A Christmas anthology stemming from correspondence in Godfrey Smith's Sunday Times column - old favourites and some surprises but the criterion for selection usually being that it can be read aloud. The range goes from Dickens to O'Henry, from a Christmas Carol to T.S. Eliot.
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The Christmas Reader by Godfrey Smith
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Table of Contents
Part 1 Golden gifts for all: Laurie Lee - Cider With Rosie; Dylan Thomas - A Child's Christmas in Wales; Thomas Hardy - Under the Greenwood Tree. Part 2 We don't want your Christmas pudding: George R. Sims, Christmas Day in the Workhouse; Billy Bennett - Christmas Day in the Cookhouse; Stanley Holloway - Old Sam's Christmas Pudding; Edmund Gosse - Father and Son. Part 3 This most tremendous tale of all: John Betjeman - Christmas; Thomas Hardy - The Oxen; C. Day Lewis - The Christmas Tree; Louis MacNeice - Christmas Shopping. Part 4 Now one time it comes on Christmas: Willa Cather - My Antonia; Truman Capote - A Christmas Memory; O. Henry - The Gift of the Magi; Damon Runyon - Dancing Dan's Christmas; Alistair Cooke - Christmas in Vermont. Part 5 Indeed, our fathers were very wise: Hilaire Belloc - A Remaining Christmas; Harold Macmillan - Christmas at Chatsworth; Washington Irving - The Christmas Dinner. Part 5 The frailty of Father Balaguere: Lawrence Durrell - Monsieur; George du Maurier - Trilby; Alphonse Daudet - The Three Low Masses. Part 6 A partridge in a pear tree: The Twelve Days of Christmas; Phyllis McGinley - All the Days of Christmas; John Julius Norwich - The Twelve Days of Christmas. Part 7 I have acquired some nice Christmas loot: Noel Coward - Diary for Christmas day 1955; George Bernard Shaw - An Atrocious Institution; George Orwell - It is a Debauch; Kingsley Amis - Ending Up. Part 8 I sing of a maiden: William Shakespeare - Hamlet, I, i; Nicholas Breton - A Christmas Song; Anon, 15th century - I Sing of a Maiden; Robert Herrick - A Christmas Carol; Rudyard Kipling - Christmas in India; Algernon Swinburne - Three Damsels in the Queen's Chamber. Part 9 Where was the ecstasy?: George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss; D.H. Lawrence - The Rainbow; Sue Townsend - The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole. Part 10 Everyone suddenly burst out singing: Malcolm Brown and Shirley Seaton - Christmas Truce; Norman Longmate (ed) - How We Lived. Part contents.
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