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2. A Christmas Carol - Wikipedia

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   A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, commonly known as A Christmas Carol, is a novella by Charles Dickens, first published in London by Chapman & Hall in 1843 and illustrated by John Leech. It recounts the story of Ebenezer Scrooge, an elderly miser who is visited by the ghost of his former business partner Jacob ...

3. Christmas - Wikipedia

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   The English word Christmas is a shortened form of 'Christ's Mass'. The word is recorded as Crīstesmæsse in 1038 and Cristes-messe in 1131. Crīst (genitive Crīstes) is from the Greek Χριστός (Khrīstos, 'Christ'), a translation of the Hebrew מָשִׁיחַ ‎ (Māšîaḥ, 'Messiah'), meaning 'anointed'; and mæsse is from the Latin missa, the celebration of the Eucharist.

4. List of Christmas-themed literature - Wikipedia

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   Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol. Charles Dickens, The Chimes. Charles Dickens, The Cricket on the Hearth. Charles Dickens, The Battle of Life. Charles Dickens, The Haunted Man and The Ghost's Bargain. Janet Evanovich, Visions of Sugar Plums. Frederick Forsyth, The Shepherd. Jostein Gaarder, The Christmas Mystery.

5. How the Grinch Stole Christmas! - Wikipedia

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   How the Grinch Stole Christmas! is a Christmas children's book by Theodor "Dr. Seuss" Geisel written in rhymed verse with illustrations by the author. It follows the Grinch, a cranky, solitary creature who attempts to thwart the public's Christmas plans by stealing Christmas gifts and decorations from the homes of the nearby town of Whoville on Christmas Eve.

6. The Elf on the Shelf - Wikipedia

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   0-976-99070-9. Website. elfontheshelf .com. The Elf on the Shelf: A Christmas Tradition is a 2005 American picture book for children, written by Carol Aebersold and her daughter Chanda Bell and illustrated by Coë Steinwart. The book tells a Christmas-themed story, written in rhyme, that explains how Santa Claus knows who is naughty and nice.

7. Christmas Holiday (novel) - Wikipedia

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   Christmas Holiday. Christmas Holiday is a novel by the British writer Somerset Maugham, first published in 1939 by Heinemann. Just before the outbreak of the Second World War a naïve young Englishman travels to Paris to broaden his mind. There he meets a White Russian émigré Lydia, now working as a prostitute.