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Before Christmas. A visit from St Nicholas / Clement Clarke Moore -- from The Feast of St Friend / Arnold Bennett -- The gypsy / Edward Thomas -- from Sons and lovers / D.H. Lawrence -- from Cider with Rosie / Laurie Lee -- from The River Duddon / William Wordsworth -- from Wuthering Heights / Emily Bronte -- from A Christmas Carol / Charles Dickens -- The oxen / Thomas Hardy -- Bertie's Christmas Eve / Saki -- The Nativity. A Christmas carol / Christina Rossetti -- from On the morning of Christ's Nativity / John Milton -- from The Virgin Mary to the Child Jesus / Elizabeth Barrett Browning -- A Christmas Carol / G.K. Chesterton -- Nativity / John Donne -- Christmas day. from his Diary / Samuel Pepys -- Music on Christmas morning / Anne Bronte -- from Orley Farm / Anthony Trollope -- Christmas at sea / Robert Louis Stevenson -- from The mill on the Floss / George Eliot -- Christmas in India / Rudyard Kipling -- The mistletoe bough / Thomas Haynes Bayly -- from Christmas pudding / Nancy Mitford -- Christmas fare. from "Old Christmas" in The sketch book of Washington Irving / Washington Irving -- from A Christmas carol / Charles Dickens -- Christmas husbandly fare, from Five hundred pointes of good husbandrie / Thomas Tusser -- Talking turkeys!! / Benjamin Zephaniah -- Another Christmas carol / P.G. Wodehouse -- Christmas at war. Christmas bells / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- A Christmas ghost-story / Thomas Hardy -- A Christmas prayer / Cyril Winterbotham -- The truce of Christmas / G.K. Chesterton -- The holly on the wall / W.H. Davies -- A child's Christmas. from A child's Christmas in Wales / Dylan Thomas -- from The Wind in the Willows / Kenneth Grahame -- The carol of the poor children / Richard Middleton -- from Little Women / Louisa May Alcott -- The lost boy / George Mackay Brown -- Seasonal snow and ice. from his Diary / John Evelyn -- from Trivia, or, The art of walking the streets of London / John Gay -- from English hours / Henry James -- from As you like it / William Shakespeare -- from Emma / Jane Austen -- The mahogany tree / William Makepeace Thackeray -- from The Pickwick papers / Charles Dickens -- New Year. Dirge for the year / Percy Bysshe Shelley -- Ceremony upon Candlemas Eve / Robert Herrick -- Sonnet / Thomas Hood -- Ring out, wild bells, from In memoriam / Alfred Tennyson. |
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Christmas -- Literary collections.
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Christmas poetry.
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Christmas stories.
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Christmas poetry.
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Christmas fiction.
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| Cover Ti |
Literary Christmas : an anthology. |
| ISBN |
9780712352765 (hardcover) |
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0712352767 (hardcover) |
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