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As a sentimental story with a moral lesson about gift-giving, it has been popular for adaptation, especially for presentation at Christmas time. The plot and its twist ending are well known; the ending is generally considered an example of cosmic irony. [2] The story was allegedly written at Pete's Tavern [3] on Irving Place in New York City.
Christmas advertising mentioning gifts from c. 1900 Christmas presents for World War I soldiers awaiting shipment, 1917. Some early Christian rulers, however, interpreted this story as indications that it should be their subjects who should give gifts to their superiors, and insisted on tributes and tithes during that period.
Christmas Party (short story) A Christmas Tragedy; A Christmas Tree and a Wedding; Christmas with the Dead (short story) The Clergyman's Daughter (short story) D.
The animated short “An Almost Christmas Story” completes Alfonso Cuaron’s trifecta of Christmas stories. This time, he turned to “The Green Knight” director David Lowery to helm the ...
1. "Let Your goodness, Lord, appear to us, that we, made in your image, conform ourselves to it. In our own strength we cannot imitate Your majesty, power, and wonder
"The Greatest Gift" is a 1943 short story written by Philip Van Doren Stern, loosely based on the Charles Dickens 1843 novella A Christmas Carol, which became the basis for the film It's a Wonderful Life (1946). It was self-published as a booklet in 1943 and published as a book in 1944.
Short Christmas movie quotes “Seeing isn’t believing; believing is seeing.” — Charlie, “The Santa Claus 2" "But sir, Christmas is a time for giving ... a time to be with one’s family.”
Holidays on Ice is a 1997 collection of essays and stories about Christmas, some new and some previously published, by David Sedaris. Sedaris was named by The Economist as one of the funniest writers alive. [1] This is one of his first works, which was subsequently re-released with additional new passages.