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Vintage Christmas Tales

A Holiday Anthology
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Vintage Christmas Tales: A Holiday Anthology offers a heartwarming collection of festive stories and novels from renowned authors across two centuries. It features classics such as L. Frank Baum's The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus and its sequel A Kidnapped Santa Claus, tracing the origin and growth of Santa Claus. The enchanting Babes in Toyland by Anna Alice Chapin and Glen MacDonough brings nursery rhyme characters to life in an exciting adventure. Margery Williams Bianco's The Velveteen Rabbit tells a touching tale of a toy bunny brought to life, while Charles Dickens' enduring A Christmas Carol captures the transformative journey of Ebenezer Scrooge on Christmas Eve. This anthology celebrates themes of love, family, and the spirit of giving for readers of all ages.
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Vintage Christmas Tales: A Holiday Anthology is a collection of short stories and novels by some of the most popular storytellers of the last two centuries, meant to capture and celebrate the joy of the holiday.

In L. Frank Baum's The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, as well as its sequel A Kidnapped Santa Claus, we see the origins of Santa Claus in the Forest of Burzee, growing from infancy into adulthood. Anna Alice Chapin and Glen MacDonough's Babes in Toyland brings together several characters from various Mother Goose nursery rhymes to create the exciting adventure of two children, Alan and Jane, in the titular Toyland. The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams Bianco is a wondrous children's tale about a beloved toy bunny come to life; and of course, there is the Charles Dickens classic, A Christmas Carol, the ghost story to end all ghost stories that follows the conversion of one cold-hearted Ebenezer Scrooge on Christmas Eve.

With these stories and many more, Vintage Christmas Tales: A Holiday Anthology is a collection that features tales of love, family, and the spirit of giving for readers young and old. Professionally typeset with a beautifully designed cover, this edition of Vintage Christmas Tales: A Holiday Anthology is a celebration of the joyous holiday reimagined for modern readers.

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  • Vintage Christmas Tales
    Vintage Christmas Tales: A Holiday Anthology is a collection of short stories and novels by some of the most popular storytellers of the last two centuries, meant to capture and celebrate the joy of the holiday. In L. Frank Baum's The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, as well as its sequel A Kidnapped Santa Claus, we see the origins...
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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781513138589

Publisher: West Margin Press

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 17 November 2022

Country: United States

Imprint: West Margin Press

Illustration: Illustrations

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Audience: General / adult, Children

DIMENSIONS

Width: 127.0mm

Height: 203.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 616

About the Author

This collection features the work of a dozen storytellers spanning over a hundred years. Among the most acclaimed are: Washington Irving, who was among the first American writers to earn acclaim in Europe; Alexander Dumas, one of the most universally read French authors; John Kenderick Bangs, who influenced the creation and recognition of the Bangsian fantasy genre; and Zona Gale who was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1921.

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