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Christmas
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The Stage Coach
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Christmas Eve
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Christmas Day
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The Christmas Dinner
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Old Christmas (1886) is a public domain work.
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Winter firesides and familiar holiday rituals draw Washington Irving's attention to the ties that hold families and neighbors together. These Christmas sketches from his Sketch Book combine reflections on English customs with scenes of country life. Church music, seasonal games and the warmth of hospitality give the narrator a way to consider traditions he believes are fading under the pressure of changing fashion.
At the old mansion, that affection for earlier times takes an amusingly precise form. Master Simon corrects the narrator's name for a group of peacocks and draws on old hunting books to explain their supposed qualities. Frank Bracebridge describes Simon's favorite reading, while the Squire's taste for the birds links the household to memories of formal banquets. The illustrated edition pairs Irving's prose with Randolph Caldecott's designs. Readers can enjoy both the festive atmosphere and the small social observations that give these recollections their humor.
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- Author
- Washington Irving
- Reading time
- About 80 minutes
- Pages
- 90
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Classics
- Formats
- PDF, EPUB, Read online, Audiobook
- Audio read by
- Greg Giordano