Viking Press,
9780670221103
Book
A Christmas treasury
The fir tree / Saint Stephen was a clerk ; I saw three ships / The cat on the Doverfell / The ghost of Christmas Eve / Of argonauts and holly weaths / The white road / Christmas Eve / A Christmas memory / December night / Christmas is a sad season for the poor / What was the Christmas star? / Christmas in Maine / The Christmas tree / Christmas Eve / The Christmas gift / A Christmas dinner won in battle / Little tree / E.E. Cummings -- Santa Claus / Walter de la Mare -- A Christmas chapter ; The holly-tree / The Festival of St. Nicholas / A little boy at Christ's Christmas tree / An Iowa Christmas / A Christmas gift of music, long ago / The first Christmas tree / Christmas trees / Dulce domum / The oxen ; Mellstock-Lane ; Going the rounds ; The listeners / How Santa Claus came to Simpson's Bar / Gifts of the Magi / Ceremonies for Candelmas / On lending a punch-bowl / The inexhaustability of the subject of Christmas / New-fashioned Christmas / Christmas Eve / Paris, Christmas, 1876 / Christmas Eve / A letter at Christmastime / A schoolboy's holiday / Old folks' Christmas / Joy in Freetown / Valley Forge : 24 December 1777 / Dear Madam: We know that you will want to contribute ... ; Office party ; Lady selecting her Christmas cards / Shakespeare's Christmas gift to Queen Bess in 1596 / Merry Christmas / hristmas story / A hint for next Christmas / On the morning of Christ's nativity / John Milton -- A visit from St. Nicholas / The Christmas tobacco ; The tree that didn't get trimmed / The Christmas that almost wasn't / Our crafty little Christmas / The Christmas football match / Celebration in Cherokee Flats / The Christmas bird count / A Christmas story / The tailor of Gloucester / The kid hangs up his stocking / Karma / Christmas / Mr. K*A*P*L*A*N and the Magi / I am Christmas ; Now is the time of Christmas / Reginald's Christmas revel / A Brooklyn Christmas / Tree-shaking day / The burning babe / Christmas at sea / The Christmas wreck / Christmas on the frontier / Crisp new bills for Mr. Teagle / Is there a Santa Claus? / In memoriam of A.H.H. / Doctor Birch and his young friends / Conversation about Christmas / A winter walk / Merry Christmas / Christmas at Claremont / The annual crisis of love / The distant music of the hounds / An editorial on Christmas Day, 1917 / The Magi
Newcombe, Jack.
HansChristian Andersen -- Anonymous -- Peter Christen Asbjörnsen and Jörgen Moe -- J.M. Barrie -- John Baur -- E.F. Bozman -- Robert Browning -- Truman Capote -- Willa Cather -- John Cheever -- Arthur C. Clarke -- Robert P. Tristram Coffin -- Samuel T. Coleridge -- Alistair Cooke -- Joan Coons -- Stephen Crane -- Charles Dickens -- Mary Mapes Dodge -- Feodor Dostoevsky -- Paul Engle -- Hans Fantel -- Eugene Field -- Robert Frost -- Kenneth Grahame -- Thomas Hardy -- Bret Harte -- O. Henry -- Robert Herrick -- Oliver Wendell Holmes -- Leigh Hunt -- Aldous Huxley -- Washington Irving -- Henry James -- James Joyce -- John Keats -- Charles Lamb -- Ring Lardner -- Edna Lewis -- F. Van Wyck Mason -- Phyllis McGinley -- Anna B. McMahan -- Herman Melville -- H.L. Mencken -- A.A. Milne -- Clement C. Moore -- Christopher Morley -- Ogden Nash -- John Neary -- Oswestry observer -- Gordon Parks -- George Plimpton -- Katherine Anne Porter -- Beatrix Potter -- Jacob Riis -- Edwin Arlington Robinson -- Eleanor Roosevelt -- Leo Rosten -- James Ryman -- Saki -- Betty Smith -- Lillian Smith -- Robert Southwell -- Robert Louis Stevenson -- Frank Stockton -- Joanna L. Stratton -- Frank Sullivan -- The Sun -- Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- William Makepeace Thackeray -- Dylan Thomas -- Henry David Thoreau -- James Thurber -- Queen Victoria -- Loudon Wainwright -- E.B. White -- Wipers Times -- William Butler Yeats.
edited by Jack Newcombe.
1982
A Christmas treasury
c2007.
1st ed.
