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The Christmas Box (ISBN 9781566840286) is an American novel written by Richard Paul Evans and self-published in 1993. A Christmas story written for his children, the book was advertised locally by Evans, who was working at the time as an advertising executive. He placed the book in Utah stores and it became a local best-seller.
It is the second in his series of "Christmas books", five novellas with strong social and moral messages that he published during the 1840s. In addition to A Christmas Carol and The Chimes , the Christmas books include The Cricket on the Hearth (1845), The Battle of Life (1846), and The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain (1848).
The Cricket on the Hearth: A Fairy Tale of Home is a novella by Charles Dickens, published by Bradbury and Evans, and released 20 December 1845 with illustrations by Daniel Maclise, John Leech, Richard Doyle, Clarkson Stanfield and Edwin Henry Landseer. [1]
The film is based on the 2011 book of the same name by Donna VanLiere. The Christmas Note is the fifth film from a series of ten books written by VanLiere. It was preceded by four movies made from the series, The Christmas Shoes (2002), The Christmas Blessing (2005), The Christmas Hope (2009), and The Christmas Secret (2014).
"A Christmas Memory" is a short story by Truman Capote. Originally published in Mademoiselle magazine in December 1956, it was reprinted in The Selected Writings of Truman Capote in 1963. It was issued in a stand-alone hardcover edition by Random House in 1966, and it has been published in many editions and anthologies since.
Another short story, "The Grandstand Passion Play of Delbert and the Bumpus Hounds", was drawn from Shepherd's second book of them, Wanda Hickey's Night of Golden Memories. [22] The five short stories that were used as the basis for A Christmas Story were collected under the title A Christmas Story and published as a stand-alone book in 2003. [23]
Berlin's three-week-old son had died on Christmas day in 1928, so every year on December 25, he and his wife visited their baby's grave, Jody Rosin, author of White Christmas: The Story of an ...
It was published in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in February 1939 under the title of Murder for Christmas. [3] This edition retailed at $2.00. [3] A paperback edition in the US by Avon books in 1947 changed the title again to A Holiday for Murder. The book features the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot and is a locked room mystery. The ...