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Without the door let sorrow lie,
And if for cold it hap to die,
We'll bury 't in a Christmas pie ...

--George Wither, "A Christmas Carol"


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And it was on the holy Christmas Eve that Joseph and his companions reached the Isle of Avalon.
--William of Malmesbury, "The Christmas Thorn of Glastonbury"


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"... Sure, weren't there Christmases long before there were toy-shops? No. no, laddy. Christmas lies in the hearts and memories of good folk, and ye'll find it wherever ye can find them!"
--Ruth Sawyer, This Way to Christmas


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Then they all stood up together and stared straight at the altar, to see what great gift had awakened the long-silent bells.
--Raymond MacDonald Alden, "Why the Chimes Rang"


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"... the Mayor of Gloucester is to be married on Christmas Day in the morning, and he hath ordered a coat ..."
--Beatrix Potter, The Tailor of Gloucester


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And before Little Girl could even think, she found herself all tucked up in the big fur robes beside Santa, and away they went, right out into the air, over the clouds, through the Milky Way, and right under the very handle of the Big Dipper ...
--Winnifred E. Lincoln, "Little Girl's Christmas"


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But Piccola never doubted at all
That something beautiful must befall
Every child upon Christmas-day,
And so she slept till the dawn was gray.

--Celia Thaxter, "Piccola"


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Christmas Potpourri: Holiday Etexts

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Edward Everett Hale - Lucretia P. Hale - Joseph Mills Hanson - Thomas Hardy - Marion Harland - Elizabeth Harrison - Bret Harte - Nathaniel Hawthorne - O. Henry - E. T. A. Hoffmann - Florence Holbrook - Laura Lee Hope - Edward Hopper - P. M. Hough  - William Dean Howells
small hollyJoseph Mills Hanson
"The Greatest of These" (originally published in Youth's Companion, 1902), from The Children's Book of Christmas Stories, edited by Asa Don Dickinson and Ada M. Skinner, 1926

small hollyThomas Hardy
"The Thieves Who Couldn't Help Sneezing," from Father Christmas Annual, 1877?
"The Oxen" (poem), from Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses, 1919

small hollyMarion Harland
The Christmas Holly, 1867

small hollyElizabeth Harrison
"A Story of the Christ-Child" (originally published in Christmastide, 1902), from The Children's Book of Christmas Stories, edited by Asa Don Dickinson and Ada M. Skinner, 1926
"Little Gretchen and the Wooden Shoe" (originally published in Christmastide, 1902), from The Children's Book of Christmas Stories, edited by Asa Don Dickinson and Ada M. Skinner, 1926

small hollyBret Harte
"How Santa Claus Came to Simpson's Bar" (originally published in Atlantic Monthly, March 1872), from Mrs. Skaggs's Husbands and Other Stories, 1873
"The Christmas Gift That Came to Rupert: A Story for Little Soldiers," from Mrs. Skaggs's Husbands and Other Stories, 1873
"Dick Spindler's Family Christmas," from Mr. Jack Hamlin's Mediation and Other Stories, 1894

small hollyNathaniel Hawthorne
"The Christmas Banquet" (originally published in United States Democratic Review, January 1844), from Mosses from an Old Manse, 1846

small hollyO. Henry
"Christmas by Injunction," from New York Sunday World Magazine, December 1904
"The Gift of the Magi," from The Four Million, 1906
"A Chaparral Christmas Gift," from Whirligigs, 1910
  • O. Henry Christmas stories to purchase:

  • small hollyE. T. A. Hoffmann
    "The Story of the Hard Nut" (translated by William Makepeace Thackeray), from The Nutcracker and the Mouse King, 1819
  • Hoffmann Christmas stories to purchase:

  • small hollyFlorence Holbrook
    "Why the Evergreen Trees Never Lose Their Leaves: An Old Legend" (originally published in The Book of Nature Myths, 1902), from Good Stories for Great Holidays, edited by Frances Jenkins Olcott, 1914

    small hollyLaura Lee Hope
    "Christmas," from The Bobbsey Twins, or Merry Days Indoors and Out, 1904
    "Unwelcome News," from The Bobbsey Twins at Snow Lodge, 1913

    small hollyEdward Hopper
    The Fire on the Hearth in Sleepy Hollow: A Christmas Poem of the Olden Time, 1865

    small hollyP. M. Hough
    "Kermis and St. Nicholas," from Dutch Life in Town and Country, 1903 

    small hollyWilliam Dean Howells
    "Christmas Every Day," 1892

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    small hollyWashington Irving
    Old Christmas, 1820
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    small hollySarah Orne Jewett
    "Patty's Dull Christmas" (originally published in The Independent, December 1875), from Play Days, 1878
    "Jack's Merry Christmas," from The Independent, December 1881
    "After Christmas," from The Independent, December 1882
    "An Empty Purse," from Boston Evening Transcript and Philadelphia Press, December 1895
    Betty Leicester's Christmas, 1899

