SOURCE: Introduction to Anthony Trollope: The Complete Short Stories, Volume 1: The Christmas Stories, Texas Christian University Press, 1979, pp. i-viii.
In the essay below, Breyer examines Trollope's ambivalence toward the genre of the Christmas tale, and his efforts to avoid sentimentality in his own stories of the type by infusing them with elements of the everyday world, with its "little lacerations of the spirit."
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