Home for Christmas : Stories for Young and Old

by Klein, David G.

• ISBN13: 9781570755583
• ISBN10: 1570755582
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-02-28
• Publisher: Orbis Books

Summary

They are Some of the warmest childhood memories, those unhurried evenings around the fireplace, Christmas tree, or dinner table, when there was time for a story ... Now, with this collection, you can keep the story-telling tradition alive in your family, and pass it on to your children or grandchildren. Home for Christmas includes twenty time-honored favorites. Several are by world-famous authors; others are little-known European tales not available in English anywhere else. Selected for their literary quality and their spiritual integrity, they will resonate with readers of all ages, year after year. Book jacket.

Table of Contents

Brother Robber	1	(8)
Helene Christaller
Three Young Kings	9	(18)
George Sumner Albee
Transfiguration	27	(14)
Madeleine L'Engle
Willibald's Trip to Heaven	41	(12)
Reimmichl
The Guest	53	(12)
Nikolai S. Lesskov
Christmas Day in the Morning	65	(8)
Pearl S. Buck
The Other Wise Man	73	(30)
Henry van Dyke
The Miraculous Staircase	103	(8)
Arthur Gordon
No Room in the Inn	111	(12)
Katherine Paterson
The Chess Player	123	(12)
Ger Koopman
The Christmas Lie	135	(22)
Dorothy Thomas
The Riders of St. Nicholas	157	(30)
Jack Schaefer
Grandfather's Stories	187	(12)
Ernst Wiechert
The Vexation of Barney Hatch	199	(26)
B. J. Chute
The Empty Cup	225	(16)
Opal Menius
The Well of the Star	241	(26)
Elizabeth Goudge
A Certain Small Shepherd	267	(22)
Rebecca Caudill
The Carpenter's Christmas	289	(10)
Peter K. Rosegger
What the Kings Brought	299	(14)
Ruth Sawyer
The Christmas Rose	313
Selma Lagerlof