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  35+ Anthology of Christmas...

  Charles Dickens, L. M....

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  Enchanting, tragic, and hilarious fairy tales for adults and children grace these pages. An initial glance might lead you to assume that these are satirical versions of classic Christmas ghost stories. However, beneath the humorous stories involving ghosts, repentant sinners, miracles, and good peasants who find well-deserved happiness, lies a psychological undercurrent that sharpens the sense of intrigue and plot movement. Often this is aided by the unrelenting social exposure of the authors who always understood how intangible the "bourgeois paradise" truly was. Even today, idyllic dreams of tolerance, equality, and the triumph of justice have failed to materialize. Perhaps that is why people continue to read these classic stories while the snow falls outside and the lights glow on the Christmas tree.
  Contents:
  Charles Dickens
   A Christmas Carol
   The Chimes
  G.K. Chesterton
   A Christmas Carol
  L.M. Montgomery
   The Red Room
   A Christmas Mistake
   A Christmas Inspiration
   The Josephs' Christmas
   Aunt Cyrilla's Christmas Basket
   The Osbornes' Christmas
   Bertie's New Year
   Ida's New Year Cake
   The Christmas Surprise at Enderly Road
   Clorinda's Gifts
   The Falsoms' Christmas Dinner
   The Unforgotten One
   Christmas at Red Butte
   Uncle Richard's New Year's Dinner
  L. Frank Baum
   A Kidnapped Santa Claus
   Little Bun Rabbit
  Mark Twain
   A Letter from Santa Claus
  Louisa May Alcott
   A Merry Christmas
  Leo Tolstoy
   A Russian Christmas Party
  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
   Christmas Bells
   The Three Kings
  Nikolay Gogol
   Christmas Eve
  William Dean Howells
   Christmas Everyday
   The Pony Engine and the Pacific Express
  Joseph Rudyard Kipling
   Christmas in India
  Elizabeth Harrison
   Little Gretchen and the Wooden Shoe
  John Milton
   On the Morning of Christ's Nativity
  Hans Christian Andersen
   The Fir Tree
  Selma Lagerlof
   The Holy Night
  Hans Christian Andersen
   The Little Match Girl
  Clement Moore
   The Night Before Christmas
  Henry van Dyke
   The Other Wise Man
  Beatrix Potter
   The Tailor of Gloucester
  Anton Chehov
   Vanka

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  G K Chesterton - Chapter & Verse...

  G K Chesterton

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  Literature is a world of words and wonder, able to take us on almost unimaginable journeys from the wild and fantastic to the grind and minutiae of life. 
   
  An author’s ideas are his building blocks, his architecture of the mind, building a structure on which all else will rest; the narrative, the characters, the words - those few words that begin the adventure. 
   
  In this series we look at some of our leading classic authors across two genres: the short story and the poem.  In this modern world there is an insatiable need to categorise and pigeon-hole everyone and everything.  But ideas, these grains and saplings of the brain, need to roam, to explore and find their perfect literary use vehicle.  Our authors are masters of many literary forms, perhaps known for one but themselves favouring another. 
   
  Story. Poems. Story.  Within these boundaries come all manner of invention and cast of characters.  And, of course, each author has their own way of revealing their own chapter and verse. 
   
  1 - Chapter & Verse - G K Chesterton - An Introduction 
  2 - The Resurrection of Father Brown by G K Chesterton 
  3 - The Song Against Songs by G K Chesterton 
  4 - The Strange Music by G K Chesterton 
  5 - The Song of Right and Wrong by G K Chesterton 
  6 - Americanisation by G K Chesterton 
  7 - The Englishman by G K Chesterton 
  8 - The Mystery by G K Chesterton 
  9 - Le Panto by G K Chesterton 
  10 - The Convert by G K Chesterton 
  11 - The Human Tree by G K Chesterton 
  12 - The Secret People by G K Chesterton 
  13 - The Last Hero by G K Chesterton 
  14 - A Prayer in Darkness by G K Chesterton 
  15 - A Ballad of Suicide by G K Chesterton 
  16 - The Rolling English Road by G K Chesterton 
  17 - A Somewhat Improbable Story by G K Chesterton

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  Psalm

  Mikhail Bulgakov

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  "Psalm" is  a short touching story, written in 1923. Part of the "Travel Notes" series. Published: On the Eve, Berlin - M., 1923.
  I will buy a dog on Saturday
  I will sing a psalm at night
  I will order shoes for tailcoat…
  But it's okay. Somehow… we will live.

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  England My England

  D H Lawrence

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  'England, My England' is set in the years before the Great War of 1914, seen by some as an idyllic time of sunshine and peace before everything was shattered by the mechanised war of 1914 to 1918. The family are placed in an idealised setting, deep in the English countryside but there are snakes in this Garden of Eden. There is conflict between man and woman, brought to the fore by an accident to a child and there is the seeming purposeless life led by the husband. The story ripples with the eugenic theories popular at the time yet the conflicts are finally solved by the horror of the war.

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  Whispers & Broken Promises

  Denise Carbo

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  Instead of the proposal she expected, Tina’s boyfriend dumps her and moves across the country. She’s left behind questioning her future and what went wrong. 
    
  A handsome single dad moves to town and the complications multiply. 
    
  She’s spent her entire existence in the small lakeside town of Granite Cove, New Hampshire. Besides knowing every detail of her life, the residents feel it’s only right they help her decide how she should live the rest of it.

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  The Case of Vincent Pyrwhtt -...

  Barry Pain

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  Barry Eric Odell Pain was born at 3 Sydney Street in Cambridge on 28th September 1864. He was one of 4 children. 
  He was educated at Sedbergh School and then Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. 
  In 1889, Cornhill Magazine published his short story ‘The Hundred Gates’.  This opened the way for Pain to advance his literary career on several fronts. He became a contributor to Punch and The Speaker, as well as joining the staff of both the Daily Chronicle and Black and White.  
  Pain was also a noted and prominent contributor to The Granta and from 1896 to 1928 a regular contributor to the Windsor Magazine. 
  It is often said that Pain was discovered by Robert Louis Stevenson, who compared his work to that of Guy de Maupassant.  It’s an apt comparison. Pain was a master of disturbing prose but was also able to inject parody and light comedy into many of his works.  A simple premise could in his hands suddenly expand into a world very real but somehow emotionally fraught and on the very edge of darkness. 
  Barry Pain died on 5th May 1928 in Bushey, Hertfordshire.

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