Not even one Christmas without a selected selection of books and stories about, by and for her and all audiences. In this there appear both works of classics and Dickens, which can not be missed, even from Truman Cloak, through those of several Spanish authors such as Emilia Brown Bazan and other names like JRR Tolkien . We take a look.
A visit of St. Nicholas - Clement C. Moore
This poem by the American Clement C. Moore is representative of Christmas around the world. Published in 1823, it revolutionized Christmas iconography by introduce for the first time a Santa Claus dressed in red, in a sleigh pulled by reindeer and filling the socks hanging from the chimneys with toys. This edition includes illustrations by Ilse Bischoff and Arthur Rackham and is translated by Luis Alberto of Cuenca in paired verses as the meter of the original.
Complete Christmas stories - Charles Dickens
Dickens indispensable in a time that cannot be more his, for something they say that he invented Christmas. And it is that few writers have evoked with so much mastery and hit the spirit of this time of year. Here they are included, in addition to the famous A Christmas Carol, four other stories of Christmas setting illustrated by Javier Olivares.
Christmas Tales and Kings - Emilia Pardo Bazán
Emilia Pardo Bazán portrayed a society with greats differences that he detailed by placing poverty together with the most ostentatious wealth. The protagonists of ethese stories embodyspects like charity, reconciliation or devotion mores mystical in a way that may seem unusual if it weren't because they happen at Christmas. Include titles like The Pope's Christmas Eve, Jesusa, The temptation of Sister Mary, The player's Christmas Eve, The nativity scene, Jeyour on Earth o Página loose.
Christmas tales - Enid Blyton
Another classic namechild and youth psyche for these dates is that of the quintessential British author of these genres. Ethis is a compilation that includes 6 stories of Christmas where children, fairies, toys and elves are the protagonists.
Spanish Christmas stories: from Bécquer to Galdós - Various authors
Es maybe one of las More completes anthologys of the Spanish Christmas story over a hundred years. In this volume caYes No none of the greats are missing authors of the second half of the XNUMXth century like Alarcón, Bécquer, Galdós, Clarín or Blasco Ibáñez. Lesser-known writers are also present, but they were equally well received by readers of the time such as Ortega Munilla or Octavio Picón, among others.s.
Letters from santa claus - JRR Tolkien
In this collection of letters and drawings gather all that the famous British author he wrote to his children every year. In hers Santa Claus tells, through ingenious adventures, some secrets such as what she usually does the rest of the year when she doesn't have to distribute gifts around the world.
Three stories. A Christmas Keepsake, A Christmas, The Thanksgiving Guest - Truman Capote
Finally, ethis title extra from Truman Capote where sand they gather three of his more memorable forays into the territory of memory, past and childhood. TOif we have three memories of family reunions and holiday celebrations like two Christmases and one Thanksgiving. Its stars Buddy, a trasubject of Truman boy, who shares two of them (A Christmas memory y The Thanksgiving Guest) with Miss sook, an eccentric spinster relative to whom he felt very close in the time he spent living with his mother's relatives in Alabama.
In the third, A christmas, Buddy travels to New Orleans to meet his father, whom he caYes No known. Throughouts the author reflects and speaks on innocence, love and evil.