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The Gift of the Magi. " The Gift of the Magi " is a short story by O. Henry first published in 1905. The story tells of a young husband and wife and how they deal with the challenge of buying secret Christmas gifts for each other with very little money. As a sentimental story with a moral lesson about gift-giving, it has been popular for ...
1943 (written) 1944 (published) Pages. 48 pp. " The Greatest Gift " is a 1943 short story written by Philip Van Doren Stern, loosely based on the Charles Dickens 1843 novella A Christmas Carol, which became the basis for the film It's a Wonderful Life (1946). It was self-published as a booklet in 1943 and published as a book in 1944.
The Beggar Boy at Christ's Christmas Tree. " The Beggar Boy at Christ's Christmas Tree " (Russian: Мальчик у Христа на ёлке; Mal'chik u Khrista na yolke) is a Christmas-time short story written by Fyodor Dostoevsky in 1876. It was first published in A Writer's Diary, January 1876. This story is also known as "The Heavenly ...
with the sleigh full of toys, and St. Nicholas too. And then, in a twinkling, I heard on the roof. the prancing and pawing of each little hoof. As I drew in my head and was turning around, down ...
A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, commonly known as A Christmas Carol, is a novella by Charles Dickens, first published in London by Chapman & Hall in 1843 and illustrated by John Leech. It recounts the story of Ebenezer Scrooge, an elderly miser who is visited by the ghost of his former business partner Jacob ...
Novelist Gregory Maguire read a short story based on "The Little Match Girl" over the air on NPR. He later expanded the short story into a novel, published as Matchless: A Christmas Story (2009). [11] William McGonagall retold "The Little Match Girl" in a poem. [12] Jerry Pinkney wrote an adaption of the story setting it in the early twentieth ...
Christmas Eve (Gogol) A Christmas Memory. Christmas Morning. Christmas on Ganymede. Christmas Party (short story) A Christmas Tragedy. A Christmas Tree and a Wedding. Christmas with the Dead (short story) The Clergyman's Daughter (short story)
Miracle and Other Christmas Stories. Book cover. Miracle and Other Christmas Stories, a short story collection by Connie Willis, is about the spirit and theme of Christmas. The stories in the collection are: Miracle. Inn. In Coppelius's Toyshop. The Pony.