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Christmas Tales
The Night Before Christmas and 21 Other Illustrated Christmas Stories
2016
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Celebrate the season with a fully-illustrated collection of Christmas stories from around the world! Christmas is a time to gather loved ones and share stories with each other, so Fairytalez has gathered a collection of Christmas tales for you to enjoy. You’ll find beloved classics like Clement C. Moore’s The Night Before Christmas, plus The Fir Tree, The Little Match Girl and more. These stories of Christmas originate not only from the United States, but also England, Denmark, Germany, Canada, Russia, Bulgaria and more, offering a look at Christmas around the world. The book contains 22 stories by Hans Christen Andersen, Lucy Maude Montgomery, Eugene Field, Laura Lee Hope, E.T.A Hoffman and other great storytellers, and features more than 70 illustrations. Enjoy this specially-designed collection of Christmas stories for Kindle! List of stories, including author/editor and origin: The Night Before Christmas by Clement C. Moore, United States Christmas Every Day by William Dean Howells, United States The Fir Tree by Hans Christen Andersen, Denmark The Symbol and the Saint by Eugene Field, United States The Elves and the Shoemaker by the Brothers Grimm, Germany The Night After Christmas by Unknown, United States The Osbornes’ Christmas by Lucy Maude Montgomery, Canada The Legend of the Christmas Tree by Lucy Wheelock, United States The Little Match Girl by Hans Christen Andersen, Denmark The Nutcracker by E.T.A Hoffman, Germany Story of a Nodding Donkey by Laura Lee Hope, United States Old Father Christmas by J.H. Ewing, England Boreas Bluster’s Christmas Present by Mrs. W.J. Hays, England Babouscka by Adelaide Skeel, Russia A Night with Santa Claus by Anna R. Annan, United States Piccola by Kate Douglas Wiggin & Nora A. Smith, United States Father Christmas at Home by Mrs. M.H. Spielmann, United Kingdom The Animals’ Christmas Tree by John P. Peters, United States The Christmas Princess by Mrs. Molesworth, United Kingdom The Little Girl and the Winter Whirlwinds by Unknown, Bulgaria The Cat on the Dovrefell by Asbjørnsen & Moe, Norway The Bad Little Goblin’s New Year by Mary Stewart, United Kingdom

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Authors

Clement Clarke Moore
Clement Clarke Moore
Author · 4 books

Clement Clarke Moore, (July 15, 1779 – July 10, 1863), is best known as the credited author of A Visit From St. Nicholas (more commonly known today as Twas the Night Before Christmas). Clement C. Moore was more famous in his own day as a professor of Oriental and Greek literature at Columbia College (now Columbia University) and at General Theological Seminary, who compiled a two volume Hebrew dictionary. He was the only son of Benjamin Moore, a president of Columbia College and bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of New York, and his wife Charity Clarke. Clement Clarke Moore was a graduate of Columbia College (1798), where he earned both his B.A. and his M.A.. He was made professor of Biblical learning in the General Theological Seminary in New York (1821), a post that he held until 1850. The ground on which the seminary now stands was his gift. [1] From 1840 to 1850, he was a board member of The New York Institution for the Blind at 34th Street and 9th Avenue (now The New York Institute for Special Education). He compiled a Hebrew and English Lexicon (1809), and published a collection of poems (1844). Upon his death in 1863 at his summer residence in Newport, Rhode Island, his funeral was held in Trinity Church, Newport, where he had owned a pew. Then his body was interred in the cemetery at St. Luke's Episcopal Church on Hudson St., in New York City. On November 29, 1899, his body was reinterred in Trinity Churchyard Cemetery in New York. The Moore house, Chelsea, at the time a country estate, gave its name to the surrounding neighborhood of Chelsea, Manhattan, and Moore's land in the area is noted today by Clement Clark Moore Park, located at 10th Avenue and 22nd Street. The playground there opened November 22, 1968, and it was named in memory of Clement Clarke Moore by local law during the following year. The 1995 renovations to Clement Clarke Moore Park included a new perimeter fence, modular play equipment, safety surfacing, pavements and transplanted trees. This park is a popular playground area for local residents, who gather there the last Sunday of Advent for a reading of Twas the Night Before Christmas. [2] Much of the neighborhood was once the property of Maj. Thomas Clarke, Clement's maternal grandfather and a retired British veteran of the French and Indian War. Clarke named his house for a hospital in London that served war veterans. 'Chelsea' was later inherited by Thomas Clarke's daughter, Charity Clarke Moore, and ultimately by grandson Clement and his family. Clement Clarke Moore's wife, Catharine Elizabeth Taylor, was of English and Dutch descent being a direct descendant of the Van Cortlandt family, once the major landholders in the lower Hudson Valley of New York. As a girl, Moore's mother, Charity Clarke, wrote letters to her English cousins that are preserved at Columbia University and show her disdain for the policies of the English Monarchy and her growing sense of patriotism in pre-revolutionary days. The Moore children have several living descendants among them members of the Ogden family. In 1855, one of Clement's daughters, Mary C. Moore Ogden painted 'illuminations' to go with her father's celebrated verse. A book with her paintings as illustrations is A Visit from St. Nicholas (Twas the Night Before Christmas). Copyright 1995 by International Resourcing Services, Inc., 60 Revere Drive, Suite 725, Northbrook, Illinois, 60062.

Jacob Grimm
Jacob Grimm
Author · 168 books

German philologist and folklorist Jakob Ludwig Karl Grimm in 1822 formulated Grimm's Law, the basis for much of modern comparative linguistics. With his brother Wilhelm Karl Grimm (1786-1859), he collected Germanic folk tales and published them as Grimm's Fairy Tales (1812-1815). Indo-European stop consonants, represented in Germanic, underwent the regular changes that Grimm's Law describes; this law essentially states that Indo-European p shifted to Germanic f, t shifted to th, and k shifted to h. Indo-European b shifted to Germanic p, d shifted to t, and g shifted to k. Indo-European bh shifted to Germanic b, dh shifted to d, and gh shifted to g. This jurist and mythologist also authored the monumental German Dictionary and his Deutsche Mythologie . Adapted from Wikipedia.

Hans Christian Andersen
Hans Christian Andersen
Author · 203 books

Hans Christian Andersen (often referred to in Scandinavia as H.C. Andersen) was a Danish author and poet. Although a prolific writer of plays, travelogues, novels, and poems, Andersen is best remembered for his fairy tales. Andersen's popularity is not limited to children; his stories—called eventyr, or "fairy-tales" — express themes that transcend age and nationality. Andersen's fairy tales, which have been translated into more than 125 languages, have become culturally embedded in the West's collective consciousness, readily accessible to children, but presenting lessons of virtue and resilience in the face of adversity for mature readers as well. Some of his most famous fairy tales include "The Little Mermaid", "The Ugly Duckling", "The Nightingale", "The Emperor's New Clothes" and many more. His stories have inspired plays, ballets, and both live-action and animated films.

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