Archiv der Kategorie: Christmas (English)

Miss Muffet’s Christmas Party – S. McChord Crothers

The author seems to hold the “master word” that calls the people of fairyland and all the realms of fancy. With it he gathers at Miss Muffet’s party all the children’s favorites: Alice and her Friends from Wonderland, Sinbad the Sailor and the Forty Thieves, Mowgli and Bagheera, Rollo, Uncle Remus, Grimm’s company, Hans Christian Andersen’s heroes, and many others.

Miss Muffet’s Christmas Party

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Miss Muffet’s Christmas Party.

ISBN: 9783849692315

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Christmas customs and traditions (from Wikipedia):

The celebratory customs associated in various countries with Christmas have a mix of pre-Christian, Christian, and secular themes and origins. Popular modern customs of the holiday include … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

By The Christmas Fire – S. McChord Crothers

Four essays packed full of common sense which here as elsewhere is really very uncommon sense. Mr. Crothers thrusts his gentle spear down to the deepest reaches of many sham philosophies without appearing to be a philosopher at all. His fashion of making figures or metaphors do his work, and the witty way in which he turns them over or dresses them up result in a style that is charming. For wholesome and elevating views carried home in a most alluring rhetoric these essays are incomparable. “The Bayonet Poker” hinges on an old bayonet converted into a fire-poker as a lesson that evil of the universe and its regeneration are not all … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

The Little City Of Hope – F. Marion Crawford

The hero is an American who has given up his promising career as a professor of mathematics in order to devote himself to the perfecting of an air motor which he has invented. After his money is gone his wife becomes governess and his boy spends his time constructing a little model of the college town his father has left. This they name the “City of Hope” and through it comes to them a Christmas blessing.

The Little City Of Hope

Format: Paperback.

The Little City Of Hope.

ISBN: 9783849692292

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Christmas customs and traditions (from Wikipedia):

The celebratory customs associated in various countries with … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

The Baron’s Yule Feast – Thomas Cooper

The “Baron’s Yule Feast” is, the author states,” a metrical essay, composed chiefly of imperfect and immature pieces,” some of them written “many years ago:” but which have no doubt been more or less touched in adapting them to the purposes of a poetical Christmas entertainment. The scene of the poem is laid in the baron’s hall of Torksey, in Lincolnshire, which is revived with all the festivities of a Christmas of the olden time. Opportunity is here afforded for the introduction of various songs or narratives in the ballad style. Passing over these, there are a few lines, the concluding ones of the poem, that arrest the reader’s attention, and which are … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

Old Christmas – Washington Irving

This book includes the following stories from “The Sketch Book of Washington Irving”:

Christmas
The Stage Coach
Christmas Eve
Christmas Day
The Christmas Dinner

Old Christmas

Format: Paperback.

Old Christmas.

ISBN: 9783849692278

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Christmas customs and traditions (from Wikipedia):

The celebratory customs associated in various countries with Christmas have a mix of pre-Christian, Christian, and secular themes and origins. Popular modern customs of the holiday include gift giving, completing an Advent calendar or Advent wreath, Christmas music and caroling, lighting a Christingle, viewing a Nativity play, an exchange of Christmas cards, church services, a special meal, and the display of various Christmas decorations, including Christmas trees, Christmas lights, nativity … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

A Righte Merrie Christmasse – John Ashton

The very warm cover suggests a seasonable book. And behold, we are right. “A Righte Merrie Christmasse”, by John Ashton, who, fancying that some of its customs and privileges might be forgotten, collects all that has been done or could be done at this annual event.

A Righte Merrie Christmasse

Format: Paperback.

A Righte Merrie Christmasse.

ISBN: 9783849692261

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Christmas customs and traditions (from Wikipedia):

The celebratory customs associated in various countries with Christmas have a mix of pre-Christian, Christian, and secular themes and origins. Popular modern customs of the holiday include gift giving, completing an Advent calendar or Advent wreath, Christmas music and caroling, lighting … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

A Christmas Greeting – H. C. Andersen

This volume includes a series of Christmas stories by the well-known Danish fairytale author H. C. Andersen:

The Old House.
The Drop Of Water.
The Happy Family.
The Story Of A Mother
The False Collar.
The Shadow.
The Old Street-Lamp.
The Dream Of Little Tuk.
The Naughty Boy

and more…

A Christmas Greeting

Format: Paperback.

A Christmas Greeting.

ISBN: 9783849692391

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Christmas customs and traditions (from Wikipedia):

The celebratory customs associated in various countries with Christmas have a mix of pre-Christian, Christian, and secular themes and origins. Popular modern customs of the holiday include gift giving, completing an Advent calendar or Advent wreath, Christmas music and caroling, … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

The Abbot’s Ghost – Louisa May Alcott

A beautiful Christmas story, including a forbidden romance, a ghost, a magic recovery and lots of intrigues.

The Abbot’s Ghost

Format: Paperback.

The Abbot’s Ghost.

ISBN: 9783849692384

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Christmas customs and traditions (from Wikipedia):

The celebratory customs associated in various countries with Christmas have a mix of pre-Christian, Christian, and secular themes and origins. Popular modern customs of the holiday include gift giving, completing an Advent calendar or Advent wreath, Christmas music and caroling, lighting a Christingle, viewing a Nativity play, an exchange of Christmas cards, church services, a special meal, and the display of various Christmas decorations, including Christmas trees, Christmas lights, nativity scenes, garlands, wreaths, … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...