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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Język: | English |
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Montreal ; Pleasantville, NY :
The Reader's Digest Association,
[1973]
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Spis treści:
- 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.