"May Your Days be Merry and Bright": Christmas Stories by WomenThese short stories, written over the last 120 years by leading American women writers, reflect all of the varied emotions of Christmas, and through their literary craft enrich the many meanings of the Christmas holidays. |
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In a minute she had grown suddenly livid and awful to see , rearing her lank figure to its full height against the steel and blood- colored background of the sky , where a sudden gap in the crowd had left her alone . " You stop that !
In a minute she had grown suddenly livid and awful to see , rearing her lank figure to its full height against the steel and blood- colored background of the sky , where a sudden gap in the crowd had left her alone . " You stop that !
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The reek of a passing brewer's wagon , and white faces look after , suddenly famished . When the familiar pungency of her boardinghouse flowed in and round Mrs. Violet Smith , she paused for a moment and could not push through the ...
The reek of a passing brewer's wagon , and white faces look after , suddenly famished . When the familiar pungency of her boardinghouse flowed in and round Mrs. Violet Smith , she paused for a moment and could not push through the ...
Pagina 153
When I seen it was snowin ' I'd ' a ' killed somebody to get it . I — I had to have it and we got it , darlin ' , we - we got it - a cool hundred ! " He lay back on the pillow , suddenly limp , the bill fluttering to the coverlet ...
When I seen it was snowin ' I'd ' a ' killed somebody to get it . I — I had to have it and we got it , darlin ' , we - we got it - a cool hundred ! " He lay back on the pillow , suddenly limp , the bill fluttering to the coverlet ...
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Acknowledgments | 9 |
Louisa May Alcott A March Christmas | 16 |
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Old Mother Goose | 34 |
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"May Your Days be Merry and Bright" and Other Christmas Stories by Women Susan Koppelman Fragmentweergave - 1988 |
"May Your Days be Merry and Bright": Christmas Stories by Women Susan Koppelman Fragmentweergave - 1991 |
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