10 Best Loved Christmas Classic Stories for All Ages - ILLUSTRATED (Cambridge World Classics)

10 Best Loved Christmas Classic Stories for All Ages (Cambridge World Classics Edition)
Christmas Books Classic Literature (Volume 1)

OVERVIEW

Living as we do in our hectic modern world with enough distractions in a single day to occupy a lifetime, it is hard to imagine that just a few generations ago, some of the most wonderful Christmas memories were created through reading and storytelling.  After a home cooked supper on a cold December evening, translucent snow gently falling on the streets outside, entire families would huddle around the fireplace, with warm drinks on the stove, and the father or mother of the family would finally open a well-worn book of best loved Christmas stories and poems.  For the next hour or two, he or she would read out loud a story, or perhaps two ... voicing each character and intimating evoking every description, as if performing on a stage.  And during this time, all the other family members, children, cousins, uncles and aunts would be kept rapt, their attention captivated by the sweet and soft turn of every word, and by the excitement about what would happen next.

This wonderful collection brings together 10 of these best loved Christmas stories.  It of course includes the well known classics such as O.Henry’s The Gift of the Magi, Dickens’ A Christmas Carol and Moore’s The Night Before Christmas.  However, it also contains some relatively unknown gems such as Abbey Farwell Brown’s A Christmas Angel and two wonderful folk tales retold by Elizabeth Harrison, Little Gretchen and the Wooden Shoe and A Story of the Little Child.

This collection has been painstaking edited and illustrated in the hope that it will create new joyous Christmas memories for generations to come.

CONTENTS

This completely new anthology of Christmas stories and poems contains an original preface and introduction, as well as a fully interactive table of contents. 

PART ONE: SHORTER TALES

The Gift of the Magi O. HENRY
The Fir Tree HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN
The Little Match Girl HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN
Little Gretchen and the Wooden Shoe ELIZABETH HARRISON
A Story of the Child ELIZABETH HARRISON

PART TWO: A VISIT FROM ST. NICHOLAS

The Night Before Christmas CLEMENT CLARKE MOORE
The Night After Christmas CLEMENT CLARKE MOORE

PART THREE: LONGER STORIES

A Christmas Carol CHARLES DICKENS
The Chimes CHARLES DICKENS
The Christmas Angel ABBIE FARWELL BROWN

SPECIAL KOBO EBOOK ENABLED FEATURES

This edition has special Kobo eBook enabled features, including completely interactive table of contents, text-to-speech capabilities which enable audiobook features, as well as words that can be looked up on the built in dictionary

REVIEWS

"Beautiful collection ... the best Christmas anthology of its kind.  Likely to be treasured and passed down from generation to generation"

"This is the perfect book to introduce children to the magic of the classic Christmas stories”

"Tremendous value ... this Christmas series that has just been newly published by Cambridge World Classics is worth every single penny.”