Christmas Every Day and Other Stories

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Christmas Every Day and Other Stories is a book of stories told for children by William Dean Howells. The contents list Christmas Every Day, Turkeys Turning the Tables, The Pony Engine and the Pacific Express, The Pumpkin-Glory, and Butterflyflutterby and Flutterbybutterfly. A little girl is said to have a splendid Christmas all day and to eat so much candy that she did not want any breakfast.

A story about two little pumpkin seeds says that they knew where they were well enough, lay low, and let the rain and the sun soak in and swell them up. In a scene with a fairy godmother, the court ladies all asked to be excused, but the fairy godmother would not excuse one of them, and the text calls it a failure as far as the Khan and the Khant were concerned.

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William Dean Howells

William Dean Howells (1837 to 1920) was one of the most influential American men of letters of his era, an editor, critic, and prolific novelist. He championed literary realism, supported writers like Mark Twain, and used his own fiction to examine money, class, and conscience in American society.