····· lezzter Preis 0.99€ ···· Rheinberg-Buch.de - Bücher, eBooks, DVD & Blu-ray `Christmas Classics` is proud to present you a carefully selected range of fiction and prose for the most beautiful time of the year. Besides best-known classics we also offer a huge variety of out-of-print books and titles long forgotten. You can spot them easily by the red book cover and the golden bells in the middle. ····· 1036145633
····· lezzter Preis 0.99€ ···· Rheinberg-Buch.de - Bücher, eBooks, DVD & Blu-ray An account of the ¿rst Christmas with a consideration of its significance. ····· ····· ····· ····· ····· ····· ····· ····· ····· ····· ····· ····· ····· ····· ····· ····· ····· 1036145632
····· lezzter Preis 0.99€ ···· Rheinberg-Buch.de - Bücher, eBooks, DVD & Blu-ray Anyone who are not acquainted with the celebrated Colonel Carter of Cartersville will make his acquaintance under the most fortunate circumstances in this story, while those who know him of old, and of course love him, will find here, in addition to the renewal of an old and delightful friendship, quite a new revelation of a character that has made a deep and lasting impression. All the old characters are met again: Chad, the Colonel`s servant, Aunt Nancy, Fitz, Klutchem, and the Major, together with two new ones. In the old story the Colonel triumphed financially in this one the issue hangs upon sheer courtesy and nobility of heart. ····· 1036145631
····· lezzter Preis 0.99€ ···· Rheinberg-Buch.de - Bücher, eBooks, DVD & Blu-ray Christmas is our most important holiday, and its literature is correspondingly rich. Yet until now no adequate bundle of Christmas treasures in poetry and prose has found its way into the library of Santa Claus. While this book brings to children of all ages, in school and at home, the best lyrics, carols, essays, plays and stories of Christmas, its scope is yet wider. For the Introduction gives a rapid view of the holiday`s origin and development, its relation to cognate pagan festivals, the customs and symbols of its observance in different lands, and the significance and spirit of the day. This Introduction endeavors to be as suggestive as possible to parents and teachers who are personally conducted and introduced to the host of writers learned and quaint, human and pedantic, humorous and brilliant and profound, who have dealt technically with this fascinating subject. ····· 1036145630
····· lezzter Preis 0.99€ ···· Rheinberg-Buch.de - Bücher, eBooks, DVD & Blu-ray The best qualities of Mr. E. P. Roe are seen in this short story. It is a piece of good workmanship, of which the invention, vivacity, tender sentiment and delicate pathos hold the reader`s attention to the end. `Christmas Eve in War Times` is particularly striking in its fine contrasts and descriptive power. ····· 1036145629
····· lezzter Preis 0.99€ ···· Rheinberg-Buch.de - Bücher, eBooks, DVD & Blu-ray `Christmas Classics` is proud to present you a carefully selected range of fiction and prose for the most beautiful time of the year. Besides best-known classics we also offer a huge variety of out-of-print books and titles long forgotten. You can spot them easily by the red book cover and the golden bells in the middle. ····· 1036145628
····· lezzter Preis 0.99€ ···· Rheinberg-Buch.de - Bücher, eBooks, DVD & Blu-ray `Christmas Classics` is proud to present you a carefully selected range of fiction and prose for the most beautiful time of the year. Besides best-known classics we also offer a huge variety of out-of-print books and titles long forgotten. You can spot them easily by the red book cover and the golden bells in the middle. ····· 1036145627
····· lezzter Preis 0.99€ ···· Rheinberg-Buch.de - Bücher, eBooks, DVD & Blu-ray `Nibsy`s Christmas ` is the title of a little volume of three stories by Jacob A. Riis, the author of `How the Other Half Lives` and of ` The Children of the Poor.` These stories are based upon the author`s observations of real life in the tenement-house districts, and derive their power and their pathos from the simplicity and fidelity with which he has portrayed the characters and painted the scenes. ····· 1036145626
····· lezzter Preis 0.99€ ···· Rheinberg-Buch.de - Bücher, eBooks, DVD & Blu-ray The stories have, in large measure, those distinguished qualities which have made his great repute and popularity, and the book represents his maturity as a story teller. `A collection of stories rare for the powers of observation and the finesse displayed.` -San Francisco Chronicle. ····· 1036145625
····· lezzter Preis 0.99€ ···· Rheinberg-Buch.de - Bücher, eBooks, DVD & Blu-ray The stories in this book vie with each other in interest. Each is a finished piece of literature, rich in humor and pathos and without any offensive sermonizing they teach the loftiest lessons of kindness, thoughtfulness, and that all-comprehending sympathy which made the life of Jesus so sublime. ····· 1036145624
