| CHRISTMAS OBSERVED brings together a selection of the best literature written on this celebration over the centuries. The first part of the volume contains seven pieces on the spiritual meaning of the event itself, from the piety of John Milton s On the Morning of Christ sNativity through to the modern-dayconcern of men such as Anthony Rossand Hugh MacDiarmid. In contrasts,G. K. Chesterton provides an entertain-ing detective story, The Flying Stars, andRobert Louis Stevenson the chillingMarkheim, the story of a Christmasmurder. Stevenson s poem Christmasat Sea is also included, together withRudyard Kipling s Christmas in India,providing a glimpse of Christmas abroad.Sir Arthur Conan Doyle s humorous ( andhitherto unpublished in book form) AnExciting Christmas Eve, together withexamples of the humour of Saki, P. G.Wodehouse and Arnold Bennett, illus-trate the lighter side of the festivities.Extracts from the diaries of Samuel Pepysand T.B. Macaulay s History of England,together with Joseph Addison s SirRogeron Christmas provide an insight intoChristmas past, and a collection ofpoems, including Thomas Hardy s Christ-mas, 1924, shows Christmas in the |
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