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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewIf you’re giving one book for Christmas, make it this one. --Jim Trelease, author, The Read-Aloud Handbook
This is undoubtedly the most literary collection of Christmas stories to be published this season. The editors at Plough have taken a conservative approach, eschewing sentimental claptrap in favor of classic, elegant writing. There are some standard-bearers here, including Henry van Dyke's enduring yarn The Other Wise Man and Pearl S. Buck's gentle and touching story Christmas Day in the Morning. Some contributions are deeply theological (Madeleine L'Engle's Transfiguration) while others offer the dark, discerning cadences of a timeless fable (Selma Lagerlof's The Christmas Rose). The collection has an international flavor, with stories set in Cuba, Germany, Siberia, Palestine, Denmark and Spain, as well as in Vermont and New York City. Readers who crave literary excellence as well as a heartwarming Christmas message will relish this carefully selected and intelligent anthology. --Publishers Weekly
Table of ContentsBrother Robber - Helene Christaller Three Young Kings - George Sumner Albee Transfiguration - Madeleine L’Engle The Cribmaker’s Trip to Heaven - Reimmichl The Guest - Nikolai S. Lesskov Christmas Day in the Morning - Pearl S. Buck The Other Wise Man - Henry van Dyke The Miraculous Staircase - Arthur Gordon No Room in the Inn - Katherine Paterson The Chess Player - Ger Koopman The Christmas Lie - Dorothy Thomas The Riders of St. Nicholas - Jack Schaefer Grandfather’s Stories - Ernst Wiechert The Vexation of Barney Hatch - B. J. Chute The Empty Cup - Opal Menius The Well of the Star - Elizabeth Goudge A Certain Small Shepherd - Rebecca Caudill The Carpenter’s Christmas - Peter K. Rosegger What the Kings Brought - Ruth Sawyer The Christmas Rose - Selma Lagerlöf
