Loading...Christmas Day: An American Holiday
Washington Irving, “Christmas”
Clement Clarke Moore, “A Visit from St. Nicholas”
The New York Sun, “Is There a Santa Claus?”
John Greenleaf Whittier, “The Mystic’s Christmas”
William Dean Howells, “Christmas Every Day”
Robert Frost, “Christmas Trees”
Wendell Berry, “Our Christmas Tree”
Ring Lardner, “Old Folks’ Christmas”
Grace Paley, “The Loudest Voice”
Giving and Receiving
Pearl S. Buck, “Christmas Day in the Morning”
Sandra Cisneros, “Three Wise Guys”
O. Henry, “The Gift of the Magi”
Bret Harte, “How Santa Claus Came to Simpson’s Bar”
Robert Penn Warren, “Christmas Gift”
Charity and Good Works
Kate Chopin, “Madame Martel’s Christmas Eve”
F. Scott Fitzgerald, “A Luckless Santa Claus”
Sarah Orne Jewett, “A Christmas Guest”
Maeve Brennan, “The Joker”
Gordon Weaver, “Haskell Hooked on the Northern Cheyenne”
Nathaniel Hawthorne, “The Christmas Banquet”
Redemption and Rebirth
Willa Cather, “The Burglar’s Christmas”
Kate Douglas Wiggin, “The Romance of a Christmas Card”
Henry Van Dyke, “The Story of the Other Wise Man”
Philip Van Doren Stern, “The Greatest Gift”
Joseph Bottum, “Wise Guy”
Eudora Welty, “A Worn Path”
Christmas Songs
Isaac Watts & Lowell Mason, “Joy to the World”
James Pierpont, “Jingle Bells”
Benjamin Hanby, “Up on the Housetop”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day”
Phillips Brooks, “O Little Town of Bethlehem”
Irving Berlin, “White Christmas”
ABOUT THE COVER: Christmas in America by Alphonse Maria Mucha
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