Project Gutenberg 2023-03-20 Public domain in the USA. 145 Chase, Mary Ellen 1887 1973 Mary Christmas $aUnited States :$bLittle, Brown & Co., $c1926. Tim Lindell, Krista Zaleski and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.) "Mary Christmas" by Mary Ellen Chase is a novel written in the early 20th century. The book focuses on the Wescott family, particularly the four Wescott children, who lead a bucolic life in a small Maine village during the late 1890s. The arrival of Mary Christmas, a traveler from Armenia with a mysterious past, introduces adventure and cultural richness into their routine existence, setting the stage for themes of identity, belonging, and the contrasts between their sheltered lives and Mary’s world of ancient history and impending turmoil. At the start of the novel, the four Wescott children witness their father's unusual behavior of carrying his collar and tie instead of wearing them, which becomes a source of speculation and mild embarrassment. This quirky family dynamic is soon overshadowed by the arrival of Mary Christmas, who presents an enchanting figure to the children with her striking appearance and tales from her homeland—a place they come to learn is the enigmatic Garden of Eden. The opening chapters cleverly juxtapose the children’s innocent curiosity and their father's societal standing with the complexities of Mary Christmas's past, establishing the groundwork for the deeper explorations of connection and empathy that will unfold as they engage with this extraordinary guest. (This is an automatically generated summary.) https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.299807 20220317023949chase 1926 US Reading ease score: 71.5 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. en Maine -- Juvenile fiction Families -- Juvenile fiction Peddlers -- Juvenile fiction Armenian Americans -- Juvenile fiction PZ Text Category: Novels Category: American Literature 191544 2025-06-28T03:54:57.269239 text/html 190664 2023-03-20T12:43:26 text/html 475292 2025-06-28T03:55:02.068236 application/epub+zip 473160 2025-06-28T03:54:58.723264 application/epub+zip 152953 2025-06-28T03:54:57.789247 application/epub+zip 618048 2025-06-28T03:55:04.483228 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 597512 2025-06-28T03:55:01.297210 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 167867 2025-06-28T03:54:56.931255 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 167652 2023-03-20T12:43:26 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 18687 2025-06-28T03:55:04.613201 application/rdf+xml 14362 2025-06-28T03:54:57.999228 image/jpeg 1930 2025-06-28T03:54:57.855234 image/jpeg 64666 2023-03-20T12:43:27 application/octet-stream application/zip 475425 2023-03-20T12:43:27 application/octet-stream application/zip 483598 2025-06-28T03:54:57.293282 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia