The Reader's Digest book of Christmas.

Illustrated compilation of writings, including poetry and short stories, on the history, the literature, and the customs of holiday celebrations around the world.

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Created: Montreal ; Pleasantville, NY : The Reader's Digest Association, [1973]
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505 0 0 |t The birth of Christ -- Elisabeth and Zechariah -- The Annunciation -- The visitation -- The nativity -- The presentation in the temple -- The coming of the Magi -- The slaying of the infants -- The history of Christmas / by Rumer Godden -- The literature of Christmas -- Home for Christmas / Elizabeth Bowen -- The holy night / Selma Lagerlöf -- Bird of dawning / William Shakespeare -- Star of the nativity / Boris Pasternak -- The ox and the ass at the manger / Jules Supervielle -- Heaven cannot hold him / Christina Rossetti -- Why the chimes rang / Raymond MacDonald Alden -- Christmas in Maine / Robert P. Tristram Coffin -- A letter from Santa Claus / Mark Twain -- 'Twas the night before Christmas / Clement C. Moore -- My first Christmas tree / Hamlin Garland -- Christmas bells / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- The gift of the magi / O. Henry -- I heard a bird sing / Oliver Herford -- The Christmas of the phonograph records / Mari Sandoz -- Velvet shoes / Elinor Wylie -- The fir tree / Hans Christian Andersen -- Christmas with the pilgrims, 1620 / William Bradford -- To Springvale for Christmas / Zona Gale -- Christmas day at sea / Joseph Conrad -- December / Aileen Fisher -- The holly and the ivy, fifteenth-century English carol -- A Christmas carol / Charles Dickens -- Wassail song, English carol -- A Christmas memory / Truman Capote -- Christmas trees / Robert Frost -- Amahl and the night visitors / Gian Carlo Menotti -- Rather late for Christmas / Mary Ellen Chase -- Under the mistletoe / Countee Cullen -- An Illinois Christmas in the 1880's / Isabella Maud Rittenhouse -- Stubby Pringle's Christmas / Jack Schaefer -- Carols in the Cotswolds / Laurie Lee -- Christmas tree / E.E. Cummings -- Christmas closes a gulf / Moss Hart -- A Christmas alphabet / Marion Conger -- Signor Santa / Jo Pagano -- A large Christmas / Lillian Smith -- New relations and duties / Frederick Douglass -- Carol of the brown king / Langston Hughes -- Jesous Ahatonhia (Huron Indian Carol) / Father Jean de Brébeuf -- Christmas morning / Frank O'Connor -- George Washington's Christmas list -- Francie Nolan's Christmas tree / Betty Smith -- The ballad of Befana / Phyllis McGinley -- Christmas meditation of a young student / Pope John XXIII -- Christmas around the world -- Introduction -- Germany and Austria -- Italy -- France -- Sweden -- Spain -- Poland -- Middle East -- Great Britain -- Mexico -- Christmas in my country : children's art. 
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