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Behind the White Brick

Frances Hodgson Burnett

First published 1890
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story

A brick falls from the inside of the chimney, tempting Jem to look up the chimney where she sees a white brick revealed where the brick had fallen. An updraft in the chimney takes her up to the white brick, which opens to reveal a magical world of lost toys and Santa Claus.

First published in the magazine St. Nicholas, January 1879.

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1890 Little Saint Elizabeth and Other Stories Frederick Warne Collection
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