    small hollySophie Jewett
    "The Christmas at Greccio," from God's Troubadour: The Story of St. Francis of Assisi, 1910

    small hollyJohn of Hildesheim
    "The Three Kings of Cologne: A Legend of the Middle Ages" (adaptation by H. S. Morris), from Good Stories for Great Holidays, edited by Frances Jenkins Olcott, 1914

    small hollyAnnie Fellows Johnston
    "Christmas," from The Giant Scissors, 1898
    "A Happy Christmas," from The Little Colonel's Holidays, 1901
    The Little Colonel's Christmas Vacation, 1905
    "Christmas Day at Eugenia's," from Mary Ware, the Little Colonel's Chum, 1908
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    Myra Kelly - Anna Bonus Kingsford - Leonard Kip - Winifred M. Kirkland
    small hollyMyra Kelly
    "A Christmas Present for a Lady," from Little Citizens: The Humours of School Life, 1904

    small hollyAnna Bonus Kingsford
    "A Village of Seers--A Christmas Story," from Dreams and Dream Stories, 1889

    small hollyLeonard Kip
    "The Ghosts at Grantley," from Hannibal's Man and Other Tales, 1878

    small hollyWinifred M. Kirkland
    "The Little Sister's Vacation" (originally published in Youth's Companion, 1903), from The Children's Book of Christmas Stories, edited by Asa Don Dickinson and Ada M. Skinner, 1926

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    Selma Lagerlöf - Mrs. M. A. L. Lane - Andrew Lang - Josephine Lawrence - Stephen Leacock - Winnifred E. Lincoln - Lillie Linden - Maud Lindsay - James Weber Linn - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    small hollySelma Lagerlöf
    "The Emperor's Vision," from Christ Legends, 1908
    "The Holy Night," from Christ Legends, 1908
    "The Wise Men's Well," from Christ Legends, 1908

    small hollyMrs. M. A. L. Lane
    "A Christmas Matinee" (originally published in Youth's Companion, 1900), from The Children's Book of Christmas Stories, edited by Asa Don Dickinson and Ada M. Skinner, 1926

    small hollyAndrew Lang
    "Why the Sea Is Salt," from The Blue Fairy Book, 1889
    "Prince Ring," from The Yellow Fairy Book, 1894
    "The Underground Workers," from The Violet Fairy Book, 1901
    "The Stones of Plouhinec," from The Lilac Fairy Book, 1910

    small hollyJosephine Lawrence
    Mr. White Helps Santa Claus, 1928
  • See also:

  • small hollyStephen Leacock
    "A Christmas Letter," from Literary Lapses, 1910  
    "Hoodoo McFiggin's Christmas," from Literary Lapses, 1910
    "The New Food," from Literary Lapses, 1910  

    small hollyWinnifred E. Lincoln
    "Little Girl's Christmas," from The Children's Book of Christmas Stories, edited by Asa Don Dickinson and Ada M. Skinner, 1926

    small hollyLillie Linden
    "Allie's Christmas Eve" (poem), from Robert Merry's Museum, February 1865

    small hollyMaud Lindsay
    "The Story of Gretchen," from Mother Stories, 1900

    small hollyJames Weber Linn
    "The Philanthropist's Christmas" (originally published in Youth's Companion, 1908), from The Children's Book of Christmas Stories, edited by Asa Don Dickinson and Ada M. Skinner, 1926

    small hollyHenry Wadsworth Longfellow
    "Christmas Bells" (poem), from Tales of a Wayside Inn, 1863
    "The Three Kings" (poem), from Birds of Passage 

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    small hollyArthur Machen
    "A New Christmas Carol" (also known as "Scrooge: 1920"), from London Evening News, December 1920

    small hollyDonald A. Mackenzie
    "The Snow Cat," from Fairy Tales from Many Lands, n.d.

    small hollyF. E. Mann
    "The Birds' Christmas" (originally published in In the Child's World by Emilie Poulsson, 1919), from The Children's Book of Christmas Stories, edited by Asa Don Dickinson and Ada M. Skinner, 1926

    small hollyOlive Thorne Miller
    "The Telltale Tile" (originally published in Kristy's Queer Christmas, 1904), from The Children's Book of Christmas Stories, edited by Asa Don Dickinson and Ada M. Skinner, 1926
    "Christmas in the Alley" (originally published in Kristy's Queer Christmas, 1904), from The Children's Book of Christmas Stories, edited by Asa Don Dickinson and Ada M. Skinner, 1926
    "Christmas Under the Snow" (originally published in Kristy's Queer Christmas, 1904), from The Children's Book of Christmas Stories, edited by Asa Don Dickinson and Ada M. Skinner, 1926

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