by SimonRae (Editor)
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.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 448
Edition: New Ed
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Published: 06 Dec 1999
ISBN 10: 0571174418
ISBN 13: 9780571174416