The Christmas reader
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The Christmas reader
(Penguin books)
Penguin, 1986, c1985
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Note
Originally published: London : Viking, 1985
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
A Christmas anthology stemming from correspondence in Godfrey Smith's Sunday Times column - old favourites and some surprises but the criterion for selection usually being that it can be read aloud. The range goes from Dickens to O'Henry, from a Christmas Carol to T.S. Eliot.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Golden gifts for all: Laurie Lee - "Cider With Rosie"
- Dylan Thomas - "A Child's Christmas in Wales"
- Thomas Hardy - "Under the Greenwood Tree". Part 2 We don't want your Christmas pudding: George R. Sims, "Christmas Day in the Workhouse"
- Billy Bennett - "Christmas Day in the Cookhouse"
- Stanley Holloway - "Old Sam's Christmas Pudding"
- Edmund Gosse - "Father and Son". Part 3 This most tremendous tale of all: John Betjeman - "Christmas"
- Thomas Hardy - "The Oxen"
- C. Day Lewis - "The Christmas Tree"
- Louis MacNeice - "Christmas Shopping". Part 4 Now one time it comes on Christmas: Willa Cather - "My Antonia"
- Truman Capote - "A Christmas Memory"
- O. Henry - "The Gift of the Magi"
- Damon Runyon - "Dancing Dan's Christmas"
- Alistair Cooke - "Christmas in Vermont". Part 5 Indeed, our fathers were very wise: Hilaire Belloc - "A Remaining Christmas"
- Harold Macmillan - "Christmas at Chatsworth"
- Washington Irving - "The Christmas Dinner". Part 5 The frailty of Father Balaguere: Lawrence Durrell - "Monsieur"
- George du Maurier - "Trilby"
- Alphonse Daudet - "The Three Low Masses". Part 6 A partridge in a pear tree: "The Twelve Days of Christmas"
- Phyllis McGinley - "All the Days of Christmas"
- John Julius Norwich - "The Twelve Days of Christmas". Part 7 I have acquired some nice Christmas loot: Noel Coward - "Diary for Christmas day 1955"
- George Bernard Shaw - "An Atrocious Institution"
- George Orwell - "It is a Debauch"
- Kingsley Amis - "Ending Up". Part 8 I sing of a maiden: William Shakespeare - "Hamlet, I, i"
- Nicholas Breton - "A Christmas Song"
- Anon, 15th century - "I Sing of a Maiden"
- Robert Herrick - "A Christmas Carol"
- Rudyard Kipling - "Christmas in India"
- Algernon Swinburne - "Three Damsels in the Queen's Chamber". Part 9 Where was the ecstasy?: George Eliot, "The Mill on the Floss"
- D.H. Lawrence - "The Rainbow"
- Sue Townsend - "The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole". Part 10 Everyone suddenly burst out singing: Malcolm Brown and Shirley Seaton - "Christmas Truce"
- Norman Longmate (ed) - "How We Lived". Part contents.
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