The Heavenly Christmas Tree

Written by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Narrated by Max Bollinger

I am a novelist, and I suppose I have made up this story.

I write 'I suppose,' though I know for a fact that I have made it up, but yet I keep fancying that it must have happened somewhere at some time, that it must have happened on Christmas Eve in some great town in a time of terrible frost.

An Interactive Media audio production.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Interactive Media
• Release date: Dec 15, 2015
• ISBN: 9781911144557

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821–1881) was a Russian author and journalist. He spent four years in prison, endured forced military service and was nearly executed for the crime of reading works forbidden by the government. He battled a gambling addiction that once left him a beggar, and he suffered ill health, including epileptic seizures. Despite these challenges, Dostoevsky wrote fiction possessed of groundbreaking, even daring, social and psychological insight and power. Novels like Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, and The Brothers Karamazov, have won the author acclaim from figures ranging from Franz Kafka to Ernest Hemingway, Friedrich Nietzsche to Virginia Woolf.

Reviews for The Heavenly Christmas Tree

[john257hopper · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Two very short Christmas stories. The Heavenly Christmas Tree was much the better one, a poignant vignette of a poor boy rejected by others at Christmas in the freezing cold (4/5). The Christmas Tree and the Wedding was also about a put upon small boy, but weaker and not very Christmassy.