On Christmas
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A seasonal anthology of Christmas-themed writings to savour during the highs and lows of Christmas Day. This delightful book offers a diverse array of classic and contemporary writers who have expressed their thoughts about Christmas over the centuries - with joy, nostalgia and dazzling wit. Includes selections from Dostoevsky, Truman Capote, A.A. Milne, Jerome K Jerome, and modern day diarists, this beautiful volume is as full of delight and nostalgia as Christmas itself.
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A seasonal anthology of Christmas-themed writings to savour during the highs and lows of Christmas Day. This delightful book offers a diverse array of classic and contemporary writers who have expressed their thoughts about Christmas over the centuries - with joy, nostalgia and dazzling wit. Includes selections from Dostoevsky, Truman Capote, A.A. Milne, Jerome K Jerome, and modern day diarists, this beautiful volume is as full of delight and nostalgia as Christmas itself.
Title: On Christmas
Author: Gyles Brandreth
ISBN: 9781910749685
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Publisher: Notting Hill Editions
Publication Date: 2017-11-01
Number of Pages: 192
Weight: 0.2223 kg
This compact little book, handsomely produced, includes some enterprising choices, ranging from the Koran to Ali Smith, and concluding with an essay by P.G. Wodehouse, 'Just What I Wanted,' that was published in Vanity Fair in 1915 but remains perfectly apposite today. - The Best Christmas Books of 2017, Evening Standard (UK)
One of the best stocking-filler books of 2017. -The Guardian (UK)
On Christmas, a Notting Hill anthology of yuletide essays from contributors as varied as Charles Dickens, C.S. Lewis, and Anton Chekhov, has a crimson binding vivid enough to toast the retinas like holiday chestnuts. This is obviously a publisher that likes to have fun. -Danny Heitman, The Weekly Standard
On Christmas: A Seasonal Anthology offers something for everyone...packing in a range of old and new voices, motley viewpoints and diverse modes of writing...this charming little book hits the spot. -Malcolm Forbes, Star Tribune
A perfect stocking stuffer for readers is this slim, hardback anthology of superb stories of and about Christmas...it's certain to please any lover of great literature. -Bayou Catholic Monthly
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