Download or read book Christmas Stories Annotated written by Charles Dickens and published by . This book was released on 2021-02-22 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Christmas Stories"" is a collection of Christmas themed short stories by Charles Dickens written between 1850 and 1853. This magnificent tales came 10 years after Dickens had written one of the most famous Christmas stories of all time, ""A Christmas Carol.""This edition contains six stories in all, being: ""A Christmas Tree"" (1850); ""What Christmas is as we Grow Older"" (1851); ""The Poor Relation's Story"" (1852); ""The Child's Story"" (1852); ""The Schoolboy's Story"" (1853); and, ""Nobody's Story"" (1853)."

Download or read book Some Christmas Stories Annotated written by Charles Charles Dickens and published by . This book was released on 2018-01-16 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *This Book is annotated (it contains a detailed biography of the author). *An active Table of Contents has been added by the publisher for a better customer experience. *This book has been checked and corrected for spelling errors. ContentsA Christmas tree -- What Christmas is as we grow older -- The poor relation's story -- The child's story -- The schoolboy's story -- Nobody's story.

Download or read book Christmas Every Day and Other Stories written by William Dean Howells and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-09-26 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christmas and other stories told for children from the works of W.D. Howells

Download or read book Ghosts of Christmas Past written by Neil Gaiman and published by John Murray. This book was released on 2017-10-19 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A present contains a monstrous secret. An uninvited guest haunts a Christmas party. A shadow slips across the floor by firelight. A festive entertainment ends in darkness and screams. Who knows what haunts the night at the dark point of the year? This collection of seasonal chillers looks beneath Christmas cheer to a world of ghosts and horrors, mixing terrifying modern fiction with classic stories by masters of the macabre. From Neil Gaiman and M. R. James to Muriel Spark and E. Nesbit, there are stories here to make the hardiest soul quail - so find a comfy chair, lock the door, ignore the cold breath on your neck and get ready to welcome in the real spirits of Christmas.

Download or read book Christmas Eve and Christmas Day Annotated written by Edward Everett Hale and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-13 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a collection of ten Christmas Stories, some of which have been published before. I have added a little essay, written on the occasion of the first Christmas celebrated by the King of Italy in Rome.

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Download or read book Annotated Christmas Carol written by Charles Dickens and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2004 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The celebrated annotator of "The Wizard of Oz" and "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" has now prepared a sumptuous new edition of the Dickens classic.

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Download or read book Life and Adventures of Santa Claus Annotated written by Lyman Frank Baum and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2020-07-20 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Kidnapped Santa Claus is a Christmas-themed short story by American writer L. Frank Baum; it has been called "one of Baum's most beautiful stories" and constitutes an influential contribution to the mythology of Christmas."A Kidnapped Santa Claus" was first published in the December 1904 edition of The Delineator, the women's magazine that would print Baum's Animal Fairy Tales in the following year. The magazine text was "admirably illustrated" with "pen drawings of marked originality" by Frederick Richardson, who would illustrate Baum's Queen Zixi of Ix in 1905.

Download or read book A CHRISTMAS CAROL ANNOTATED a Ghost Story of Christmas ANNOTATED written by Charles DICKENS and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-09 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this luminous picture book adaptation of Charles Dickens' immortal classic, the story of Ebenezer Scrooge leaps off the page to warm the soul of one and all. Be swept away in an unforgettable Christmas Eve, from Scrooge's first "Bah, humbug " to the arrival of the Ghost of Christmas Past; from the courage of Tiny Tim to the glory of Christmas morning. Brett Helquist's art bursts with spirit, humor, and an irresistible attention to detail. Here is a treasure for the whole family to share, year after year. A merry Christmas, everyone...

Download or read book Christmas Eve and Christmas Day Ten Christmas Stories Annotated written by E. E. Hale and published by . This book was released on 2020-05-14 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christmas, Christian festival celebrating the birth of Jesus. English term Christmas ("mass on Christ's day") is of fairly recent origin. the sooner term Yule may have derived from the Germanic jōl or the Anglo-Saxon geōl, which mentioned the feast of the solstice . The corresponding terms in other languages--Navidad in Spanish, Natale in Italian, Noël in French--all probably denote nativity. The German word Weihnachten denotes "hallowed night." Since the first 20th century, Christmas has also been a secular family holiday, observed by Christians and non-Christians alike, barren of Christian elements, and marked by an increasingly elaborate exchange of gifts. during this secular Christmas celebration, a mythical figure named Santa Claus plays the pivotal role.

Download or read book A Christmas Carol Annotated written by Charles Dickens and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-20 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Special Annotated Editon Includes the Following: An In-Depth Guide to Charles Dickens' Life Including Life, Literary Work, and Legacy. Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol Is Back in this Special Annotated Edition That Retells The Story of Charles Dickens in the Way The Original Author Intended. A Christmas Carol Is A Classic Christmas Story That Will Surely Entertain the Whole Family With The Spirit of Christmas!Grab This Timeless Work of Fiction Today.

Download or read book A Christmas Carol written by Charles Dickens and published by Everyman's Library. This book was released on 1994-09-27 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gorgeous hardcover edition of the timeless holiday classic, featuring stunning full-color illustrations by Arthur Rackham, with a gilt-stamped cloth cover, acid-free paper, sewn bindings, and a silk ribbon marker. No holiday season is complete without Charles Dickens's dramatic and heartwarming story of the transformation of miserly Ebenezer Scrooge through the efforts of the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future. Set on a cold Christmas Eve in Victorian London, and featuring Scrooge's long-suffering and mild-mannered clerk, Bob Cratchit; Bob’s kindhearted son, Tiny Tim; and a host of colorful characters, A Christmas Carol was an instant hit and has been beloved ever since by generations of readers of all ages.

Download or read book A Kidnapped Santa Claus Annotated written by Lyman Frank Baum and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Kidnapped Santa Claus is a Christmas-themed short story by American writer L. Frank Baum; it has been called "one of Baum's most beautiful stories" and constitutes an influential contribution to the mythology of Christmas."A Kidnapped Santa Claus" was first published in the December 1904 edition of The Delineator, the women's magazine that would print Baum's Animal Fairy Tales in the following year. The magazine text was "admirably illustrated" with "pen drawings of marked originality" by Frederick Richardson, who would illustrate Baum's Queen Zixi of Ix in 1905.

Download or read book A CHRISTMAS CAROL A Ghost Story of Christmas ANNOTATED written by Charles Dickens and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-18 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this luminous picture book adaptation of Charles Dickens' immortal classic, the story of Ebenezer Scrooge leaps off the page to warm the soul of one and all. Be swept away in an unforgettable Christmas Eve, from Scrooge's first "Bah, humbug " to the arrival of the Ghost of Christmas Past; from the courage of Tiny Tim to the glory of Christmas morning. Brett Helquist's art bursts with spirit, humor, and an irresistible attention to detail. Here is a treasure for the whole family to share, year after year. A merry Christmas, everyone...

Download or read book Old Christmas Annotated written by Washington Irving and published by . This book was released on 2021-04 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Old Christmas is a tale of the quaint and old English traditions of celebrating Christmas. Irving travels to the English countryside and meets an old schoolmate, who invites him home to spend Christmas at the family estate.