The Essential Christmas Anthology

Charles Dickens

Jul 2013 · eBookIt.com

About this ebook

The essential collection of classic Christmas books and stories in one book:
The Abbot's Ghost, A Christmas Story, A. M. Barnard 1867
The Sad Shepherd, A Christmas Story, Henry Van Dyke 1911
Christmas Comes but Once A Year, Luke Limner 1850
A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens 1843
A Budget of Christmas Tales by Charles Dickens and Others, 1885
The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain, Charles Dickens 1907
Some Christmas Stories, Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
A Christmas Sermon, Robert Louis Stevenson 1900
The Birds' Christmas Carol, Kate Douglas Wiggin 1887
The Christmas Angel, Abbie Farwell Brown 1910
The Christmas Dinner, Shepherd Knapp 1921
The Old Peabody Pew, A Christmas Romance, Kate Douglas Wiggin 1907
The Spirit of Christmas, Henry Van Dyke 1911
The Night Before Christmas, Clement Moore 1823
Trifles for the Christmas Holidays, H. S. Armstrong 1869
A Little Book for Christmas, Cyrus Townsend Brady 1917
Old Christmas From the Sketch Book of Washington Irving, 1886
Christmas Stories And Legends, PHEBE A. CURTISS 1916
Christmas: Its Origin and Associations, William Francis Dawson 1902

About the author

Charles Dickens, perhaps the best British novelist of the Victorian era, was born in Portsmouth, Hampshire, England on February 7, 1812. His happy early childhood was interrupted when his father was sent to debtors' prison, and young Dickens had to go to work in a factory at age twelve. Later, he took jobs as an office boy and journalist before publishing essays and stories in the 1830s. His first novel, The Pickwick Papers, made him a famous and popular author at the age of twenty-five. Subsequent works were published serially in periodicals and cemented his reputation as a master of colorful characterization, and as a harsh critic of social evils and corrupt institutions. His many books include Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, Bleak House, Great Expectations, Little Dorrit, A Christmas Carol, and A Tale of Two Cities. Dickens married Catherine Hogarth in 1836, and the couple had nine children before separating in 1858 when he began a long affair with Ellen Ternan, a young actress. Despite the scandal, Dickens remained a public figure, appearing often to read his fiction. He died in 1870, leaving his final novel, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, unfinished.