Author: Edwards, Owen Dudley. Richardson, Graham
Title: Christmas observed: a literary selection / edited by Owen Dudley Edwards and Graham Richardson
Description: Edinburgh: Polygon 1981. 1st Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine. very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper. now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight. bright. clean and strong. Physical description: 211 pages; 21 cm. Contents: On the morning of Christ's nativity / John Milton -- Christmas carol/ Traditional -- Ane sang of the birth of Christ/ Traditional -- Preparations / Anon. -- Nativitie/ John Donne -- The innumerable Christ / Hugh MacDiarmid -- Christ ran stumbling/ Anthony Ross -- Long day's journey into prayer/ Conor Cruise O'Brien -- The flying stars/ G.K. Chesterton --Markheim / Robert Louis Stevenson -- Christmas at sea / Robert Louis Stevenson -- Christmas in India / Rudyard Kipling -- An exciting Christmas Eve / Arthur Conan Doyle -- Sundered hearts / P.G. Wodehouse -- Vera's first Christmas adventure / Arnold Bennett --Reginald's Christmas revel / Saki -- A Christmas letter/ Stephen Leacock -- From the diaries / Samuel Pepys -- Sir Roger on Christmas / Joseph Addison -- From the history of England/ Thomas Babington Macaulay -- All quiet for Christmas / Piers Compton -- Christmas. 1915 / Percy Mackaye -- To my daughter Betty / T.M. Kettle -- Christmas. 1924 / Thomas Hardy -- The Christmas banquet / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The applicant / Ambrose Bierce -- Christmas Eve / Guy de Maupassant -- A Christmass pye / Anon. -- The gospel according to St. Luke. Subjects: Christmas; Literary collections. Christmas stories. Christmas; Poetry. English literature (Selections: Extracts. etc.). ISBN: 0904919536.

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