A Literary Christmas: An Anthology games ISBN: 9781837584260

ISBN: 9781837584260

moving and important’ ROBERT HARRIS 'A modern classic’ OBSERVER ‘An unforgettable epic of a book’ DAILY MAIL From longstanding political columnist and commentator Daniel Finkelstein

and reveals how and why the writings of a failed neurologist from Vienna became so influential

Cynthia Asquith's The Corner Shop and Mary Treadgold's The Telephone

All three figures have been vilified and mythologized

A Literary Christmas: An Anthology games ISBN: 9781837584260This seasonal compendium collects together poems, short stories, and prose extracts by some of the greatest poets and writers in the English language. Like Charles Dickens's ghosts of Christmas Past and Present, they are representative of times old and new from John Donne's Elizabethan hymn over the baby Jesus to Benjamin Zephaniah's "Talking Turkeys," from Thomas Tusser counting the cost of a Tudor feast to P. G. Wodehouse's wry story about Christmas