Download or read book Christmas Every Day Other Christmas Stories by William Dean Howells written by William Dean Howells and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2019-12-09 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: e-artnow presents the Christmas Specials Series. We have selected the greatest Christmas novels, short stories and fairy tales for this joyful and charming holiday season, for all those who want to keep the spirit of Christmas alive with a heartwarming tale. Table of Contents: Christmas Every Day Turkeys Turning the Tables The Pony Engine and the Pacific Express The Pumpkin Glory Butterflyfutterby and Flutterbybutterfly

Download or read book Christmas Every Morning written by Lisa Tawn Bergren and published by WaterBrook. This book was released on 2002-10-15 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Krista Mueller admitted her mother to the care facility run by Dane McConnell–Krista’s friend and former love–knowing that Dane could take better care of Charlotte than Krista ever could. Besides, Krista has long since stopped actively caring about the woman who has hurt her so deeply through the years. Her intention is never to see her mother again. Then Dane informs Krista that he has found something of her mother’s that Krista simply must see. Unable to refuse the man who still means so much to her, Krista sets out for Taos–thoroughly unprepared for the dramatic journey of discovery that leads to a deeper understanding of the mother who emotionally abandoned her and brings back to the lost love of her youth. A story of joy and loss, connection and forgiveness, Christmas Every Morning presents each day as a gift to be opened and every loved one as a treasure to be rediscovered.

Download or read book Life and Letters of William Dean Howells written by William Dean Howells and published by . This book was released on 1986-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Hazard Of New Fortunes written by William Dean Howells and published by Jazzybee Verlag. This book was released on 2020 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No one can complain that in this story Mr. Howells has taken his type from the commonplace. It is a study of life in New York, and the author has brought together such a gallery of odd and strongly differentiated characters as could perhaps be found in no other city on the continent, while the conditions and phases of social life represented are not less distinctive and peculiar. The Marches, it is true, are from Boston, but they serve the purpose of external points of observation, whence to note and sufficiently to emphasize those features of our city life which of necessity strike strangers and outsiders most forcibly and with the greatest freshness of suggestion. A new magazine is founded with the money of old Dryfoos, a "natural gas millionaire," whose primary object is to give his son Conrad — a youth of saint-like character and dominant altruism — opportunity to become a businessman. The prime mover of the venture is Fulkerson, a true Western Yankee, if the phrase be allowable, whose engaging impudence, fluent slang, indomitable assurance, and substantial loyalty and goodness of heart are sure to make him as great a favorite with the reader as he is with all who know him in the story. The Marches, too, are fantastic, and nowhere has Mr. Howells better presented that peculiar American humor which finds motives for half-sarcastic jest and quip in even the most serious things, less out of lightness of heart than from an almost desperate conscious ness of hopeless incongruities and perplexities inherent in the general scheme. The picture is in itself a condemnation of and protest against that rank growth of naked materialism which is the most depressing feature of our time. The character and the faults of society are shown plainly but temperately — the spirit of levity, the love of spectacle, the repugnance to serious thinking, the absence of jealousy of popular rights, constantly encroached upon, ignored and subordinated to selfish corporate or individual interests. The aspects of the city are also most graphically and admirably described in many a wandering of the Marches, and the book exhibits an amount of local study undertaken by the author which speaks well for his conscientiousness, and adds much to the charm and permanent interest of the story. There is, as we have intimated, an unwonted variety and an unwonted force in " A Hazard of New Fortunes." If it can hardly be said to have a dominant note, it is none the less a faithful and carefully elaborated study of New York life, and it presents some of the most salient characteristics of that life in a very impressive and artistic manner. Most readers will, we think, agree with us that the change in method here shown is a change for the better. Never, certainly, has Mr. Howells written more brilliantly, more clearly, more firmly, or more attractively, than in this instance. The reversion to these strong individualizations seems to have put new vigor into his hands, and he deals with the deeper tragedies, the graver emotions of life, with a power which may perhaps be regarded as a practical demonstration of the ultimate supremacy destined to be attained by Nature over Art ; by the true over the false Realism.

