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The Penguin Book of Christmas Stories

Author : Jessica Harrison
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0241396719
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (413 download)

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Download or read book The Penguin Book of Christmas Stories written by Jessica Harrison and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2019-10-03 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The perfect gift this Christmas season: a generous selection of some of the greatest festive stories of all time This is a collection of the most magical, moving, chilling and surprising Christmas stories from around the world, taking us from frozen Nordic woods to glittering Paris, a New York speakeasy to an English country house, bustling Lagos to midnight mass in Rio, and even outer space. Here are classic tales from writers including Truman Capote, Shirley Jackson, Dylan Thomas, Saki and Chekhov, as well as little-known treasures such as Italo Calvino's wry sideways look at Christmas consumerism, Wolfdietrich Schnurre's story of festive ingenuity in Berlin, Selma Lagerlof's enchanted forest in Sweden, and Irène Nemerovsky's dark family portrait. Featuring santas, ghosts, trolls, unexpected guests, curmudgeons and miracles, here is Christmas as imagined by some of the greatest short story writers of all time.

A Classic Christmas

Author : Louisa May Alcott
Publisher : Thomas Nelson
ISBN 13 : 0785232273
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (852 download)

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Download or read book A Classic Christmas written by Louisa May Alcott and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This beautiful, giftable Christmas collection features timeless works from well-known authors that will become a precious holiday keepsake. Perhaps no Christmas novel is more beloved than Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol, and no holiday poem more well-known than Clement Clarke Moore’s “’Twas the Night Before Christmas.” Together these classic literary masterpieces warm our hearts and remind us of the joy and love to be discovered anew each Christmas morning. A Classic Christmas features both of these traditional works, as well as other vintage poems and stories that celebrate the timeless truths of the holiday season. This cheerful, collectible treasury makes a wonderful gift for the reader in your life and reminds us that simple gifts of the heart and memories made with loved ones truly are the most meaningful of all. With additional pieces from Louisa May Alcott, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Hans Christian Andersen, and more, A Classic Christmas will become a beloved holiday keepsake—one that will be enjoyed by the whole family for years to come. Perfect as a stocking stuffer or as a host or hostess gift Hardcover, giftable size Makes a lovely keepsake companion to A Vintage Christmas and A Timeless Christmas Includes hopeful and encouraging Christmas stories

A Vintage Christmas

Author : Louisa May Alcott
Publisher : HarperChristian + ORM
ISBN 13 : 0785224246
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (852 download)

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Download or read book A Vintage Christmas written by Louisa May Alcott and published by HarperChristian + ORM. This book was released on 2018-10-09 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This beautiful, giftable Christmas collection features old-fashioned works from classic authors who invite you to a feast of holiday nostalgia. Filled with stories that have been part of the Christmas season for generations, A Vintage Christmas is a unique collection of lesser-known Christmas tales, reflections, and poems from beloved authors across the centuries and makes the perfect gift for the reader in your life. This beautiful treasury will take you back to firesides, simple gifts, and warm family moments of Christmases past as you cherish the timeless truths and joys of the season. Discover a charming story from L. M. Montgomery about love and sacrifice in a little log house. See Christmas through the eyes of a child in a New England colonial village with Harriet Beecher Stowe. Remember the reason Christ came to earth in the poetry of Anne Brontë. Share with your family the delightful letter Mark Twain wrote as Santa Claus to his three-year-old daughter. A Vintage Christmas includes stories from Louisa May Alcott, Charles Dickens, Ralph Henry Barbour, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Mark Twain, L. M. Montgomery, and William Dean Howells, as well as poems from Eliza Cook, Christina Rossetti, William Makepeace Thackeray, Joyce Kilmer, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. A Vintage Christmas is a timeless reminder that the heart of the holiday never changes. Hardcover, giftable size Perfect as a stocking stuffer and host or hostess gift Filled with hopeful and encouraging Christmas stories Makes a lovely keepsake companion to A Classic Christmas and A Timeless Christmas

