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The Essential Christmas Anthology
The Essential Christmas Anthology
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The essential collection of classic Christmas books and stories in one book:

The Abbot's Ghost, A Christmas Story, A. M. Barnard 1867
The Sad Shepherd, A Christmas Story, Henry Van Dyke 1911
Christmas Comes but Once A Year, Luke Limner 1850
A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens 1843
A Budget of Christmas Tales by Charles Dickens and Others, 1885
The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain, Charles Dickens 1907
Some Christmas Stories, Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
A Christmas Sermon, Robert Louis Stevenson 1900
The Birds' Christmas Carol, Kate Douglas Wiggin 1887
The Christmas Angel, Abbie Farwell Brown 1910
The Christmas Dinner, Shepherd Knapp 1921
The Old Peabody Pew, A Christmas Romance, Kate Douglas Wiggin 1907
The Spirit of Christmas, Henry Van Dyke 1911
The Night Before Christmas, Clement Moore 1823
Trifles for the Christmas Holidays, H. S. Armstrong 1869
A Little Book for Christmas, Cyrus Townsend Brady 1917
Old Christmas From the Sketch Book of Washington Irving, 1886
Christmas Stories And Legends, PHEBE A. CURTISS 1916
Christmas: Its Origin and Associations, William Francis Dawson 1902
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Release dateApr 26, 2016
ISBN9781456618445
The Essential Christmas Anthology
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Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens was born in 1812 and grew up in poverty. This experience influenced ‘Oliver Twist’, the second of his fourteen major novels, which first appeared in 1837. When he died in 1870, he was buried in Poets’ Corner in Westminster Abbey as an indication of his huge popularity as a novelist, which endures to this day.

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