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We hope you enjoy this preview of an episode from our back catalog available to our premium subscribers. Tonight, we\u2019ll read a short story by Charles Dickens called \u201cA Christmas Tree\u201d, from 1850.\xa0To unlock full episodes, ad-free listening, and more, please go to\xa0snoozecast.com/plus.\nIt was only ten years earlier, in 1840, that Queen Victoria\u2019s husband, Prince Albert, introduced the German concept of a Christmas tree to England. Before then, nobody in England had placed a Christmas tree in their home.\nJust as Dicken\u2019s \u201cA Christmas Carol\u201d isn\u2019t actually a song, \u201cA Christmas Tree\u201d is barely a story and the tree is merely a launching off point for a series of dreamy impressions from the author\u2019s mind.\n\n\u2014 read by 'M' \u2014\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices