The narrator started its repairing on christmas eve and found a letter in its drawer.
The best christmas present in the world summary.
Echoes of christmas 1914 in the trenches call to the present day when a letter found by chance in an antique desk brings one soldier s experience hauntingly to life.
Three timed della counted it but the result is same.
In this story the author finds a note in an old desk and tries to reach out to its owner mrs.
The roll top the author found a roll top desk in a junk shop.
This was the best christmas present in the world for her.
He was the leader of his english troop.
The best christmas present in the world.
This one was in a bad condition the roll top in several pieces one leg clumsily mended scorch.
Finally he found a second hand bargain on one in a junk shop.
He thought that he could restore it.
The best christmas present in the world summary in english.
The letter was precious to her but even more precious was her delusion that the narrator was her husband jim who she believed had returned as promised on a christmas day.
Connie macpherson to deliver the letter written by her husband jim during the war.
The best christmas present in the world michael morpurgo.
I spotted it in a junk shop in bridport a roll top desk.
He read the letter.
The story the best christmas present in the world depicts a war story with the festive season of christmas in the backdrop.
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He began to work on it on christmas eve.
Tomorrow would be a christmas day and she had only one dollar and eighty seven cents with which to buy jim her husband a present.
Summary of the best christmas present in the worldthe narrator of the story went to a junk shop and purchased a roll top desk which was in bad condition.
Study materials of the best christmas present in the world summary character sketch and word meanings honeydew character sketch jim macpherson.
Before getting into war he was a school teacher in dorset present in the west part of england.
The letter he pulled out the drawers.
One day the day before christmas day della counted her money only one dollar and eighty seven cents.
It was damaged but cheap.
The narrator had always wanted to buy a roll top desk but could not as they were too costly.
It is the story based on the world war i.
So he bought it.
I had wanted one but they were far too expensive.
The narrator buys a roll top desk.
The man said it was early nineteenth century and oak.
He found that these had been badly damaged by fire and.
It was from jim macpherson to his wife connie as written on top.