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(4.5) | None | "If the weather outside is frightful, draw up a chair to the fire, get the chesnuts roasting, and find an echo to every mood in this collection of funny, surprising, moving and magical festive stories from some of our greatest authors. Including stories from Laurie Lee, Truman Capote, Kenneth Graham, John Cheever, Sue Towsend, Nancy Mitford, Dylan Thomas, Charles Dickens, John Julius Norwich, P.G. Wodehouse and Stella Gibbons, among many others."… (more) |
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None ▾Book descriptions "If the weather outside is frightful, draw up a chair to the fire, get the chesnuts roasting, and find an echo to every mood in this collection of funny, surprising, moving and magical festive stories from some of our greatest authors. Including stories from Laurie Lee, Truman Capote, Kenneth Graham, John Cheever, Sue Towsend, Nancy Mitford, Dylan Thomas, Charles Dickens, John Julius Norwich, P.G. Wodehouse and Stella Gibbons, among many others." ▾Library descriptions No library descriptions found. ▾LibraryThing members' description
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Contains: - Christmas chills: ghost stories for Christmas Eve:
- 'Oh, whistle and I'll come to you, my lad' / M. R. James
- Afterward / Edith Wharton
- The yuletide spirit:
- Jeeves and the yule-tide spirit / P. G. Wodehouse
- Dancing Dan's Christmas / Damon Runyon
- Christmas diaries:
- 'Morning most brilliant' / from The diary of Rev Francis Kilvert
- 'A nice boy' / from The diary of a nobody / George & Weedon Grossmith
- 'I don't know what's happened to Christmas lately' from The growing pains of Adrian Mole / Sue Townsend
- Christmas caroling:
- 'Carol Barking' from Cider with Rosie / Laurie Lee
- 'Dulce Domun' from The wind in the willows / Kenneth Graham
- Christmas with the family:
- 'Lady Bobbin's Christmas Day' from A Christmas pudding / Nancy Mitford
- Christmas at Cold Comfort Farm / Stella Gibbons
- Christmas gifts:
- Christmas is a sad season for the poor / John Cheever
- The gift of the Magi / O. Henry
- Christmas dinners:
- 'The never was such a goose' from A Christmas carol / Charles Dickens
- 'A conscience pudding' from The new treasure seekers / E. Nesbit
- Last Christmas:
- A child's Christmas in Wales / Dylan Thomas
- A Christmas memory / Truman Capote
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