A Christmas Story

Author : Jean Shepherd
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0307768732
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book A Christmas Story written by Jean Shepherd and published by Crown. This book was released on 2010-10-27 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A beloved, bestselling classic of humorous and nostalgic Americana—the book that inspired the equally classic Yuletide film and the live musical on Fox. The holiday film A Christmas Story, first released in 1983, has become a bona fide Christmas perennial, gaining in stature and fame with each succeeding year. Its affectionate, wacky, and wryly realistic portrayal of an American family’s typical Christmas joys and travails in small-town Depression-era Indiana has entered our imagination and our hearts with a force equal to It’s a Wonderful Life and Miracle on 34th Street. This edition of A Christmas Story gathers together in one hilarious volume the gems of autobiographical humor that Jean Shepherd drew upon to create this enduring film. Here is young Ralphie Parker’s shocking discovery that his decoder ring is really a device to promote Ovaltine; his mother and father’s pitched battle over the fate of a lascivious leg lamp; the unleashed and unnerving savagery of Ralphie’s duel in the show with the odious bullies Scut Farkas and Grover Dill; and, most crucially, Ralphie’s unstoppable campaign to get Santa—or anyone else—to give him a Red Ryder carbine action 200-shot range model air rifle. Who cares that the whole adult world is telling him, “You’ll shoot your eye out, kid”? The pieces that comprise A Christmas Story, previously published in the larger collections In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash and Wanda Hickey’s Night of Golden Memories, coalesce in a magical fashion to become an irresistible piece of Americana, quite the equal of the film in its ability to warm the heart and tickle the funny bone.

Home for Christmas

Author : Garry Fleming
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781875875283
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (752 download)

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Download or read book Home for Christmas written by Garry Fleming and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's almost Christmas, and a small hopping mouse is hurrying to get home with presents for his children. But he's been away so long. Can he find his way?

The Best Christmas Stories Ever

Author : O. Henry
Publisher : Apple Classics
ISBN 13 : 9780590451680
Total Pages : 97 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book The Best Christmas Stories Ever written by O. Henry and published by Apple Classics. This book was released on 1992-10-01 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of favorite holiday tales features O. Henry's timeless classic, "The Gift of the Magi," and stories by Hans Christian Andersen, Louisa May Alcott, and Kate Douglas Wiggin. Original.

A Merry Christmas

Author : Louisa May Alcott
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 069817092X
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (981 download)

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Download or read book A Merry Christmas written by Louisa May Alcott and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-10-08 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of five beloved Christmas classics A Merry Christmas collects the treasured holiday tales of Louisa May Alcott, from the dearly familiar Yuletide benevolence of Marmee and her “little women” to the timeless “What Love Can Do,” wherein the residents of a boarding house come together to make a lovely Christmas for two poor girls. Wildly popular at the time of their publication—readers deluged Alcott with letters demanding sequels—and drawing on Alcott’s family and experiences in the abolitionist and women’s suffrage movements, these stories have the authentic texture and detail of Christmas in nineteenth-century America, while their emphasis on generosity and charity make them timeless embodiments of the Christmas spirit. Penguin Christmas Classics Give the gift of literature this Christmas. Penguin Christmas Classics honor the power of literature to keep on giving through the ages. The five volumes in the series are not only our most beloved Christmas tales, they also have given us much of what we love about the holiday itself. A Christmas Carol revived in Victorian England such Christmas hallmarks as the Christmas tree, holiday cards, and caroling. The Yuletide yarns of Anthony Trollope popularized throughout the British Empire and around the world the trappings of Christmas in London. The holiday tales of Louisa May Alcott shaped the ideal of an American Christmas. The Night Before Christmas brought forth some of our earliest Christmas traditions as passed down through folk tales. And The Nutcracker inspired the most famous ballet in history, one seen by millions in the twilight of every year. Collect all five Penguin Christmas Classics: A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens Christmas at Thompson Hall: And Other Christmas Stories by Anthony Trollope A Merry Christmas: And Other Christmas Stories by Louisa May Alcott The Night Before Christmas by Nikolai Gogol The Nutcracker by E. T. A. Hoffmann

A Christmas Memory

Author : Truman Capote
Publisher : Knopf Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 0385392761
Total Pages : 49 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (853 download)

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Download or read book A Christmas Memory written by Truman Capote and published by Knopf Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2014-10-28 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reminiscence of a Christmas shared by a seven-year-old boy and a sixtyish childlike woman, with enormous love and friendship between them.

