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- “The Gift of the Magi” by O. Henry. Probably one of the most famous Christmas short stories, this is the tale of a young married couple who desperately want to buy beautiful Christmas presents for each other, but lack the money to do so.
- “A Christmas Dream, and How It Came to Be True” by Louisa May Alcott. Alcott seems to have a genuine love for Christmas. She includes memorable Christmas scenes in her novel Little Women, but she also wrote a number of Christmas short stories and novellas.
- “The Elves and the Shoemaker” by The Brothers Grimm. In this familiar Christmas tale, a poor cobbler is rewarded for his honesty and hard work when two elves step in to save him from ruin.
- “A Child’s Christmas in Wales” by Dylan Thomas. Dylan Thomas recounts memories of an old-fashioned Christmas from the perspective of a young boy. Thomas uses his skill as a poet to make this a lyrical and sense-engaging story.
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- The Gold Wrapping Paper
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- The Gift of The Magi
Mike hated all the commercial stuff around Christmas: the overspending and finding the perfect gift stress. So I wondered what to get for my husband. Mike coached kids and, at one match, sadly noticed that the opposing team, from a poor inner-city neighborhood, had almost no equipment at all. When I saw his pain in the situation, I knew what to do....
Everybody knows Rudolph, but nobody knows the second most famous reindeer in the world: Bernie the Reindeer! Santa Claus did not know what to do with Bernie. He did not like to be outside. He was too clumsy for the toy workshop. He ate everything he cooked in the kitchen. At last, Santa realized that Bernie was always talking. Then, in a bright fla...
One Christmas, my sister told me that Santa was not real. I told my grandmother, and she took me to the big department store. She handed me 10 dollars and the assignment to buy something for somebody in need. I thought of a boy in my classroom who had no coat and bought a beautiful coat. We delivered it to his door with a secret note from Santa. Si...
The children of a widowed woman take a tree into their home. However, there is no money to buy decorations for the tree. So sadly, the children went to bed. Spiders, however, had seen the sadness of the family, and during the night, they decorated the whole Christmas tree with their webs. The following day all family was happy, and they realized th...
My father sat down outside our apartment, crying. He could not pay the bills for us anymore. When the mailman came by, he asked him what he needed. My dad replied that he needed $33 for the following rent. The mailman gave him $50 without expecting him to pay it back. Then he looked at me and said to my father: “When someone in the future needs you...
My daughter received a bubble maker for Christmas. So, of course, she wanted to try it out immediately the following day. I read in the instruction manual that it was best with a certain kind of soap called Joy. But, unfortunately, we did not have it. So in the early morning, when my daughter wanted to make bubbles, and I was tired, I could not bri...
There was no money for presents or Christmas delicacies. My mother had had a stroke, and all money went to the hospital. However, on Christmas Eve, the church knocked on our door. They heard about our Christmas situation and brought us new coats and holiday treats. All because one of our neighbors had told her church about us. It’s small things lik...
His little girl used all the expensive gold wrapping paper. And on Christmas Eve, he saw that she used it all to cover a big shoebox. What a waste! However, she came to him on Christmas and gave him the shoebox. It was her gift to him. But, when he opened the shoebox, it was empty. What?! He looked sternly at his child and told her there needed to ...
Mr. Waterby wants to buy a set of Edgar Allen Poe books for Christmas. However, when he tells his wife, she discourages him from buying the set. He starts to wonder why she does not let him buy the set. Does she want all money for herself? Grumpily, he decides that he also will not buy anything for her. In the end, she gets him the Poe set as a gif...
On Christmas Eve, a wife discovers she has only a few dollars to buy a present for her husband. So she sells her beautiful long hair and buys a gift: a pocket watch chain. Her husband comes home, and she gives him her gift. Jim gives Della a set of combs and tells his wife that he sold his watch to buy the combs for her. Both received gifts they co...
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Jul 27, 2019 · But we’ve recently turned our thoughts towards Christmas literature for a whole host of reasons, so thought we’d offer ten of the greatest short stories about Christmas. These are stories set around Christmas time, or during the Christmas holidays, which reflect the jubilation as well as the turmoil of that season.
A Christmas Tale (French: Un conte de Noël) is a 2008 French Christmas comedy-drama film co-written and directed by Arnaud Desplechin, starring Catherine Deneuve, Jean-Paul Roussillon, Mathieu Amalric, Anne Consigny, Melvil Poupaud, Emmanuelle Devos and Chiara Mastroianni.
Jan 6, 2020 · 59. 23K views 4 years ago #MoviePredictor #Trailer #BestMovie. The troubled Vuillard family is no stranger to illness, grief, and banishment, but when their matriarch requires a bone-marrow...
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Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, commonly known as A Christmas Carol, is a novella by Charles Dickens, first published in London by Chapman & Hall in 1843 and illustrated by John Leech.
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Dec 14, 2017 · Read a lively collection of Christmas stories, fairy tales and folklore from Russia, North America, France and more.
