Description - On Christmas by Gyles Brandreth
A seasonal anthology of Christmas-themed writings to savour during the highs and lows of Christmas Day.
A seasonal anthology of Christmas-themed writings to savour during the highs and lows of Christmas Day.
This delightful anthology-described in Gyles Brandreth's introduction as "a plumpudding stuffed with good things"-offers an array of writers, both old and new,who have expressed their thoughts about Christmas with joy, nostalgia, grumpiness,and wit. Devour in one sitting, or savor at your leisure through the long winter nights.
On Christmas includes selections from Charles Dickens, William Sandys, DeborahBull, C.S. Lewis, Saint Bonaventure, Clement A. Miles, Robert Benchley, QuentinCrisp, the Koran, Queen Victoria, Anthony Trollope, Francis Kilvert, Samuel Pepys,Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jerome K. Jerome, Edmond de Goncourt, Mrs Beeton, KathyLette, Paul Fournier, Anton Chekhov, Charles Dudley Warner, Sue Townsend,O. Henry, Suhel Seth, Saki, Ali Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray, HenryLawson, Guy de Maupassant, Will Self, and P.G. Wodehouse.
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