Little Peter: A Christmas Morality

e-artnow presents the Christmas Specials Series. We have selected the greatest Christmas novels, short stories and fairy tales for this joyful and charming holiday season, for all those who want to keep the spirit of Christmas alive with a heartwarming tale. Little Peter is a tale of a young boy who lived on the edge of the pine forest in a big wooden house with his parents, his two brothers and their servants Eliza and Gustavus. Peter is the youngest child in the Lepage family by number of years and this Christmas he is about to have an adventure to remember.

Lucas Malet was the pseudonym of Mary St Leger Kingsley (1852-1931), a Victorian novelist. Of her novels, The Wages of Sin and The History of Sir Richard Calmady were especially popular. Malet's early novels were genteel Victorian romances, but by the 1890s she was using the ideas of the aesthetic movement to explore more transgressive themes, such as adultery and sadism. Her later novels are proto-modernist in their explorations of marginal consciousnesses.