Brother Robber by Helene Christaller
Three Young Kings by George Sumner Albee
Transfiguration by Madeleine L’Engle
Willibald’s Trip to Heaven by Reimmichl
The Guest by Nikolai S. Lesskov
Christmas Day in the Morning by Pearl S. Buck
The Other Wise Man by Henry van Dyke
The Miraculous Staircase by Arthur Gordon
No Room in the Inn by Katherine Paterson
The Chess Player by Ger Koopman
The Christmas Lie by Dorothy Thomas
The Riders of St. Nicholas by Jack Schaefer
Grandfather’s Stories by Ernst Wiechert
The Vexation of Barney Hatch by B. J. Chute
The Empty Cup by Opal Menius
The Well of the Star by Elizabeth Goudge
A Certain Small Shepherd by Rebecca Caudill
The Carpenter’s Christmas by Peter K. Rosegger
What the Kings Brought by Ruth Sawyer
The Christmas Rose by Selma Lagerlöf
Twenty tales for the holiday season selected for their spiritual value and literary quality.
This is undoubtedly the most literary collection of Christmas
stories to be published this season. The editors at Plough have
taken a conservative approach, eschewing sentimental claptrap in
favor of classic, elegant writing. There are some standard-bearers
here, including Henry van Dyke's enduring yarn The Other Wise Man
and Pearl S. Buck's gentle and touching story Christmas Day in the
Morning. Some contributions are deeply theological (Madeleine
L'Engle's Transfiguration) while others offer the dark, discerning
cadences of a timeless fable (Selma Lagerlof's The Christmas Rose).
The collection has an international flavor, with stories set in
Cuba, Germany, Siberia, Palestine, Denmark and Spain, as well as in
Vermont and New York City. Readers who crave literary excellence as
well as a heartwarming Christmas message will relish this carefully
selected and intelligent anthology.
*Publishers Weekly*
If you’re giving one book for Christmas, make it this one.
*Jim Trelease, author, The Read-Aloud Handbook*
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