Project Gutenberg 2014-02-04 Public domain in the USA. 53 Noyes, Alfred 1880 1958 15018036 Rada: A Belgian Christmas Eve Reading ease score: 86.1 (6th grade). Easy to read. Produced by Charlene Taylor, Paul Clark and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) "Rada: A Belgian Christmas Eve" by Alfred Noyes is a dramatic play written during the early 20th century, specifically during the tumultuous period of World War I. The work explores the themes of war, humanity, and the struggle for love and survival amid chaos, centering around the impact of conflict on personal lives during a Christmas Eve setting. The narrative unfolds in a Belgian village occupied by German soldiers, where Rada, the wife of a village doctor, struggles to protect her young daughter Bettine from the brutal realities of war. As soldiers occupy their home, Rada grapples with fear and despair, revealing the human cost of conflict. The story is enhanced by the character of Nanko, an old schoolmaster who mistakenly believes it is always Christmas Eve, symbolizing innocence amid devastation. The tension escalates as the soldiers entertain dark intentions, testifying to the horrors of war, yet through the power of a Christmas carol played on a gramophone, a flicker of hope for humanity and peace emerges, suggesting that even in the darkest moments, the spirit of compassion and love can prevail. (This is an automatically generated summary.) file:///public/vhost/g/gutenberg/html/files/44829/44829-h/images/cover.jpg en World War, 1914-1918 -- Drama PR Text Browsing: History - Warfare Browsing: Literature Browsing: Fiction 113439 113434 2024-10-18T19:00:12.268721 2023-09-19T13:54:39.722976 text/html text/html 113786 2014-02-04T12:56:10 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 490260 2014-02-04T12:57:14 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 505601 2024-10-18T19:00:18.677756 application/epub+zip 505199 2024-10-18T19:00:13.901715 application/epub+zip 101988 2024-10-18T19:00:13.173731 application/epub+zip 561835 2024-10-18T19:00:22.310670 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 588447 2024-10-18T19:00:17.803751 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 185662 2022-09-20T13:06:15.251853 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 67714 67490 2024-10-18T19:00:11.274723 2023-09-19T13:54:38.987978 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 67448 2014-02-04T12:56:10 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 25684 2014-02-04T12:57:14 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 67443 2014-02-04T12:56:10 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 25663 2014-02-04T12:57:14 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 21570 2024-10-18T19:00:22.526679 application/rdf+xml 17406 2024-10-18T19:00:13.381719 image/jpeg 2574 2024-10-18T19:00:13.273761 image/jpeg 490864 2024-10-18T19:00:12.616752 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