Mr. Kris Kringle a Christmas Tale

by S. Weir Mitchell

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Genres: Christmas, Fiction

48 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1893

About the author

Silas Weir Mitchell was an American physician and writer.

During the Civil War he had charge of nervous injuries and maladies at Turners Lane Hospital, Philadelphia, and at the close of the war became a specialist in neurology. In this field Weir Mitchell's name became prominently associated with his introduction of the rest cure, subsequently taken up by the medical world, for nervous diseases, particularly hysteria; the treatment consisting primarily in isolation, confinement to bed, dieting and massage. His medical texts include Injuries of Nerves and Their Consequences (1872) and Fat and Blood (1877). Mitchell's disease (erythromelalgia) is named after him.

Reviews

[Janis]

Obvious what is going on in the story. For some reason I found it annoying to read all the baby talk.

[✨Jinglemarco✨]

This is a nice tale, but a bit boring and has left me unimpressed.

[Heidi]

Quick read, sweet and very optimistic.

[Loraine]

The short story/novella was written in 1893 and has a sweet old-fashioned flavor.

[Chris]

very olde language to read an ok quick resd less than an hour

[Sem]

A slight and sentimental tale. If only Victorian writers had been able to curb the urge to write children's dialogue with a lisp. If you see what I mean.