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The story "The Beggar Boy at Christ's Christmas Tree" in the "Writer's Diary" was preceded by a small chapter "The Boy with a Hand", and all the materials taken together from the first two chapters of the "Writer's Diary" (in the first chapter the writer placed his journalistic reflections on the same topic) were united by the theme of ...
Janet and Allan Ahlberg, The Jolly Christmas Postman [2] Maya Angelou, Amazing Peace [2] [3] L. Frank Baum, The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus; Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler, Stick Man [2] Richard Paul Evans, The Christmas Box, The Light of Christmas [2] [4] Cornelia Funke, When Santa Fell to Earth; Matt Haig, A Boy Called Christmas
His earliest short story, "The Happy Hypocrite" first appeared in Volume XI of The Yellow Book in October, 1896. Beerbohm's tale is a lighter, more humorous version of Oscar Wilde's 1890 classic tale of moral degeneration, The Picture of Dorian Gray. [1] The Happy Hypocrite tells the story of a man who deceives a woman with a mask in order to ...
Collected Short Stories is a collection of short fiction by Aldous Huxley, published in 1957. The book consists of twenty stories compiled from five of Huxley's earlier collections (18 short stories and two novelettes) and one from his novel Crome Yellow. It was published by Harper & Row in the US and Chatto & Windus in the UK.
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Holidays on Ice is a 1997 collection of essays and stories about Christmas, some new and some previously published, by David Sedaris. Sedaris was named by The Economist as one of the funniest writers alive. [1] This is one of his first works, which was subsequently re-released with additional new passages.
Cover of Galaxy, December 1957, featuring Santa Claus - and aliens.. The topic of Christmas has appeared in various works of fiction. Originally a religious theme related to Christianity, with the growing worldwide popularity of this holiday, many modern stories about Christmas have next to no religious content, instead focusing on more generic promotion of goodwill.
Small One - the old and weary donkey who made his place at Christmas. The Boy - Small One's friend who is kind to him. Woodcutter - the Boy's father. Auctioneer - a bidder who refused to sell Small One and made fun of him. Pablo - the boy who is told by Padre the story of The Small One. Padre - the teller of The Small One story that is told to ...