The Autobiography of Santa Claus

Author : Jeff Guinn
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101127775
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book The Autobiography of Santa Claus written by Jeff Guinn and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006-10-19 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It all started when Jeff Guinn was assigned to write a piece full of little-known facts about Christmas for his paper, The Fort Worth Star-Telegram. A few months later, he received a call from a gentleman who told him that he showed the story to an important friend who didn’t think much of it. And who might that be? asked Jeff. The next thing he knew, he was whisked off to the North Pole to meet with this “very important friend,” and the rest is, well, as they say, history. An enchanting holiday treasure, The Autobiography of Santa Claus combines solid historical fact with legend to deliver the definitive story of Santa Claus. And who better to lead us through seventeen centuries of Christmas magic than good ol’ Saint Nick himself? Families will delight in each chapter of this new Christmas classic—one per each cold December night leading up to Christmas!

Froggy's Best Christmas

Author : Jonathan London
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101653396
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Froggy's Best Christmas written by Jonathan London and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2002-09-23 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Froggy has never celebrated Christmas; usually he's taking his long winter's nap. But not this year! Froggy's best friend, Max the beaver, wakes him up to join the fun. Soon, Froggy's gotten into the swing of things: finding a tree, wrapping presents, singing carols, and enjoying a holiday feast. Join Froggy as he celebrates his very first, and very best, Christmas! "The humor and spirited artwork will put Froggy fans in the holiday mood!" (The Horn Book) "Children who have delighted in the earlier books about Froggy will cheer him along as he experiences his very first Christmas." (School Library Journal)

Christmas in the Big Woods

Author : Laura Ingalls Wilder
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0064434877
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (644 download)

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Download or read book Christmas in the Big Woods written by Laura Ingalls Wilder and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1997-09-20 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long ago, a little girl named Laura Ingalls lived in a little house in the Big Woods of Wisconsin with her Pa, her Ma, her sisters, Mary and Carrie, and their good old bulldog, Jack. Winter was just around the corner, and Laura worked hard to help make the little house ready for the cold days ahead. Soon there was frost on the windows and snow on the ground, but Laura and her folks were warm and cozy in their snug little house in the Big Woods. Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House books have been cherished by generations of readers. Now for the first time, the youngest readers can share her adventures in these very special picture books adapted from Laura Ingalls Wilder's beloved storybooks. Renée Graef's warm paintings, inspired by Garth Williams' classic Little House illustrations, bring Laura and her family lovingly to life.

A Christmas Story

Author : Caseen Gaines
Publisher : ECW Press
ISBN 13 : 1770411402
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book A Christmas Story written by Caseen Gaines and published by ECW Press. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive guide to everything fans want to know about A Christmas Story shares the inside story behind the film’s production, release, and unlikely ascent to the top of popular culture. From Jean Shepherd’s original radio broadcasts to Bob Clark’s 1983 sleeper hit film and beyond, A Christmas Story has become a beloved Yuletide tradition over the last three decades. In conjunction with the 30th anniversary of its theatrical release, this is the untold story of the making of the film, and what happened afterwards. Ralphie Parker’s quest for a Red Ryder air rifle didn’t end with the movie’s release; the tale inspired massive VHS sales, a Broadway production, and a mountain of merchandise. Complete with rare and previously unreleased photographs, now fans of the movie and film buffs alike can lean all they didn’t know about the timeless classic.

Christmas Bells

Author : Jennifer Chiaverini
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0698407091
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (984 download)

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Download or read book Christmas Bells written by Jennifer Chiaverini and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-10-27 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Chiaverini celebrates Christmas, past and present, with a wondrous novel inspired by the classic poem “Christmas Bells,” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. I heard the bells on Christmas Day / Their old familiar carols play / And wild and sweet / The words repeat / Of peace on earth, good-will to men! In 1860, the Henry Wadsworth Longfellow family celebrated Christmas at Craigie House, their home in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The publication of Longfellow’s classic Revolutionary War poem, “Paul Revere’s Ride,” was less than a month hence, and the country’s grave political unrest weighed heavily on his mind. Yet with his beloved wife, Fanny, and their five adored children at his side, the delights of the season prevailed. In present-day Boston, a dedicated teacher in the Watertown public school system is stunned by somber holiday tidings. Sophia’s music program has been sacrificed to budget cuts, and she worries not only about her impending unemployment but also about the consequences to her underprivileged students. At the church where she volunteers as music director, Sophia tries to forget her cares as she leads the children’s choir in rehearsal for a Christmas Eve concert. Inspired to honor a local artist, Sophia has chosen a carol set to a poem by Longfellow, moved by the glorious words he penned one Christmas Day long ago, even as he suffered great loss. Christmas Bells chronicles the events of 1863, when the peace and contentment of Longfellow’s family circle was suddenly, tragically broken, cutting even deeper than the privations of wartime. Through the pain of profound loss and hardship, Longfellow’s patriotism never failed, nor did the power of his language. “Christmas Bells,” the poem he wrote that holiday, lives on, spoken as verse and sung as a hymn. Jennifer Chiaverini’s resonant and heartfelt novel for the season reminds us why we must continue to hear glad tidings, even as we are tested by strife. Reading Christmas Bells evokes the resplendent joy of a chorus of voices raised in reverent song.

Miracle on 10th Street

Author : Madeleine L'Engle
Publisher : Convergent Books
ISBN 13 : 1524759333
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (247 download)

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Download or read book Miracle on 10th Street written by Madeleine L'Engle and published by Convergent Books. This book was released on 2019-10-29 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrate the season with this beautiful and inspiring collection of thoughtful reflections on Christmas from the bestselling author of A Wrinkle in Time. For more than seventy years, Madeleine L’Engle’s writing have delighted and inspired readers. In her stories, essays, poems, journal entries, and letters, she returned again and again to the beauty of Christmas, illuminating the holiday with her singular insight and imagination. Miracle on 10th Street includes excerpts from her most cherished works, reflecting on Advent, Incarnation, Epiphany, mystery, and redemption. In these pages, L’Engle points to the marvels and curiosities that fill everyday life. And, as always, she shows herself to be a one-woman force for celebration—fully believing that delight and wonder must mark the life of anyone who sees God’s love at work.

Christmas Stories

Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Christmas Stories written by Charles Dickens and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Burglar's Christmas

Author : Willa Cather
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496229509
Total Pages : 21 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (962 download)

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Download or read book The Burglar's Christmas written by Willa Cather and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2021-11 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Burglar's Christmas was originally published near the beginning of Willa Cather's writing career in 1896 under the pseudonym of Elizabeth L. Seymour. The story follows William Crawford on the cold streets of Chicago as he contemplates the multiple failures plaguing his life, including his time at college and careers in journalism, real estate, and performing. Distraught, he tries one more role: thief. Attempting to burgle a residence and caught in the act by the lady of the house, William must come to terms with the choices that led him to that moment. Cather provides a heartwarming short story of redemption and love at Christmas, a timely reminder that kindness is in everyone, just waiting to be uncovered.

Home for Christmas

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780874869248
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (692 download)

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Download or read book Home for Christmas written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty of the best Christmas stories of all time are collected in one handsomely illustrated anthology. Selected for their literary quality and spiritual integrity, these time-honored favorites will resonate with readers year after year.