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Home for Christmas Henry van Dyke

Home for Christmas By Henry van Dyke

Home for Christmas by Henry van Dyke


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Summary

For readers who are tired of Christmas commercialism, or who feel that Father Christmas doesn't tell the whole story, these classic gems provide an alternative.

Home for Christmas Summary

Home for Christmas: Stories for Young and Old by Henry van Dyke

If you're giving one book for Christmas, make it this one. -Jim Trelease, author, The Read-Aloud Handbook They are some of the warmest childhood memories, those unhurried evenings around the fireplace, Christmas tree, or dinner table, when there was time for a story. Now, with this collection, you can keep the story-telling tradition alive in your family, and pass it on to your children or grandchildren. Home for Christmas includes twenty time-honored tales. Several are by world-famous authors; others are little-known treasures translated from other languages. Selected for their literary quality and spiritual integrity, they will resonate with readers of all ages, year after year. With original woodcuts by David Klein

Home for Christmas Reviews

If you're giving one book for Christmas, make it this one. -- Jim Trelease, author, The Read-Aloud Handbook
This is undoubtedly the most literary collection of Christmas stories to be published this season. The editors at Plough have taken a conservative approach, eschewing sentimental claptrap in favor of classic, elegant writing. There are some standard-bearers here, including Henry van Dyke's enduring yarn The Other Wise Man and Pearl S. Buck's gentle and touching story Christmas Day in the Morning. Some contributions are deeply theological (Madeleine L'Engle's Transfiguration) while others offer the dark, discerning cadences of a timeless fable (Selma Lagerlof's The Christmas Rose). The collection has an international flavor, with stories set in Cuba, Germany, Siberia, Palestine, Denmark and Spain, as well as in Vermont and New York City. Readers who crave literary excellence as well as a heartwarming Christmas message will relish this carefully selected and intelligent anthology. -- Publishers Weekly

Table of Contents

Brother Robber by Helene Christaller Three Young Kings by George Sumner Albee Transfiguration by Madeleine L'Engle Willibald's Trip to Heaven by Reimmichl The Guest by Nikolai S. Lesskov Christmas Day in the Morning by Pearl S. Buck The Other Wise Man by Henry van Dyke The Miraculous Staircase by Arthur Gordon No Room in the Inn by Katherine Paterson The Chess Player by Ger Koopman The Christmas Lie by Dorothy Thomas The Riders of St. Nicholas by Jack Schaefer Grandfather's Stories by Ernst Wiechert The Vexation of Barney Hatch by B. J. Chute The Empty Cup by Opal Menius The Well of the Star by Elizabeth Goudge A Certain Small Shepherd by Rebecca Caudill The Carpenter's Christmas by Peter K. Rosegger What the Kings Brought by Ruth Sawyer The Christmas Rose by Selma Lagerloef

Additional information

GOR007945728
9780874869248
0874869242
Home for Christmas: Stories for Young and Old by Henry van Dyke
Used - Like New
Paperback
Plough Publishing House
20020914
339
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Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
The book has been read, but looks new. The book cover has no visible wear, and the dust jacket is included if applicable. No missing or damaged pages, no tears, possible very minimal creasing, no underlining or highlighting of text, and no writing in the margins

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