that remembrance of her blotted out. But he never felt the weather, and he never stirred.””
— Charles Dickens
“She answered with a smile; a mournful smile, but full of sisterly affection: and she looked in her sister's face, and listened to the quiet music of her voice, picturing the happiness of this return, her own face glowed with hope and joy.And with something else: a something shining more and more through all the rest of its expression: for which I have no name. It was not so calmly shown. It was not love and gratitude alone, though love and gratitude were part of it. It emanated from no sordid thought, for sordid thoughts do not light up the brow, and hover on the lips, and move the spirit, like a fluttered light, until the sympathetic figure trembles.””
— Charles Dickens
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