Christmas Classics From The Modern Library

Author : Modern Library (Firm)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780679602828
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Christmas Classics from the Modern Library written by Modern Library (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of stories, poems, songs and carols, celebrating the Christmas season.

Author : Modern Library
Publisher : Modern Library
ISBN 13 : 9780679602774
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Christmas Classics from the Modern Library written by Modern Library and published by Modern Library. This book was released on 1997-12-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This little treasury of Christmas favorites from the Modern Library is our selection of stories, songs, carols, poems, and more to gladden the heart for the festive season. It is ideal to be dipped into for reading aloud--perhaps around a Christmas tree or in front of a fire in happy re-creation of a holiday scene that Charles Dickens might have described. Beginning with the Bible stories of Christ's Nativity, Christmas Classics leads us on a joyous journey. The beloved stories "The Gift of the Magi" by O. Henry and "The Fir Tree" by Hans Christian Andersen, along with a Christmas mystery with Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, accompany extracts from Dickens's A Christmas Carol and The Pickwick Papers as well as the opening sections of Louisa May Alcott's Little Women. The beautiful devotional verses of John Donne and John Milton are included, together with seasonal offerings from poets like Tennyson, Longfellow, Walt Whitman, Sir Walter Scott, Clement Clarke Moore, and Robert Louis Stevenson. And the songs and carols that mean Christmas to so many of us are here: "Oh Come, All Ye Faithful," "The Twelve Days of Christmas," and "Jingle Bells." Selections from the holiday chronicles of Samuel Pepys, the seventeenth-century English diarist, and recipes from Mrs. Beeton's Victorian kitchen--staples like plum pudding and mince pies--complete this bo ok of yuletide cheer. Christmas Classics from the Modern Library is a delightful book to give and to receive and will become a family favorite for countless Christmases yet to come. The Modern Library has played a significant role in American cultural life for the better part of a century. The series was founded in 1917 bythe publishers Boni and Liveright and eight years later acquired by Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer. It provided the foun-dation for their next publishing venture, Random House. The Modern Library has been a staple of the American book trade, providing readers with affordable hard-bound editions of important works of liter-ature and thought. For the Modern Library's seventy-fifth anniversary, Random House redesigned the series, restoring as its emblem the running torchbearer created by Lucian Bernhard in 1925 and refurbishing jackets, bindings, and type, as well as inau-gurating a new program of selecting titles. The Modern Library continues to provide the world's best books, at the best prices. "From the Trade Paperback edition.

Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.KK/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Christmas Stories written by Charles Dickens and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Hollander
Publisher : Everyman's Library
ISBN 13 : 0375407898
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Christmas Poems written by John Hollander and published by Everyman's Library. This book was released on 1999-10-26 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christmas is both a holiday and a holy day, and from the start it has been associated with poetry, from the song of the seraphim above the manger to the cherished carols around the punch bowl. This garland of Christmas poems contains not only the ones you would insist on finding here ("A Visit from St. Nicholas," "Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming," and "The Twelve Days of Christmas" among them) but such equally enchanting though lesser-known Yuletide treasures as Emily Dickinson's "The Savior must have been a docile Gentleman," Anthony Hecht's "Christmas Is Coming," Rudyard Kipling's "Christmas in India," Langston Hughes's "Shepherd's Song at Christmas," Robert Graves's "The Christmas Robin," and happy surprises like Phyllis McGinley's "Office Party," Dorothy Parker's "The Maid-Servant at the Inn," and Philip Larkin's "New Year Poem."

Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Christmas Books written by Charles Dickens and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ace Collins
Publisher : Zondervan
ISBN 13 : 0310873878
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stories Behind the Best-Loved Songs of Christmas written by Ace Collins and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2010-05-04 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Behind the Christmas songs we love to sing lie fascinating stories that will enrich your holiday celebration. Taking you inside the nativity of over thirty favorite songs and carols, Ace Collins introduces you to people you’ve never met, stories you’ve never heard, and meanings you’d never have imagined. The next time you and your family sing "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen," you’ll have a new understanding of its message and popular roots. You’ll discover how "Angels from the Realms of Glory," with its sublime lyrics and profound theology, helped usher in a quiet revolution in worship. You’ll learn the strange history of the haunting and powerful "O Holy Night," including the song’s surprising place in the history of modern communications. And you’ll step inside the life of Mark Lowry and find out how he came to pen the words to the contemporary classic "Mary, Did You Know?"Still other songs such as "O Come, O Come, Emmanuel" trace back to mysterious origins--to ninth-century monks, nameless clergy, and unknown commoners of ages past. Joining hands with such modern favorites as "White Christmas" and "The Christmas Song," they are part of the legacy of inspiration, faith, tears, love, and spiritual joy that is Christmas. From the rollicking appeal of "Jingle Bells" to the tranquil beauty of "Silent Night," the great songs of Christmas contain messages of peace, hope, and truth. Each in its own way expresses a facet of God’s heart and celebrates the birth of his greatest gift to the world--Jesus, the most wonderful Christmas Song of all.

Author : Truman Capote
Publisher : Knopf Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 0385392761
Total Pages : 49 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Christmas Memory written by Truman Capote and published by Knopf Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2014-10-28 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reminiscence of a Christmas shared by a seven-year-old boy and a sixtyish childlike woman, with enormous love and friendship between them.

Author : Karal Ann Marling
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674040625
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Merry Christmas! Celebrating AmericaÕs Greatest Holiday written by Karal Ann Marling and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It wouldn't be Christmas without the "things." How they came to mean so much, and to play such a prominent role in America's central holiday, is the tale told in this delightful and edifying book. In a style characteristically engaging and erudite, Karal Ann Marling, one of our most trenchant observers of American culture, describes the outsize spectacle that Christmas has become.

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Publisher : Alfred Music
ISBN 13 : 9780739082485
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book This Holy Night: 12 Christmas Classics for Guitar (Guitar Tab), Book & CD written by and published by Alfred Music. This book was released on 2011-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Holy Night features 12 songs and medleys arranged for solo guitar. Each arrangement is in perfect harmony with the beauty and reverence of the season; and yet still easily playable by any intermediate-level guitarist. Each song is fully notated in standard notation, and TAB with chord fingering grids throughout---making these perfectly suited for all fingerstyle and classical guitarists. A beautiful demonstration CD, recorded by the author, is also included. The exclusive TNT (Tone 'N' Tempo) software allows you to slow tracks down, isolate and loop specific sections, and even change keys if you need to! This collection is ideal for school and church recitals, Christmas celebrations, and just for the fun of it. Titles: Angels We Have Heard on High * Away in a Manger * Christmas Again / Hark, The Herald Angels Sing / Ave Maria / Joy to the World * Gesu Bambino / Angels from the Realms of Glory * It Came Upon the Midnight Clear * O Come All Ye Faithful * O Holy Night * O Little Town of Bethlehem * Silent Night * The First Noel * We Three Kings of Orient Are / God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen * What Child Is This?

Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 840 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Christmas Books, and Reprinted Pieces written by Charles Dickens and published by . This book was released on 1880* with total page 840 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: