Classic Christmas Stories

Author : Louisa May Alcott,Charles Dickens,L. M. Montgomery,Mark Twain
Publisher : HarperChristian + ORM
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780785224242

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A Vintage Christmas by Louisa May Alcott,Charles Dickens,L. M. Montgomery,Mark Twain Pdf

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

Author : Louisa May Alcott,Charles Dickens,Hans Christian Andersen
Publisher : Thomas Nelson
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780785232278

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A Classic Christmas by Louisa May Alcott,Charles Dickens,Hans Christian Andersen Pdf

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

Author : Jessica Harrison
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780241396711

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The Penguin Book of Christmas Stories by Jessica Harrison Pdf

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.

Author : Frank Doyle
Publisher : Archie Comic Publications (Trade)
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2015-07-21
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781627388320

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Archie's Classic Christmas Stories Volume 1 by Frank Doyle Pdf

Deck the halls with smiles and laughter! For over fifty years, Archie and his friends have delighted readers with festive yuletide tales. The first Archie holiday stories appeared in such flagship titles as ARCHIE, PEP and LAUGH. The positive response was so overwhelming that soon an entire series was devoted to stories of holiday cheer and good will: ARCHIE'S CHRISTMAS STOCKING! Now you can relive the magic, warmth and hilarity as Archie and his friends show their holiday spirit in this special collection of classic tales, gathered together for the first time. It's a grab bag of goodies just for you!

Author : Louisa Alcott,Frank L. Baum,O. Henry
Publisher : Thomas Nelson
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0785238700

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A Timeless Christmas: a Collection of Classic Stories and Poems by Louisa Alcott,Frank L. Baum,O. Henry Pdf

This holiday season, give the readers in your life a beautiful collection of timeless Christmas stories and poems they will surely cherish for years to come.

Author : Garry Fleming
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Children's poetry, Australian
ISBN : 187587528X

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Home for Christmas by Garry Fleming Pdf

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?

Author : Jeff Guinn
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2006-10-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101127773

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The Autobiography of Santa Claus by Jeff Guinn Pdf

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!

Author : Truman Capote
Publisher : Knopf Books for Young Readers
Page : 49 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780385392761

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A Christmas Memory by Truman Capote Pdf

A reminiscence of a Christmas shared by a seven-year-old boy and a sixtyish childlike woman, with enormous love and friendship between them.

Author : Jean Shepherd
Publisher : Crown
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2010-10-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307768735

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A Christmas Story by Jean Shepherd Pdf

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.

Author : Jennifer Chiaverini
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780698407091

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Christmas Bells by Jennifer Chiaverini Pdf

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.

Author : Louisa May Alcott
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780698170926

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A Merry Christmas by Louisa May Alcott Pdf

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

Author : Madeleine L'Engle
Publisher : Convergent Books
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781524759339

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Miracle on 10th Street by Madeleine L'Engle Pdf

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.

Author : Fannie Flagg
Publisher : Random House
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2004-11-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781588364210

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A Redbird Christmas by Fannie Flagg Pdf

With the same incomparable style and warm, inviting voice that have made her beloved by millions of readers far and wide, New York Times bestselling author Fannie Flagg has written an enchanting Christmas story of faith and hope for all ages that is sure to become a classic. Deep in the southernmost part of Alabama, along the banks of a lazy winding river, lies the sleepy little community known as Lost River, a place that time itself seems to have forgotten. After a startling diagnosis from his doctor, Oswald T. Campbell leaves behind the cold and damp of the oncoming Chicago winter to spend what he believes will be his last Christmas in the warm and welcoming town of Lost River. There he meets the postman who delivers mail by boat, the store owner who nurses a broken heart, the ladies of the Mystic Order of the Royal Polka Dots Secret Society, who do clandestine good works. And he meets a little redbird named Jack, who is at the center of this tale of a magical Christmas when something so amazing happened that those who witnessed it have never forgotten it. Once you experience the wonder, you too will never forget A Redbird Christmas.

Author : Billy Jones
Publisher : Booksurge Publishing
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2006-09-30
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1419650653

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Reindeer Tales by Billy Jones Pdf

Both stories are based on the classic theme-- something has gone wrong and Christmas may have to be canceled if Santa can't fix it in time. In The Reindeer Shoe a reindeer has lost one of the magic shoes that enables the reindeer to fly and the little boy who finds the tiny shoe discovers the shoe gives its possessor magic powers and refuses to return the shoe to Santa.In the Great Reindeer Get-a-way, two of Santa's reindeer break out from the stable just days before Christmas and get horribly lost as they fly about the world in search of pizza.

Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Christmas stories
ISBN : 9780557892907

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The Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens Pdf