Download or read book Christmas Every Day And Other Stories written by William Dean Howells and published by Jazzybee Verlag. This book was released on with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is rare fun and freshness in Mr. W. D. Howells's. 'Christmas Every Day, and Other Stories', a little volume charming for New Year or Thanksgiving. It is redolent, indeed, of all these, especially of November sweets, when turkey and cranberry sauce crown the board and pumpkin-pies smile saucily from its end. Mr. Howells shows in these tales an unexpected tenderness lurking in a corner of his capacious heart —-a tenderness for children under a veil of humor that is particularly attractive and also a grotesque yet merry fancy which cannot fail to delight them. What a delightful world is the child's world and how few there be that enter it! Mr. Howells ' touch is so light, so playful, so understanding, that it is a shame not to tickle childhood with it as this book does. The art of being-grand-père is as rare as the true moonstone. We won't spoil the feast by describing the bill-of fare, but happy infant that gets 'Christmas Every Day' like this.

Download or read book Criticism and Fiction written by William Dean Howells and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Christmas Every Day And Other Stories written by William Dean Howells and published by BoD - Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-02-23 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " The little girl came into her papa's study, as she always did Saturday morning before breakfast, and asked for a story. He tried to beg off that morning, for he was very busy, but she would not let him. So he began: “Well, once there was a little pig—” She put her hand over his mouth and stopped him at the word. She said she had heard little pig-stories till she was perfectly sick of them. “Well, what kind of story shall I tell, then?” “About Christmas. It's getting to be the season. It's past Thanksgiving already.” “It seems to me,” her papa argued, “that I've told as often about Christmas as I have about little pigs....."

Download or read book A Vintage Christmas written by Louisa May Alcott and published by HarperChristian + ORM. This book was released on 2018-10-09 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Download or read book Christmas Tales the Night Before Christmas and 21 Other Illustrated Christmas Stories written by Hans Christian Andersen and published by . This book was released on 2017-12-11 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrate the season with a fully-illustrated collection of Christmas stories from around the world! Christmas is a time to gather loved ones and share stories with each other, so Fairytalez has gathered a collection of Christmas tales for you to enjoy. You'll find beloved classics like Clement C. Moore's The Night Before Christmas, plus The Fir Tree, The Little Match Girl and more. These stories of Christmas originate not only from the United States, but also England, Denmark, Germany, Canada, Russia, Bulgaria and more, offering a look at Christmas around the world. The book contains 22 stories by Hans Christen Andersen, Lucy Maude Montgomery, Eugene Field, Laura Lee Hope, E.T.A Hoffman and other great storytellers, and features more than 70 illustrations. Enjoy this specially-designed collection of Christmas stories!List of stories, including author/editor and origin:The Night Before Christmas by Clement C. Moore, United StatesChristmas Every Day by William Dean Howells, United StatesThe Fir Tree by Hans Christen Andersen, DenmarkThe Symbol and the Saint by Eugene Field, United StatesThe Elves and the Shoemaker by the Brothers Grimm, GermanyThe Night After Christmas by Unknown, United StatesThe Osbornes' Christmas by Lucy Maude Montgomery, CanadaThe Legend of the Christmas Tree by Lucy Wheelock, United StatesThe Little Match Girl by Hans Christen Andersen, DenmarkThe Nutcracker by E.T.A Hoffman, GermanyStory of a Nodding Donkey by Laura Lee Hope, United StatesOld Father Christmas by J.H. Ewing, EnglandBoreas Bluster's Christmas Present by Mrs. W.J. Hays, EnglandBabouscka by Adelaide Skeel, RussiaA Night with Santa Claus by Anna R. Annan, United StatesPiccola by Kate Douglas Wiggin & Nora A. Smith, United StatesFather Christmas at Home by Mrs. M.H. Spielmann, United KingdomThe Animals' Christmas Tree by John P. Peters, United StatesThe Christmas Princess by Mrs. Molesworth, United KingdomThe Little Girl and the Winter Whirlwinds by Unknown, BulgariaThe Cat on the Dovrefell by Asbjørnsen & Moe, NorwayThe Bad Little Goblin's New Year by Mary Stewart, United Kingdom

Download or read book Italian Journeys written by William Dean Howells and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Christmas Eve and Christmas Day Ten Christmas stories written by Edward Everett Hale and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-04-25 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a collection of ten original Christmas stories, some of which have been published before. The author has also added a little essay, written on the occasion of the first Christmas celebrated by the King of Italy in Rome. Titles featured include 'Daily Bread', 'Love is the Whole', and 'The Survivor's Story'.

