| Description |
vii, 320 pages ; 19 cm |
| Summary |
"During the hectic Christmas season, slow down with these heartwarming stories from some of literature's most beloved writers. In this collection, readers will discover lesser-known but tender stories and poems from classic authors they know and love. Each selection celebrates the beauty, mystery, and joy found in the season that commemorates Christ's birth. A Vintage Christmas includes stories from Louisa May Alcott, Charles Dickens, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Mark Twain, L.M. Montgomery, and Selma Lagerlof, as well as poems from John Milton, Christina Rossetti, William Makepeace Thackeray, Anne Bronté, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge"-- Provided by publisher. |
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"During the hectic Christmas season, slow down with these heartwarming stories from some of literature's most beloved writers"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Contents |
Stories and sketches: A Christmas dream, and how it came to be true ; A country Christmas / Louisa May Alcott -- Christmas at Red Butte ; A Christmas inspiration ; A Christmas mistake ; Aunt Cyrilla's Christmas basket / L.M. Montgomery -- Christmas every day / William Dean Howells -- Christmas; or, The good fairy ; Christmas in Poganuc / Harriet Beecher Stowe -- A Christmas dinner / Charles Dickens -- A letter from Santa Claus / Mark Twain -- The story of Christmas / Kate Douglas Wiggin and Nora A. Smith -- A college Santa Claus / Ralph Henry Barbour -- Poems: Christmas bells / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- Christmas tide / Eliza Cook -- A Christmas carol / Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- Music on Christmas morning / Anne Brontë -- Ring out, wild bells, from In memoriam / Alfred Lord Tennyson -- The mahogany tree / William Makepeace Thackeray -- A Christmas carol / Christina Rossetti -- Christmas in the heart / Paul Laurence Dunbar -- Noel : Christmas Eve 1963 / Robert Bridges -- Wartime Christmas / Joyce Kilmer. |
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Christmas stories, American.
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Christmas stories, English.
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Christmas poetry, American.
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Christmas poetry, English.
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Christmas poetry, American. (OCoLC)fst01893228
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Christmas poetry, English. (OCoLC)fst01893232
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Christmas stories, American. (OCoLC)fst00859868
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Christmas stories, English. (OCoLC)fst00859877
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| Genre/Form |
Short stories. (OCoLC)fst01726740
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Christmas poetry. (OCoLC)fst01981976
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Christmas fiction. (OCoLC)fst01981983
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Christmas fiction.
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Short stories.
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Christmas poetry.
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Short stories.
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Christmas stories. (OCoLC)fst01726561
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| ISBN |
9780785224136 (hardback) |
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0785224130 (hardback) |
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