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Book Synopsis The Great American Christmas Book by : Nonesuch Press
Download or read book The Great American Christmas Book written by Nonesuch Press and published by Harry N. Abrams. This book was released on 2007-10-18 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the folks who brought readers "The Weekend Book" comes this playful look at the Christmas holiday. This collection covers everything wintertime, from customs to colloquialisms, from snowy games to homemade gifts.
Book Synopsis The Great American Christmas Book by : Nonesuch Press
Download or read book The Great American Christmas Book written by Nonesuch Press and published by Harry N. Abrams. This book was released on 2007-10-18 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the folks who brought readers "The Weekend Book" comes this playful look at the Christmas holiday. This collection covers everything wintertime, from customs to colloquialisms, from snowy games to homemade gifts.
Book Synopsis The Great American Christmas Almanac by : Irena Chalmers
Download or read book The Great American Christmas Almanac written by Irena Chalmers and published by Studio Books. This book was released on 1990 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis American Christmas Stories by : Connie Willis
Download or read book American Christmas Stories written by Connie Willis and published by Library of America. This book was released on 2021-10-26 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ** A New York Times New and Noteworthy Book ** Library of America and Connie Willis present 150 years of diverse, ingenious, and uniquely American Christmas stories Christmas took on its modern cast in America, and over the last 150 years the most magical time of the year has inspired scores of astonishingly diverse and ingenious stories. Library of America joins with acclaimed author Connie Willis to present a unparalleled collection of American stories about Christmas, literary gems that showcase how the holiday became one of the signature aspects of our culture. Spanning from the origins of the American tradition of holiday storytelling in the wake of the Civil War to today, this is the biggest and best anthology of American Christmas stories ever assembled. From ghost stories to the genres of crime, science fiction, fantasy, westerns, humor, and horror, stories of Christmas morning, gifts, wise men, nativities, family, commercialism, and dinners from New York to Texas to outer space, this anthology reveals the evolution of Christmas in America--as well as the surprising ways in which it has remained the same.
Book Synopsis The Great American Novel by : William Carlos Williams
Download or read book The Great American Novel written by William Carlos Williams and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-11-05 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the title, this book is not a serious attempt to writing a 'great American novel', which is a typical literature convention to refer to works that embody the essence of America, generally written by an American and dealing in some way with the question of America's national character. If anything it is the opposite - the book conveys the impossibility of writing such a novel through a satirical lens, by telling the love story between a Ford car and a Mack truck.
Book Synopsis Christmas in America by : Penne L. Restad
Download or read book Christmas in America written by Penne L. Restad and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1996-12-05 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The manger or Macy's? Americans might well wonder which is the real shrine of Christmas, as they take part each year in a mix of churchgoing, shopping, and family togetherness. But the history of Christmas cannot be summed up so easily as the commercialization of a sacred day. As Penne Restad reveals in this marvelous new book, it has always been an ambiguous meld of sacred thoughts and worldly actions-- as well as a fascinating reflection of our changing society. In Christmas in America, Restad brilliantly captures the rise and transformation of our most universal national holiday. In colonial times, it was celebrated either as an utterly solemn or a wildly social event--if it was celebrated at all. Virginians hunted, danced, and feasted. City dwellers flooded the streets in raucous demonstrations. Puritan New Englanders denounced the whole affair. Restad shows that as times changed, Christmas changed--and grew in popularity. In the early 1800s, New York served as an epicenter of the newly emerging holiday, drawing on its roots as a Dutch colony (St. Nicholas was particularly popular in the Netherlands, even after the Reformation), and aided by such men as Washington Irving. In 1822, another New Yorker named Clement Clarke Moore penned a poem now known as "'Twas the Night Before Christmas," virtually inventing the modern Santa Claus. Well-to-do townspeople displayed a German novelty, the decorated fir tree, in their parlors; an enterprising printer discovered the money to be made from Christmas cards; and a hodgepodge of year-end celebrations began to coalesce around December 25 and the figure of Santa. The homecoming significance of the holiday increased with the Civil War, and by the end of the nineteenth century a full- fledged national holiday had materialized, forged out of borrowed and invented custom alike, and driven by a passion for gift-giving. In the twentieth century, Christmas seeped into every niche of our conscious and unconscious lives to become a festival of epic proportions. Indeed, Restad carries the story through to our own time, unwrapping the messages hidden inside countless movies, books, and television shows, revealing the inescapable presence--and ambiguous meaning--of Christmas in contemporary culture. Filled with colorful detail and shining insight, Christmas in America reveals not only much about the emergence of the holiday, but also what our celebrations tell us about ourselves. From drunken revelry along colonial curbstones to family rituals around the tree, from Thomas Nast drawing the semiofficial portrait of St. Nick to the making of the film Home Alone, Restad's sparkling account offers much to amuse and ponder.
