A vintage Christmas : a collection of classic stories and poems.

Format: Print Book 2018
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Carnegie Library of McKeesport Nonfiction 808.83 V79
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CLP - Main Library Second Floor - Non-fiction IN TRANSIT
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Summary


This beautiful, giftable Christmas collection features old-fashioned works from classic authors who invite you to a feast of holiday nostalgia.

Filled with stories that have been part of the Christmas season for generations, A Vintage Christmas is a unique collection of lesser-known Christmas tales, reflections, and poems from beloved authors across the centuries and makes the perfect gift for the reader in your life. This beautiful treasury will take you back to firesides, simple gifts, and warm family moments of Christmases past as you cherish the timeless truths and joys of the season.

Discover a charming story from L. M. Montgomery about love and sacrifice in a little log house. See Christmas through the eyes of a child in a New England colonial village with Harriet Beecher Stowe. Remember the reason Christ came to earth in the poetry of Anne Brontë. Share with your family the delightful letter Mark Twain wrote as Santa Claus to his three-year-old daughter.

A Vintage Christmas includes stories from Louisa May Alcott, Charles Dickens, Ralph Henry Barbour, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Mark Twain, L. M. Montgomery, and William Dean Howells, as well as poems from Eliza Cook, Christina Rossetti, William Makepeace Thackeray, Joyce Kilmer, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

A Vintage Christmas is a timeless reminder that the heart of the holiday never changes.

Hardcover, giftable size Perfect as a stocking stuffer and host or hostess gift Filled with hopeful and encouraging Christmas stories Makes a lovely keepsake companion to A Classic Christmas and A Timeless Christmas
Contents
Stories and sketches: A Christmas dream, and how it came to be true ; A country Christmas / Louisa May Alcott
Christmas at Red Butte ; A Christmas inspiration ; A Christmas mistake ; Aunt Cyrilla's Christmas basket / L.M. Montgomery
Christmas every day / William Dean Howells
Christmas; or, The good fairy ; Christmas in Poganuc / Harriet Beecher Stowe
A Christmas dinner / Charles Dickens
A letter from Santa Claus / Mark Twain
The story of Christmas / Kate Douglas Wiggin and Nora A. Smith
A college Santa Claus / Ralph Henry Barbour. Poems: Christmas bells / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Christmas tide / Eliza Cook
A Christmas carol / Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Music on Christmas morning / Anne Brontë
Ring out, wild bells (from In memoriam) / Alfred Lord Tennyson
The mahogany tree / William Makepeace Thackeray
A Christmas carol / Christina Rossetti
Christmas in the heart / Paul Laurence Dunbar
Noel : Christmas Eve 1913 / Robert Bridges
Wartime Christmas / Joyce Kilmer.

Additional Information
Subjects Christmas -- Literary collections.
Christmas stories, American.
Christmas stories, English.
Christmas poetry, American.
Christmas poetry, English.
Christmas fiction.
Christmas poetry.
Short stories.
Poetry.
Publisher [Nashville, Tennessee] :Thomas Nelson,2018
Language English
Description vii, 320 pages ; 19 cm
ISBN 9780785224136
0785224130
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