A Christmas treasury

Newcombe, Jack. (Added Author).

Record details

ISBN: 0670221104
Physical Description: print
xx, 474 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Publisher: New York : Viking Press, 1982.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

The fir tree / H.C. Andersen -- Saint Stephen was a clerk ; I saw three ships / Anonymous -- The cat on the Doverfell / P.C. AsbjoÌrnsen and J. Moe -- The ghost of Christmas Eve / J.M. Barrie -- Of argonauts and holly weaths / J. Baur -- The white road / E.F. Bozman -- Christmas Eve / R. Browning -- A Christmas memory / T. Capote -- December night / W. Cather -- Christmas is a sad season for the poor / J. Cheever -- What was the Christmas star? / A.C. Clarke -- Christmas in Maine / R.P.T Coffin -- The Christmas tree / S.T. Coleridge -- Christmas Eve / A. Cooke -- The Christmas gift / J. Coons -- A Christmas dinner won in battle / S. Crane -- Little tree / E.E. Cummings -- Santa Claus / W. de la Mare -- A Christmas chapter ; The holly-tree / C. Dickens -- The Festival of St. Nicholas / M.M. Dodge -- A little boy at Christ's Chrismas tree / F. Dostoevsky -- An Iowa Christmas / P. Engle -- A Christmas gift of music, long ago / H. Fantel -- The first Christmas tree / E. Field -- Christmas trees / R. Frost -- Dulce domum / K. Grahame -- The oxen ; Mellstock-Lane ; Going the rounds ; The listeners / T. Hardy -- How Santa Claus came to Simpson's Bar / B. Harte -- Gifts of the Magi / O. Henry -- Ceremonies for Candelmas / R. Herrick -- On lending a punch-bowl / O.W. Holmes -- The inexhaustability of the subject of Christmas / L. Hunt -- New-fashioned Christmas / A. Huxley -- Christmas Eve / W. Irving -- Paris, Christmas, 1876 / H. James -- Christmas Eve / J. Joyce -- A letter at Christmastime / J. Keats -- A schoolboy's holiday / C. Lamb -- Old folks' Christmas / R.Lardner -- Joy in Freetown / E. Lewis -- Valley Forge : 24 December 1777 / F. Van Wyck Mason -- Dear Madam: We know that you will want to contribute... ; Office party ; Lady selecting her Christmas catrds / P. McGinley -- Shakespeare's Christmas gift to Queen Bess in 1596 / A.B. McMahan -- Merry Christmas / H. Melville -- Christmas story / H.L. Mencken -- A hint for next Christmas / A.A. Milne -- On the morning of Christ's nativity / J. Milton -- A visit from St. Nicholas / C.C. Moore -- The Christmas tobacco ; The tree that didn't get trimmed / C. Morley -- The Christmas that almost wasn't / O. Nash -- Our crafty little Christmas / J. Neary -- The Christmas football match / Oswestry observer -- Celebration in Cherokee Flats / G. Parks -- The Chrsitmas bird count / G. Plimpton -- A Christmas story / K.A. Porter -- The tailor of Gloucester / B. Potter -- The kid hangs up his stocking / J. Riis -- Karma / E.A. Robinson -- Christmas / E. Rossevelt -- Mr. K*A*P*L*A*N and the Magi / L. Rosten -- I am Christmas ; Now is the time of Christmas / J. Ryman -- Reginald's Christmas revel / Saki -- A Brooklyn Christmas / B. Smith -- Tree-shaking day / L. Smith -- The burning babe / R. Southwell -- Christmas at sea / R.L. Stevenson -- The Christmas wreck / F. Stockton -- Christmas on the frontier / J.L. Stratton -- Crisp new bills for Mr. Teagle / F. Sullivan -- Is the a Santa Claus? / The sun -- In memoriam of A.H.H. / Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- Doctor Birch and his young friends / W.M. Thackeray -- Conversation about Christmas / D. Thomas -- A winter walk / H.D. Thoreau -- Merry Christmas / James T. -- Christmas at Claremont / Queen Victoria -- The annual crisis of love / L. Wainwright -- The distant music of the hounds / E.B. White -- An editorial on Chrsitmas Day, 1917 / Wipers times -- The Magi / W.B. Yeats.