Book Synopsis An Early American Christmas by : Tomie dePaola
Download or read book An Early American Christmas written by Tomie dePaola and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new family shows the neighborhood what Christmas is all about In this small New England village, no one makes much of a fuss about Christmas—until a new family moves in, that is. The family works tirelessly to prepare for the holiday: decorating the house, hand-dipping candles, baking mounds of delicious cookies, and carving nativity pieces. In the end, these new neighbors show their small village how to celebrate the holiday in a very special way. This fixed-layout ebook, which preserves the design and layout of the original print book, features read-along narration.
Book Synopsis Merry Christmas! Celebrating AmericaÕs Greatest Holiday by : Karal Ann Marling
Download or read book Merry Christmas! Celebrating AmericaÕs Greatest Holiday written by Karal Ann Marling and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It wouldn't be Christmas without the "things." How they came to mean so much, and to play such a prominent role in America's central holiday, is the tale told in this delightful and edifying book. In a style characteristically engaging and erudite, Karal Ann Marling, one of our most trenchant observers of American culture, describes the outsize spectacle that Christmas has become.
Book Synopsis An Early American Christmas by : Tomie dePaola
Download or read book An Early American Christmas written by Tomie dePaola and published by Turtleback. This book was released on 1992-10-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An old New England family joyously prepares for Christmas. Full-color illustrations.
Book Synopsis The Great American Baby Almanac by : Irena Chalmers
Download or read book The Great American Baby Almanac written by Irena Chalmers and published by Penguin Putnam. This book was released on 1989 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For moms- and dads-in-waiting, brand-new parents, curious siblings, doting grandparents, and anyone who's ever cuddled a baby, Irena Chalmers offers the ultimate baby book, full of insights on the ins and outs of babyhood. 200 photos, 50 in full-color.
Book Synopsis The Great American Awakening by : Jim DeMint
Download or read book The Great American Awakening written by Jim DeMint and published by B&H Publishing Group. This book was released on 2011 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: U.S Senator DeMint rallies Americans to look back at the political corruption in this country over the past two years and join together in taking back their government in 2012.
Book Synopsis A Prairie Christmas Collection by : Tracey V. Bateman
Download or read book A Prairie Christmas Collection written by Tracey V. Bateman and published by Barbour Publishing. This book was released on 2010-09-01 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experience Christmas on the historical American Great Plains as retold by nine different multi-published authors, including Tracie Peterson and Deborah Raney. Follow pioneers, immigrants, and orphans through their adventures, heartaches, challenges, victories, and romances. You are sure to find more than one favorite among the nine holiday romances in this unique collection to warm your heart and inspire your faith.
Download or read book An Early American Christmas written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The inhabitants of a New England village never make much fuss about Christmas until a new family moves in and celebrates the holiday in a special way.
Download or read book Epoch written by and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis American Christmas by : Jim Harrison
Download or read book American Christmas written by Jim Harrison and published by Longstreet Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ranging from caroling to Christmas trees, this book of beautiful paintings and colorful history delightfully narrates the origins of America's most cherished holiday--Christmas. Harrison tells the centuries-old stories behind mistletoe, Saint Nick, stockings by the fireplace, the baby Jesus, Santa and his sleigh, and more. 30 full-color paintings; line drawings.
Download or read book An American Christmas written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christmastime in America is a combination of the sights, sounds, and aromas of the season of giving, and in this beautiful volume are favorite carols, stories, poems, and traditional recipes. More than 90 color photographs and paintings illustrate the classic tales and poems, and the exquisitely design pages and delicate artwork have a timeless appeal.
Book Synopsis Stories Behind the Great Traditions of Christmas by : Ace Collins
Download or read book Stories Behind the Great Traditions of Christmas written by Ace Collins and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2010-05-04 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever wonder where some of our unique and meaningful Christmas traditions come from? Why are red and green popular colors of the season? Why is exchanging gifts a family tradition? Stories Behind the Great Traditions of Christmas reveals the people, places, and events that shaped the best-loved customs of this merriest of holidays and how they all point to Christ. Stories Behind the Great Traditions of Christmas includes insights about: Gift giving Christmas trees Caroling Nativity scenes Yule logs Stockings Advent wreaths Mistletoe Holly, and more! This is the perfect gift to infuse your celebration with spiritual insights, true-life tales, and captivating legends to intrigue you and your family. Bring new luster and depth to your modern traditions while you celebrate Jesus' birth. The traditions of Christmas lend beauty, awe, and hope to the holiday, causing people all over the world to anticipate it with joy. Warm your heart as you rediscover the true and eternal significance of Christmas.
