Project Gutenberg 2005-01-29 Public domain in the USA. 152 Miller, Alice Duer 1874 1942 Duer, Alice Harding, Charlotte 1873 1951 Brown, Charlotte Harding The Burglar and the Blizzard: A Christmas Story Reading ease score: 81.7 (6th grade). Easy to read. Eric Betts and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team Updated: 2022-10-30. "The Burglar and the Blizzard: A Christmas Story" by Alice Duer Miller is a novel written in the early 20th century. The story unfolds around Geoffrey Holland, a young millionaire, who is drawn into a series of engaging events that intertwine elements of romance, adventure, and crime during a snowy Christmas setting. The plot kicks off with a string of burglaries in Hillsborough, stirring curiosity and excitement about the burglar's identity and motives. At the start of the novel, Geoffrey is dining in a restaurant when he learns about recent daring thefts in the area that stirs the interest of himself and those around him. As the evening progresses, details are revealed about his family and the community's reaction to the burglaries, hinting at his interactions with various characters, including his suspicious brother, who later turns out to be the burglar. The twist in this cozy Christmas tale comes when Geoffrey’s life intersects with a mysterious girl he discovers amid the blizzard, leading to tension and a burgeoning relationship amidst misunderstandings stemming from familial ties to crime. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Christmas stories Love stories Country homes -- Fiction Siblings -- Fiction Rich people -- Fiction Burglars -- Fiction PZ Text Christmas Browsing: Culture/Civilization/Society Browsing: Literature Browsing: Fiction 155838 155803 2024-10-06T14:48:53.786440 2023-09-07T05:03:22.190272 text/html text/html 156025 2022-10-30T01:40:57 text/html 1298164 2024-10-06T14:49:00.913421 application/epub+zip 1297487 2024-10-06T14:48:56.238434 application/epub+zip 87243 2024-10-06T14:48:54.051450 application/epub+zip 1798068 2024-10-06T14:49:03.248467 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1784161 2024-10-06T14:48:58.759411 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 189744 2022-09-07T18:32:35.403671 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 140050 139994 2024-10-06T14:48:53.440448 2023-09-07T05:03:21.853264 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 139750 2022-10-30T01:48:14 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 21701 2024-10-06T14:49:03.383393 application/rdf+xml 24781 2024-10-06T14:48:54.121450 image/jpeg 4026 2024-10-06T14:48:54.087441 image/jpeg 52369 2022-10-30T01:48:44 application/octet-stream application/zip 1297380 2022-10-30T01:49:05 application/octet-stream application/zip 1297018 2024-10-06T14:48:53.828502 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia en.wikipedia