Presents a collection of favorite holiday stories and excerpts including "The night before Christmas, " by Clement C. Moore; "Little Tree, " by e
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Hyperion,
9781401322274
Book
A family Christmas
We need a little Christmas / Letter to Santa, & Introduction / The gracious time (from Hamlet) / Psalm 8 -- Credo / Letter to Fred Allen / Relative pronouns / Keeping Christmas / White Christmas / Deck the halls Under the mistletoe / Messiah (Christmas portions) / Little tree / The Christmas tree / Christmas trees: a Christmas circular letter / A Christmas tree / Christmas party at the South Danbury Church / The loudest voice / Peace and goodwill to managers / The old scout: the season of letter-perfect families / The computer's first Christmas card / Lunch v. Donnelly, 465 U.S. 668 The holly and the ivy
Santa Claus is comin' to town / A visit from St. Nicholas / Is there a Santa Claus? ("Yes, Virginia") / Letter to Michelle Rochon / Letter from Santa Claus / Santa's stocking / Mr. Edwards Meets Santa Claus (from Little House on the Prairie) / A Chaparral Christmas gift / Santa Claus / Saint Nicholas / Saint Nicholas (from The Christmas encyclopedia) / Six to eight black men / Santaland 2006 (from Santa guide for the Macy's Santa) -- Children of the world v. Santa Claus / The deadweight loss of Christmas (from American Economic Review) / NORAD Tracks Santa (online tracking; also send Santa an email) / Father Christmas executed / Christmas in Hollis
Away in a manger / Isaiah 9:2-6 -- Luke 2: 1-20 -- Pedida da la posada : asking for lodging -- The stable / The barn / Presepio / The puppy who wanted a boy / Christmas superstitions (from Christmas in the mountains) / Christmas Eve, Nochebuena / Carol of the birds, El cant dels ocells Silent Night / Joy to the world / Christmas sparrow / Christmas Day in the morning / Christmas Day at sea / Christmas / A Christmas memory / Blond / All I want for Christmas is you / Hark! The herald angels sing / Peace / Letter to John Hancock / Christmas bells / The Christmas truce, World War I (from The London Times) -- Letter to Tommy, World War II / Telegram to the U.S. Ambassador, Moscow / A Christmas sermon on peace / Christmas e-mails from Iraq / Happy Xmas (war is over)
We wish you a Merry Christmas All you that to feasting and mirth are inclined "Amos 'n' Andy" Christmas show fails test of time (from The New York Times) / Christmas in Qatar / Christmas laughter / Penalty for keeping Christmas -- Grace defended / From Martha Washington's kitchen -- Incidents in the life of a slave girl / Christmas in the olden time / The second of the three spirits (from A Christmas carol) / Salvation Army's bounty (from the New York Times) -- Christmas every day / Christmas in the tenements / Un poquito de tu amor / Here we come a-wassaling -- O come all ye faithful / Matthew 2:1-12 -- The oxen / A Christmas carol / Carol of the Brown King / Christmas morning / The gift of the Magi / The real gifts parents can give to children / Dreams of a black Christmas / Christmas / The first Nowell -- Winter wonderland / All's Noël that ends Noël / Christ climbed down / Remembrance is sufficient / Blow, blow, thou winter wind (from As you like it)
Kennedy, Caroline, 1957-
Jerry Herman -- Caroline Kennedy -- William Shakespeare -- Edwin Arlington Robinson -- Groucho Marx -- E. B. White -- Henry van Dyke -- Irving Berlin -- (Welsh traditional carol) -- Countee Cullen -- Mark Doty -- E. E. Cummings -- Emma Lazarus -- Robert Frost -- Piri Thomas -- Donald Hall -- Grace Paley -- George Bernard Shaw -- Garrison Keillor -- Edwin Morgan -- (1984) -- (English traditional carol) --
Haven Gillespie and J. Fred Coots -- Clement Clarke Moore -- Francis P. Church -- John F. Kennedy -- Mark Twain -- Katharine Lee Bates -- Laura Ingalls Wilder -- O. Henry -- Sonny Boy Williamson -- Marianne Moore -- William D. Crump -- David Sedaris -- Andrew J. McClurg -- Joel Waldfogel -- www.noradsanta.org -- Claude Levi-Strauss -- Run-D.M.C. --
William James Kirkpatrick -- Gabriela Mistral -- Elizabeth Coatsworth -- Joseph Brodsky -- Jane Thayer -- Hubert J. Davis -- Cesar Vallejo -- (Old Spanish carol from Catalonia) -- Joseph Mohr & Franz Gruber -- Isaac Watts & G. F. Handel -- Billy Collins -- Pearl S. Buck -- Joseph Conrad -- Vladimir Nabokov -- Truman Capote -- Natasha Trethewey -- Mariah Carey & Walter Afanasieff -- Charles Wesley, George Whitefield & Martin Madan, and Felix Mendelssohn -- Henry Vaughan -- George Washington -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- Lt. Col. Ralph Noonan -- W. Averell Harriman -- Martin Luther King, Jr. -- Capt. Trent Weston & Sgt. Mike Mira -- John Lennon & Yoko Ono --
(Traditional) -- (Anonymous English Medieval) -- Henry Louis Gates, Jr. -- Calvin Trillin -- Nikki Giovanni -- Cotton Mather -- Harriet A. Jacobs -- Sir Walter Scott -- Charles Dickens -- William Dean Howells -- Theodore Dreiser -- Sandra Cisneros -- Frederick Oakeley & William Thomas Brooke and John Francis Wade -- Thomas Hardy -- Christina Rossetti -- Langston Hughes -- Elizabeth Madox Roberts -- O. Henry -- Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy -- Gwendolyn Brooks -- St. Augustine -- Richard B. Smith and Felix Bernard -- Ogden Nash -- Lawrence Ferlinghetti -- W. H. Auden -- William Shakespeare.
selected and introduced by Caroline Kennedy ; illustrated by Jon J. Muth and Laura Hartman Maestro.
2007
A family Christmas
[1973]
Illustrated compilation of writings, including poetry and short stories, on the history, the literature, and the customs of holiday celebrations
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The Reader's Digest Association
Book
The Book of Christmas.
Readers digest.
1973
The Book of Christmas.
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