It is filled with classics (Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus, 'Twas the Night Before Christmas) as well as others you may never have heard of. Primarily prose, there are also poems by ee cummings and Robert Frost. Selections are ordered alphabetically by author so you get a wonderful juxtaposition of material as you page through works by Arthur C. Clarke, Dylan Thomas and many many others.

The fir tree / HansChristian Andersen --
Saint Stephen was a clerk ; I saw three ships / Anonymous --
The cat on the Doverfell / Peter Christen Asbjörnsen and Jörgen Moe --
The ghost of Christmas Eve / J.M. Barrie --
Of argonauts and holly weaths / John Baur --
The white road / E.F. Bozman --
Christmas Eve / Robert Browning --
A Christmas memory / Truman Capote --
December night / Willa Cather --
Christmas is a sad season for the poor / John Cheever --
What was the Christmas star? / Arthur C. Clarke --
Christmas in Maine / Robert P. Tristram Coffin --
The Christmas tree / Samuel T. Coleridge --
Christmas Eve / Alistair Cooke --
The Christmas gift / Joan Coons --
A Christmas dinner won in battle / Stephen Crane --
Little tree / E.E. Cummings --
Santa Claus / Walter de la Mare --
A Christmas chapter ; The holly-tree / Charles Dickens --
The Festival of St. Nicholas / Mary Mapes Dodge --
A little boy at Christ's Christmas tree / Feodor Dostoevsky --
An Iowa Christmas / Paul Engle --
A Christmas gift of music, long ago / Hans Fantel --
The first Christmas tree / Eugene Field --
Christmas trees / Robert Frost --
Dulce domum / Kenneth Grahame --
The oxen ; Mellstock-Lane ; Going the rounds ; The listeners / Thomas Hardy --
How Santa Claus came to Simpson's Bar / Bret Harte --
Gifts of the Magi / O. Henry --
Ceremonies for Candelmas / Robert Herrick --
On lending a punch-bowl / Oliver Wendell Holmes --
The inexhaustability of the subject of Christmas / Leigh Hunt --
New-fashioned Christmas / Aldous Huxley --
Christmas Eve / Washington Irving --
Paris, Christmas, 1876 / Henry James --
Christmas Eve / James Joyce --
A letter at Christmastime / John Keats --
A schoolboy's holiday / Charles Lamb --
Old folks' Christmas / Ring Lardner --
Joy in Freetown / Edna 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 cards / Phyllis McGinley --
Shakespeare's Christmas gift to Queen Bess in 1596 / Anna B. McMahan --
Merry Christmas / Herman Melville --
hristmas story / H.L. Mencken --
A hint for next Christmas / A.A. Milne --
On the morning of Christ's nativity / John Milton --
A visit from St. Nicholas / Clement C. Moore --
The Christmas tobacco ; The tree that didn't get trimmed / Christopher Morley --
The Christmas that almost wasn't / Ogden Nash --
Our crafty little Christmas / John Neary --
The Christmas football match / Oswestry observer --
Celebration in Cherokee Flats / Gordon Parks --
The Christmas bird count / George Plimpton --
A Christmas story / Katherine Anne Porter --
The tailor of Gloucester / Beatrix Potter --
The kid hangs up his stocking / Jacob Riis --
Karma / Edwin Arlington Robinson --
Christmas / Eleanor Roosevelt --
Mr. K*A*P*L*A*N and the Magi / Leo Rosten --
I am Christmas ; Now is the time of Christmas / James Ryman --
Reginald's Christmas revel / Saki --
A Brooklyn Christmas / Betty Smith --
Tree-shaking day / Lillian Smith --
The burning babe / Robert Southwell --
Christmas at sea / Robert Louis Stevenson --
The Christmas wreck / Frank Stockton --
Christmas on the frontier / Joanna L. Stratton --
Crisp new bills for Mr. Teagle / Frank Sullivan --
Is there a Santa Claus? / The Sun --
In memoriam of A.H.H. / Alfred, Lord Tennyson --
Doctor Birch and his young friends / William Makepeace Thackeray --
Conversation about Christmas / Dylan Thomas --
A winter walk / Henry David Thoreau --
Merry Christmas / James Thurber --
Christmas at Claremont / Queen Victoria --
The annual crisis of love / Loudon Wainwright --
The distant music of the hounds / E.B. White --
An editorial on Christmas Day, 1917 / Wipers Times --
The Magi / William Butler Yeats

Book details

• Format Hardcover
• Pages500 pages
• LanguageEnglish
• ISBN100670221104
• ISBN139780670221103