The Reader's Digest book of Christmas.

Illustrated compilation of writings, including poetry and short stories, on the history, the literature, and the customs of holiday celebrations around the world.

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Formato: Libro
Idioma:English
Publicado: Montreal ; Pleasantville, NY : The Reader's Digest Association, [1973]
Subjects:
Christmas > Literary collections.
Christmas.
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Table of Contents:
  • The birth of Christ
  • Elisabeth and Zechariah
  • The Annunciation
  • The visitation
  • The nativity
  • The presentation in the temple
  • The coming of the Magi
  • The slaying of the infants
  • The history of Christmas / by Rumer Godden
  • The literature of Christmas
  • Home for Christmas / Elizabeth Bowen
  • The holy night / Selma Lagerlöf
  • Bird of dawning / William Shakespeare
  • Star of the nativity / Boris Pasternak
  • The ox and the ass at the manger / Jules Supervielle
  • Heaven cannot hold him / Christina Rossetti
  • Why the chimes rang / Raymond MacDonald Alden
  • Christmas in Maine / Robert P. Tristram Coffin
  • A letter from Santa Claus / Mark Twain
  • 'Twas the night before Christmas / Clement C. Moore
  • My first Christmas tree / Hamlin Garland
  • Christmas bells / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  • The gift of the magi / O. Henry
  • I heard a bird sing / Oliver Herford
  • The Christmas of the phonograph records / Mari Sandoz
  • Velvet shoes / Elinor Wylie
  • The fir tree / Hans Christian Andersen
  • Christmas with the pilgrims, 1620 / William Bradford
  • To Springvale for Christmas / Zona Gale
  • Christmas day at sea / Joseph Conrad
  • December / Aileen Fisher
  • The holly and the ivy, fifteenth-century English carol
  • A Christmas carol / Charles Dickens
  • Wassail song, English carol
  • A Christmas memory / Truman Capote
  • Christmas trees / Robert Frost
  • Amahl and the night visitors / Gian Carlo Menotti
  • Rather late for Christmas / Mary Ellen Chase
  • Under the mistletoe / Countee Cullen
  • An Illinois Christmas in the 1880's / Isabella Maud Rittenhouse
  • Stubby Pringle's Christmas / Jack Schaefer
  • Carols in the Cotswolds / Laurie Lee
  • Christmas tree / E.E. Cummings
  • Christmas closes a gulf / Moss Hart
  • A Christmas alphabet / Marion Conger
  • Signor Santa / Jo Pagano
  • A large Christmas / Lillian Smith
  • New relations and duties / Frederick Douglass
  • Carol of the brown king / Langston Hughes
  • Jesous Ahatonhia (Huron Indian Carol) / Father Jean de Brébeuf
  • Christmas morning / Frank O'Connor
  • George Washington's Christmas list
  • Francie Nolan's Christmas tree / Betty Smith
  • The ballad of Befana / Phyllis McGinley
  • Christmas meditation of a young student / Pope John XXIII
  • Christmas around the world
  • Introduction
  • Germany and Austria
  • Italy
  • France
  • Sweden
  • Spain
  • Poland
  • Middle East
  • Great Britain
  • Mexico
  • Christmas in my country : children's art.

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