The Faber Book of Christmas
Language: English
Published by Faber & Faber, London, 1996
- First Edition
- Hardcover
- New
Seller: June Samaras, STREETSVILLE, ON, CanadaJune Samaras
AbeBooks seller since November 9, 2007
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From the abundant writing on Christmas - historical, literary, popular, mythical - comes this eclectic anthology which includes familiar pieces by Betjeman, Auden, Hardy and Dickens, as well as more obscure extracts.An interesting anthology of poems, stories, legends and traditions of Christmas - with some very unusual facts and fancies.xiii,429p. index.Crisp unread copy.
Seller Inventory # 045029
- Title
- The Faber Book of Christmas
- Author
- Rae,Simon [Ed]
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber, London
- Publication year
- 1996
- Condition
- New
- Dust jacket
- New
- Binding
- Half-Leather
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 057117440X
- ISBN 13
- 9780571174409
- Edition
- 1st UK Edition
- Seller catalogs
- Christmas, GIFT BOOKS, Z$aS
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Review
At Christmas little children sing and merry bells jingle,--Wendy Cope
The cold winter air makes our hands and faces tingle
And happy families go to church and cheerily they mingle
And the whole business is unbelievably dreadful, if you're single.
Simon Rae's brilliant The Faber Book of Christmas is a bold collection of musings on Christmas past, present and future and scopes the centuries for poems, stories, essays and anecdotes from the pens of the mighty, logging all the emotions that enforced merriment can bring on the hardworking soul. From musings on the traditional and sneaky peaks into the mindsets of those for whom Christmas is something of a chore, Rae pulls the likes of Wendy Cope and John Milton together with Auden and Dickens while scanning all things Jingle Bells across the world.
Rae maintains a reasonable balance between loving and loathing and presents a thoroughly subversive anthology which manages to cover just about every possible angle, leaving the reader in little doubt that whatever their own personal feelings about the onset of the tinsel and toyshop season, there is someone somewhere living the dream--or the nightmare--with them.
Intriguing, challenging and irreverent to the last, The Faber Book of Christmas, is a must-have for cynics seeking a source of razor-sharp quotations to cover all eventualities at the sherry-and-mince-pie reception but most of all its a spirited dip-into read that will long outlive the Christmas tree and Playstations. --Susan Harrison
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