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Book Christmas 18

Papa Panov's Special Christmas by Leo Tolstoy It was Christmas Eve and although it was still afternoon, lights had begun to appear in the...

A Christmas Memory by Truman Capote Scented acres of holiday trees, prickly-leafed holly. Red berries shiny as Chinese bells: black crows...

Old Christmas by Washington Irving I do not know a grander effect of music on the moral feelings than to hear the full choir and the...

The Mill on The Floss by George Eliot When Tom returns from school for Christmas, in this book about fraternal love, he finds the holiday...

Vanity Fair by William Thackeray The protagonist of this sprawling novel is a cynical social climber -- not the kind of person who revels...

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens Charles Dickens has packed numerous Christmas scenes into his books, but this one has a wry humor...

Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh Brideshead Revisited follows a man who, among other things, fails utterly in his marriage and...

Far From The Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy This elaborate Christmas bash in Hardy's novel doesn't end well (it is, after all, in a Hardy...

Let It Snow by John Green, Maureen Johnson, and Lauren Myracle 1. The Jubilee Express- Maureen Johnson: So, the particular Christmas Eve...

The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis When the four Pevensie children enter Narnia, it's in the grips of the White Witch,...