A Literary Christmas by British Library

A Literary Christmas by British Library

This seasonal compendium collects together poems, short stories, and prose extracts by some of the greatest poets and writers in the English language. Like Charles Dickens's ghosts of Christmas Past and Present, they are representative of times old and new--from John Donne's Elizabethan hymn over the baby Jesus to Benjamin Zephaniah's "Talking Turkeys," from Thomas Tusser counting the cost of a Tudor feast to P. G. Wodehouse's wry story about Christmas on a diet. Enjoy a Christmas Day as described by Samuel Pepys, Anthony Trollope, George Eliot, or Nancy Mitford. Venture out into the snow in the company of Jane Austen, Henry James, and Dickens's Mr. Pickwick. Entertain the children with the seasonal tales of Dylan Thomas, Kenneth Grahame, and Oscar Wilde.

"It's as if the selection has come from the St Pancras behemoth itself and is all the better for it. . a timeless and authoritative collection of festive writing." --New European

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ISBN 13	9780712352765
ISBN 10	0712352767
Titre	A Literary Christmas
Auteur	British Library
État	Non disponible
Type de reliure	Hardback
Éditeur	British Library Publishing
Année de publication	2018-09-01
Nombre de pages	152
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