The Faber Book of Christmas

by SimonRae (Editor)

• Used

  Hardcover
  1996

  $3.24

  From the abundant writing on Christmas - historical, literary, popular, mythical - comes this eclectic anthology which includes familiar pieces by Betjeman, Auden, Hardy and Dickens, as well as more obscure extracts. The selection ranges from Milton's On the Morning of Christ's Nativity to Wendy Cope's rueful A Christmas Poem , and from accounts of Christmas Day at the North Pole to Christmas as celebrated by the England cricket team in Australia.

• Used

  Paperback
  1999

  $3.24

  From the abundant writing on Christmas - historical, literary, popular, mythical - comes this eclectic anthology which includes familiar pieces by Betjeman, Auden, Hardy and Dickens, as well as more obscure extracts. The selection ranges from Milton's On the Morning of Christ's Nativity to Wendy Cope's rueful A Christmas Poem , and from accounts of Christmas Day at the North Pole, and in the trenches in 1914, to Christmas as celebrated by the England cricket team in Australia.