Download or read book Christmas Past written by Thomas Ruys Smith and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2021-09-15 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the modern celebration of Christmas took shape across the nineteenth century, American writers gave it new meaning in the pages of countless books and magazines. Now, for the first time, this rich anthology brings together some of the most significant of those seasonal stories to retell a forgotten tale of Christmases past. From the authors who helped define a national literary culture, to the popular sentimentalists who negotiated Christmas’s position at the center of family life, to the realists who looked to reshape American letters in the wake of the Civil War, and beyond: all varieties of American writers turned to Christmas as an inevitable and potent subject during this deeply formative period in the history of American literature. In Christmas Past, Thomas Ruys Smith brings together a diverse range of voices to showcase the many ways in which Christmas was imagined across the nineteenth century, offering images that echo down to the present. The introduction that frames the anthology provides a new literary history of Christmas, contextualizing the selections and making clear the links both between them and to the wider trajectory of American literature.

Download or read book Blacklegs Card Sharps and Confidence Men written by Thomas Ruys Smith and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2010-05 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Blacklegs, Card Sharps, and Confidence Men, Thomas Ruys Smith collects nineteenth-century stories, sketches, and book excerpts by a gallery of authors to create a comprehensive collection of writings about the riverboat gambler. The voices of canonized writers such as William Dean Howells, Herman Melville, and, inevitably, Mark Twain hold prominent positions. But they mingle seamlessly with lesser-known pieces such as an excerpt from Edward Willett's sensationalistic dime novel Flush Fred's Full Hand, raucous sketches by anonymous Old Southwestern humorists from The Spirit of the Times, and colorful accounts by now nearly forgotten authors like Daniel R. Hundley and George W. Featherstonhaugh. Smith puts the twenty-eight selections in perspective with an Introduction that for the first time thoroughly explores the history and myth surrounding this endlessly fascinating American cultural icon.

Download or read book Christmas Every Day and Other Stories Told for Children written by William Dean Howells and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christmas every day.--Turkeys turning the tables.--The pony engine and the Pacific express.--The pumpkin-glory.--Butterflyflutterby and Flutterby butterfly.

Download or read book Editor s Study written by William Dean Howells and published by Troy, N.Y. : Whitston Publishing Company. This book was released on 1983 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present edition contains a comprehensive index with cross-references and a thorough introduction revealing the details concerning the column, the corresponding period in Howells' life, and the literary milieu of these critical years in American literature. "The Editor's Study" collection offers a unique reference work to scholars interested in this important period of transition in American literature, as well as to those interested in Howells as one of America's first exponents of comparative literature.

Download or read book Venetian Life written by William Dean Howells and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Rediscover Your Holiday Sparkle 400 Christmas Novels Stories Poems Carols Legends written by Selma Lagerlöf and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-06-12 with total page 6678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Rediscover Your Holiday Sparkle: 400+ Christmas Novels, Stories, Poems, Carols & Legends' stands as an unprecedented anthology that elegantly weaves together the diverse tapestries of holiday literature. Spanning centuries and embracing a multitude of literary styles – from the transformative social narratives of Charles Dickens to the intimate poetic reflections of Emily Dickinson – this collection encompasses the profound, the heartwarming, and the magical realms of Christmas. Each piece has been meticulously selected to highlight the myriad ways in which the holiday season has inspired some of the most eminent writers in history, making this compilation a treasure trove of cultural and literary significance. The anthology's vast range of offerings ensures that every reader can find a piece that resonates, be it a story that kindles warmth or a poem that reflects on the deeper meanings of the season. The contributing authors and editors, hailing from varied times and lands, bring their unique voices to a common theme – the celebration of Christmas. Their backgrounds span the gamut of the literary spectrum, from iconic figures like Shakespeare and Tolstoy, who need no introduction, to those like Beatrix Potter and Selma Lagerlöf, whose works have touched hearts in more specific but no less significant ways. This collection aligns with various historical, cultural, and literary movements, illustrating how the holiday season has been a perennial source of inspiration across ages and cultures. The anthology thereby serves as a microcosm of global literary heritage, offering insights into the universal human condition through the lens of Christmas celebrations. Scholars and casual readers alike are invited to delve into 'Rediscover Your Holiday Sparkle' for an unparalleled exploration of Christmas as depicted in literature. This anthology not only promises to rekindle the joy and wonder of the holiday season but also offers a unique educational journey through the evolution of Christmas-themed writing. It is an essential addition to the libraries of those who appreciate the richness of holiday traditions and the powerful narratives that have shaped them over centuries. Within its pages lies the opportunity to engage with the works of legendary authors in a new light and to foster a deeper appreciation for the art of storytelling around the theme of Christmas.