The Abbot’s Ghost, A Christmas Story, A. M. Barnard 1867The Sad Shepherd, A Christmas Story, Henry Van Dyke 1911Christmas Comes but Once A Year, Luke Limner 1850A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens 1843A Budget of Christmas Tales by Charles Dickens and Others, 1885The Haunted Man and the Ghost’s Bargain, Charles Dickens 1907Some Christmas Stories, Charles Dickens (1812-1870)A Christmas Sermon, Robert Louis Stevenson 1900The Birds’ Christmas Carol, Kate Douglas Wiggin 1887The Christmas Angel, Abbie Farwell Brown 1910The Christmas Dinner, Shepherd Knapp 1921The Old Peabody Pew, A Christmas Romance, Kate Douglas Wiggin 1907The Spirit of Christmas, Henry Van Dyke 1911The Night Before Christmas, Clement Moore 1823Trifles for the Christmas Holidays, H. S. Armstrong 1869A Little Book for Christmas, Cyrus Townsend Brady 1917Old Christmas From the Sketch Book of Washington Irving, 1886Christmas Stories And Legends, PHEBE A. CURTISS 1916Christmas: Its Origin and Associations, Will (more…)

An Excerpt from the book-Marley was dead, to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that.The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, theundertaker, and the chief mourner. Scrooge signed it. And Scrooge’s namewas good upon ‘Change, for anything he chose to put his hand to.Old Marley was dead as a door-nail.Scrooge knew he was dead? Of course he did. How could it be otherwise?Scrooge and he were partners for I don’t know how many years. Scroogewas his sole executor, his sole administrator, his sole assign, his soleresiduary legatee, his sole friend, and sole mourner. And even Scroogewas not so dreadfully cut up by the sad event, but that he was anexcellent man of business on the very day of the funeral, and solemnizedit with an undoubted bargain.The mention of Marley’s funeral brings me back to the point I startedfrom. There is no doubt that Marley was dead. This must be distinctlyunderstood, or nothing wonderful can come of the story I am go (more…)

TABLE OF CONTENTS.A Christmas Carol CHARLES DICKENS.The Christmas Babe MARGARET E. SANGSTER.A Western Christmas MRS. W. H. CORNING.Joe’s Search for Santa Claus IRVING BACHELLER.Angela’s Christmas JULIA SCHAYER.The First Puritan Christmas Tree (ANONYMOUS.)First New England Christmas HEZEKIAH BUTTERWORTH.The Chimes CHARLES DICKENS.Billy’s Santa Claus Experience CORNELIA REDMOND.Christmas in Poganuc MRS. H. B. STOWE.The Christmas Princess MRS. MOLESWORTH.Widow Townsend’s Visitor (ANONYMOUS.)The Old Man’s Christmas ELLA WHEELER WILCOX.The Christmas Goblin CHARLES DICKENS.The Song of the Star C. H. MEAD.Indian Pete’s Christmas Gift H. W. COLLINGWOOD.My Christmas Dinner (ANONYMOUS.)The Poor Traveler CHARLES DICKENS.The Legend of the Christmas Tree (ANONYMOUS.)The Peace Egg JULIANA HORATIA EWING.

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The end of the year holidays can slice through your wallet and your budget if you aren’t paying attention. Make your holidays memorable and special, with Mrs. Pinchpenny’s holiday tips and tricks. Not something you remember everytime you make a payment on your visa card for the next 6 months.

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This half-hour Christmas show is one of the truly lovable animated specials in TV history, a status proved by its annual network telecast since 1965. A Charlie Brown Christmas was the first, and best, of a series of programs based on the Charles M. Schulz cartoon strip “Peanuts.” Hapless hero Charlie Brown finds himself depressed at Christmastime, searching for the true meaning of the holiday amidst the glitz and commercialism of the modern age. Appointed director of the school holiday pageant, Charlie Brown ventures out with Linus to buy “a great, big, shiny aluminum Christmas tree.” Instead they bring back a miserable tree–a real one. A Charlie Brown Christmas shows off the “Peanuts” gang doing what they do best: Lucy is bossy, Snoopy is crazy, Linus is sweet, and Pig Pen is, well, filthy. Instead of using adult actors trying to sound like kids, the production features real children providing the voices, an endearing effect. The jazz music score, composed (more…)

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Brian Henson directs his late father’s creations in the Charles Dickens classic, the best known (and most oft-filmed) Christmas story of all time. Michael Caine plays the old miser Scrooge with Kermit as his long-suffering but ever-hopeful employee Bob Cratchit, Miss Piggy as Cratchit’s wife, and a host of Muppets (including the Great Gonzo as an unlikely Charles Dickens) taking other primary roles in this bright, playful adaptation of the somber tale. Or at least it starts brightly enough–the anarchic humor soon settles into mirthful memories and a sense of melancholy as the ghosts of Christmas past, present, and future take Scrooge on a journey of his lonely, wasted life. Michael Caine makes a wonderful Scrooge, delightfully rediscovering the meaning of life as fantastic creations from Henson’s Creature Shop (developed specially for this film) take the reins as the three ghosts. While the odd mix of offbeat humor and somber drama undercuts the power of Dic (more…)

This delightfully funny holiday gem tells the story of Ralphie Parker (Peter Billingsly) a 1940’s nine-year-old who pulls out all the stops to obtain the ultimate Christmas present.

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Brian Henson directs his late father’s creations in the Charles Dickens classic, the best known (and most oft-filmed) Christmas story of all time. Michael Caine plays the old miser Scrooge with Kermit as his long-suffering but ever-hopeful employee Bob Cratchit, Miss Piggy as Cratchit’s wife, and a host of Muppets (including the Great Gonzo as an unlikely Charles Dickens) taking other primary roles in this bright, playful adaptation of the somber tale. Or at least it starts brightly enough–the anarchic humor soon settles into mirthful memories and a sense of melancholy as the ghosts of Christmas past, present, and future take Scrooge on a journey of his lonely, wasted life. Michael Caine makes a wonderful Scrooge, delightfully rediscovering the meaning of life as fantastic creations from Henson’s Creature Shop (developed specially for this film) take the reins as the three ghosts. While the odd mix of offbeat humor and somber drama undercuts the power of Dic (more…)

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Brian Henson directs his late father’s creations in the Charles Dickens classic, the best known (and most oft-filmed) Christmas story of all time. Michael Caine plays the old miser Scrooge with Kermit as his long-suffering but ever-hopeful employee Bob Cratchit, Miss Piggy as Cratchit’s wife, and a host of Muppets (including the Great Gonzo as an unlikely Charles Dickens) taking other primary roles in this bright, playful adaptation of the somber tale. Or at least it starts brightly enough–the anarchic humor soon settles into mirthful memories and a sense of melancholy as the ghosts of Christmas past, present, and future take Scrooge on a journey of his lonely, wasted life. Michael Caine makes a wonderful Scrooge, delightfully rediscovering the meaning of life as fantastic creations from Henson’s Creature Shop (developed specially for this film) take the reins as the three ghosts. While the odd mix of offbeat humor and somber drama undercuts the power of Dic (more…)