A Merry Christmas: And Other Christmas Stories (Penguin

A Merry Christmas: And Other Christmas Stories (Penguin Christmas Classics)

One of six beloved Christmas classics in collectible hardcover editions
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A Merry Christmas collects the treasured holiday tales of Louisa May Alcott, from the dearly familiar Yuletide benevolence of Marmee and her â€œlittle womenâ€ to the timeless â€œWhat Love Can Do,â€ wherein the residents of a boarding house come together to make a lovely Christmas for two poor girls. Wildly popular at the time of their publicationâ€”readers deluged Alcott with letters demanding sequelsâ€”and drawing on Alcottâ€™s family and experiences in the abolitionist and womenâ€™s suffrage movements, these stories have the authentic texture and detail of Christmas in nineteenth-century America, while their emphasis on generosity and charity make them timeless embodiments of the Christmas spirit.
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Penguin Christmas Classics
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Give the gift of literature this Christmas.
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Penguin Christmas Classics honor the power of literature to keep on giving through the ages. The six volumes in the series are not only our most beloved Christmas tales, they also have given us much of what we love about the holiday itself. A Christmas Carol revived in Victorian England such Christmas hallmarks as the Christmas tree, holiday cards, and caroling. The Yuletide yarns of Anthony Trollope popularized throughout the British Empire and around the world the trappings of Christmas in London. The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus created the origin story for the presiding spirit of Christmas as we know it.Â The holiday tales of Louisa May Alcott shaped the ideal of an American Christmas. The Night Before Christmas brought forth some of our earliest Christmas traditions as passed down through folk tales. And The Nutcracker inspired the most famous ballet in history, one seen by millions in the twilight of every year.
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Beautifully designed hardcoversâ€”with foil-stamped jackets, decorative endpapers, and nameplates for personalizationâ€”in a small trim size that makes them perfect stocking stuffers, Penguin Christmas Classics embody the spirit of giving that is at the heart of our most time-honored stories about the holiday.
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Collect all six Penguin Christmas Classics:
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A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Christmas at Thompson Hall: And Other Christmas Stories by Anthony Trollope
The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus by L. Frank Baum
A Merry Christmas: And Other Christmas Stories by Louisa May Alcott
The Night Before Christmas by Nikolai Gogol
The Nutcracker by E. T. A. Hoffmann

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Country USA
Brand Penguin Classics
Manufacturer Penguin Classics
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber 40542267
Color White
ReleaseDate 2014-10-08
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780143122463

Country	USA
Brand	Penguin Classics
Manufacturer	Penguin Classics
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	40542267
Color	White
ReleaseDate	2014-10-08
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780143122463

A Merry Christmas: And Other Christmas Stories (Penguin Christmas Classics)

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