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The Christmas collection [electronic resource] / selected by Christina Hardyment.

Hardyment, Christina. (Added Author). Jeffrey, Peter, 1929-1999 (Added Author). Moffatt, John, 1922- (Added Author). Timson, David. (Added Author). Engel, Susan. (Added Author). Harris, Simon. (Added Author). Ross, Liza. (Added Author).

Summary:

Christmas brings out the best and worst in us, as can be seen in this evocative anthology. Among what Thomas Love Peacock calls the 'many poetical charms in the heraldings of Christmas' there are eulogies by saints and diatribes from curmudgeons. Here, Christmas is expounded by divines, sung by rustics, deplored by philosophers, made mystical in stories and summed up in a line by the poet Elizabeth Jenkins: 'The hush, the star, the baby, people being kind again'.

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  • Publisher: [Franklin, Tenn.] : Naxos AudioBooks, 1997.

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General Note:
Downloadable audio file.
Title from: Title details screen.
Unabridged selections.
Duration: 5:44:23.
Participant or Performer Note:
Read by Peter Jeffrey, John Moffatt, David Timson, Susan Engel, Simon Harris, Liza Ross.
System Details Note:
Requires OverDrive Media Console
Requires OverDrive Media Console (WMA file size: 82516 KB; MP3 file size: 161693 KB).
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subject: Christmas.
Christmas stories.
Christmas in literature.
Mumming plays.
Christmas plays, English.
Christmas poetry.
Genre: DOWNLOADABLE AUDIOBOOK.
Audiobooks.

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