Summary
A beautifully bound hardcover with gilding and a ribbon marker, this collection of stories embodies the very essence of the Season. Here are time-honored classics by Charles Dickens, Washington Irving, and O. Henry and little known tales by Stephen Crane, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Bret Harte. There are stories for children by Louisa May Alcott, Laura Ingalls Wilder, and Lucy Maud Montgomery as well as surprising stories from Cleveland Amory, Pearl Buck and many others. This treasure belongs under the Christmas tree to be shared and read aloud with family and friends for many Christmases to come.
Contents
Born in Bethlehem / St. LukeThe three wise men / St. Matthew
The first Christmas tree / Eugene Field
A little boy at Christ's Christmas tree / Fyodor Dostoyevsky
December night / Willa Cather
Bless me, Father, for I have sinned / Ray Bradbury
A Christmas story / Katherine Anne Porter
The miraculous staircase / Arthur Gordon
Keeping Christmas / Henry van Dyke
The fir tree / Hans Christian Andersen
Merry Christmas / Stephen Leacock
Valley Forge 24 December 1777 / F. Van Wyck Mason
The rescue / Cleveland Amory
A Christmas dinner won in battle / Stephen Crane
Christmas Day in the morning / Pearl S. Buck
The gift of the Magi / O. Henry
A Christmas inspiration / Lucy Maud Montgomery
Christmas at Orchard House / Louisa May Alcott
How Santa Claus came to Simpson's Bar / Bret Harte
A Christmas carol in prose : an excerpt / Charles Dickens
The tailor of Gloucester / Beatrix Potter
Christmas; or the Good Fairy / Harriet Beecher Stowe
Christmas for Sassafras, Cypress & Indigo / Ntozake Shange
The adventure of the Blue Carbuncle / Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Christmas every day / William Dean Howells
Christmas is a sad season for the poor / John Cheever
A gift of the heart / Norman Vincent Peale
The festival of St. Nicholas / Mary Mapes Dodge
A kidnapped Santa Claus / L. Frank Baum
Christmas Eve / Washington Irving
Mr. Edwards meets Santa Claus / Laura Ingalls Wilder
A Brooklyn Christmas / Betty Smith
The tree that didn't get trimmed / Christopher Morley
Letter from Santa Claus / Mark Twain
Is there a Santa Claus ? / Francis P. Church.
Additional Information
| Subjects |
Short stories, American.
Christmas stories. |
| Publisher | New York :Bristol Park Books,2010 |
| Edition | First Bristol Parks edition. |
| Other Titles | Christmas feast of enjoyment by the world's best writers |
| Contributors |
Stuart, Sarah Anne,
editor. |
| Language |
English |
| Description |
viii, 373 pages ; 19 cm |
| ISBN | 9780884865407 (hbk.) 0884865401 (hbk.) |
| Other | Classic View |