A Literary Christmas: An Anthology

by Samuel Pepys, William Wordsworth, Thomas Hardy, et al.

Book Overview

This seasonal compendium collects together poems, short stories, and prose extracts by some of the greatest poets and writers in the English language. Like Charles Dickens's ghosts of Christmas Past and Present, they are representative of times old and new--from John Donne's Elizabethan hymn over the baby Jesus to Benjamin Zephaniah's "Talking Turkeys," from Thomas Tusser counting the cost of a Tudor feast to P. G. Wodehouse's wry story about Christmas...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0712352767
• ISBN13: 9780712352765
• Release Date: November 2018
• Publisher: British Library
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 8.3"