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A Christmas treasury
Publisher
Viking Press
Publication Date
©1982
Language
English
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Wadleigh Memorial Library - Nonfiction - Adult Nonfiction
394.2663 Chr
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394.2663 Chr
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From the Book
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.
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9780670221103
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