| Description |
xx, 474 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
The fir tree / HansChristian Andersen -- Saint Stephen was a clerk ; I saw three ships / Anonymous -- The cat on the Doverfell / Peter Christen Asbjörnsen and Jörgen Moe -- The ghost of Christmas Eve / J.M. Barrie -- Of argonauts and holly weaths / John Baur -- The white road / E.F. Bozman -- Christmas Eve / Robert Browning -- A Christmas memory / Truman Capote -- December night / Willa Cather -- Christmas is a sad season for the poor / John Cheever -- What was the Christmas star? / Arthur C. Clarke -- Christmas in Maine / Robert P. Tristram Coffin -- The Christmas tree / Samuel T. Coleridge -- Christmas Eve / Alistair Cooke -- The Christmas gift / Joan Coons -- A Christmas dinner won in battle / Stephen Crane -- Little tree / E.E. Cummings -- Santa Claus / Walter de la Mare -- A Christmas chapter ; The holly-tree / Charles Dickens -- The Festival of St. Nicholas / Mary Mapes Dodge -- A little boy at Christ's Christmas tree / Feodor Dostoevsky -- An Iowa Christmas / Paul Engle -- A Christmas gift of music, long ago / Hans Fantel -- The first Christmas tree / Eugene Field -- Christmas trees / Robert Frost -- Dulce domum / Kenneth Grahame -- The oxen ; Mellstock-Lane ; Going the rounds ; The listeners / Thomas Hardy -- How Santa Claus came to Simpson's Bar / Bret Harte -- Gifts of the Magi / O. Henry -- Ceremonies for Candelmas / Robert Herrick -- On lending a punch-bowl / Oliver Wendell Holmes -- The inexhaustability of the subject of Christmas / Leigh Hunt -- New-fashioned Christmas / Aldous Huxley -- Christmas Eve / Washington Irving -- Paris, Christmas, 1876 / Henry James -- Christmas Eve / James Joyce -- A letter at Christmastime / John Keats -- A schoolboy's holiday / Charles Lamb -- Old folks' Christmas / Ring Lardner -- Joy in Freetown / Edna Lewis -- Valley Forge : 24 December 1777 / F. Van Wyck Mason -- Dear Madam: We know that you will want to contribute ... ; Office party ; Lady selecting her Christmas cards / Phyllis McGinley -- Shakespeare's Christmas gift to Queen Bess in 1596 / Anna B. McMahan -- Merry Christmas / Herman Melville -- hristmas story / H.L. Mencken -- A hint for next Christmas / A.A. Milne -- On the morning of Christ's nativity / John Milton -- A visit from St. Nicholas / Clement C. Moore -- The Christmas tobacco ; The tree that didn't get trimmed / Christopher Morley -- The Christmas that almost wasn't / Ogden Nash -- Our crafty little Christmas / John Neary -- The Christmas football match / Oswestry observer -- Celebration in Cherokee Flats / Gordon Parks -- The Christmas bird count / George Plimpton -- A Christmas story / Katherine Anne Porter -- The tailor of Gloucester / Beatrix Potter -- The kid hangs up his stocking / Jacob Riis -- Karma / Edwin Arlington Robinson -- Christmas / Eleanor Roosevelt -- Mr. K*A*P*L*A*N and the Magi / Leo Rosten -- I am Christmas ; Now is the time of Christmas / James Ryman -- Reginald's Christmas revel / Saki -- A Brooklyn Christmas / Betty Smith -- Tree-shaking day / Lillian Smith -- The burning babe / Robert Southwell -- Christmas at sea / Robert Louis Stevenson -- The Christmas wreck / Frank Stockton -- Christmas on the frontier / Joanna L. Stratton -- Crisp new bills for Mr. Teagle / Frank Sullivan -- Is there a Santa Claus? / The Sun -- In memoriam of A.H.H. / Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- Doctor Birch and his young friends / William Makepeace Thackeray -- Conversation about Christmas / Dylan Thomas -- A winter walk / Henry David Thoreau -- Merry Christmas / James Thurber -- Christmas at Claremont / Queen Victoria -- The annual crisis of love / Loudon Wainwright -- The distant music of the hounds / E.B. White -- An editorial on Christmas Day, 1917 / Wipers Times -- The Magi / William Butler Yeats. |
| Summary |
Includes Christmas in Iowa by Paul Engel. |
| Subject |
Christmas -- Literary collections.
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| Added Author |
Newcombe, Jack.
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| ISBN |
0670221104 |
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9780670221103 |
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