····· lezzter Preis 0.99€ ···· Rheinberg-Buch.de - Bücher, eBooks, DVD & Blu-ray This book contains the following beautiful Christmas tales: A Christmas Inspiration A Christmas Mistake The Red Room Aunt Cyrilla`s Christmas Basket The Josephs` Christmas The Osbornes` Christmas Bertie`s New Year Clorinda`s Gifts Ida`s New Year Cake The Christmas Surprise at Enderly Road The Falsoms` Christmas Dinner The Unforgotten One Christmas at Red Butte Uncle Richard`s New Year`s Dinner ····· 1036145623
····· lezzter Preis 0.99€ ···· Rheinberg-Buch.de - Bücher, eBooks, DVD & Blu-ray The familiar appearance of Mrs. Molesworth`s gift of delight awakens grateful anticipations which are rarely, if ever, disappointed. The literary work in A Christmas Posy is intrinsically characteristic, and the same must be acknowledged with respect to Mr. Crane`s illustrations. Still the stories, a group of six, are variable in conception. Thus their young readers will be pleased to read them, though the modern parental tendency leans towards a quicker brightness than appeals in the opening story. ····· 1036145622
····· lezzter Preis 0.99€ ···· Rheinberg-Buch.de - Bücher, eBooks, DVD & Blu-ray A pretty story of two little ones, who watched for Kris Kringle, and found, instead, a truant father. ····· ····· ····· ····· ····· ····· ····· ····· ····· ····· ····· ····· ····· 1036145621
····· lezzter Preis 0.99€ ···· Rheinberg-Buch.de - Bücher, eBooks, DVD & Blu-ray The burglar plus his innocent sister and a young millionaire are captured by a blizzard and held in a country house. Here they spend the Xmas holiday, while romance and justice accomplish their separate ends. ····· 1036145620
····· lezzter Preis 0.99€ ···· Rheinberg-Buch.de - Bücher, eBooks, DVD & Blu-ray The writings of Miss Mcintosh, so deservedly extolled for their purity and tenderness of feeling, their excellent moral, simply and unrestramedly developed, that we have much satisfaction iu welcoming the ` Christmas Guest ` and we feel convinced that few will arise from tbe perusal of this little book, full of incident, adventure, and character, without being wiser, happier, and better. ····· 1036145619
····· lezzter Preis 0.99€ ···· Rheinberg-Buch.de - Bücher, eBooks, DVD & Blu-ray `Christmas Classics` is proud to present you a carefully selected range of fiction and prose for the most beautiful time of the year. Besides best-known classics we also offer a huge variety of out-of-print books and titles long forgotten. You can spot them easily by the red book cover and the golden bells in the middle. ····· 1036145618
····· lezzter Preis 0.99€ ···· Rheinberg-Buch.de - Bücher, eBooks, DVD & Blu-ray `A Christmas Mystery: The Story of Three Wise Men ` by Mr. William J. Locke, is a powerfully related episode in the life of three eminent Londoners. ····· ····· ····· ····· ····· 1036145617
····· lezzter Preis 0.99€ ···· Rheinberg-Buch.de - Bücher, eBooks, DVD & Blu-ray A book full of fancy drills, acrostics, motion songs, tableaux, short plays, recitations in costume, for children of five to fifteen years. ····· ····· ····· ····· ····· ····· ····· 1036145616
····· lezzter Preis 0.99€ ···· Rheinberg-Buch.de - Bücher, eBooks, DVD & Blu-ray Another volume dealing with one of the most popular of juvenile heroines. It is called `The Little Colonel`s Christmas Vacation,` and in this story the little maid who has won her way into the hearts of old and young alike, is more winsome than ever. ····· 1036145615
····· lezzter Preis 0.99€ ···· Rheinberg-Buch.de - Bücher, eBooks, DVD & Blu-ray How a Christmas card called back a wandering lover to the maiden of his choice is prettily set forth, with many tender and touching details, in `The Romance of a Christmas Card, by Mrs. Riggs, better known as Kate Douglas Wiggin. New England country life and country talk are agreeably presented. It is the minister`s wife who designs the card that brings about the happy reunion of the lovers, and the reader is left to imagine the most delightful and satisfying issue to this joyous event. ····· 1036145614
····· lezzter Preis 0.99€ ···· Rheinberg-Buch.de - Bücher, eBooks, DVD & Blu-ray A charming tale that tells about the night before Christmas in the home of the Fountain family. ····· ····· ····· ····· ····· ····· ····· ····· ····· ····· ····· ····· ····· ····· 1036145613
····· lezzter Preis 0.99€ ···· Rheinberg-Buch.de - Bücher, eBooks, DVD & Blu-ray A plantation below the city is the setting for a climax in `Whistling Dick`s Christmas Stocking.` By means of a freight-car, Dick arrives in the `big, almsgiving, long-suffering city of the South, the cold weather paradise of tramps.` After a cautious survey that includes the levee `pimpled with dark bulks of merchandise,` the long line of Algiers across the river, the tugs, the ferries and the Italian luggers, Dick climbs warily down and starts, whistling, toward Lafayette Square to meet a pal. But a friendly policeman warns Dick of a new and inhospitable city ordinance, and he departs hastily for the open road. A stall keeper in the French Market gives him breakfast, and he is almost happy until Chalmette with its `vast and bewildering industry` frightens him and drives him along a country road hemmed in on one side by the high green levee and on the other by a mysterious, frog-haunted, mosquito infested marsh ... ····· 1036145612
····· lezzter Preis 0.99€ ···· Rheinberg-Buch.de - Bücher, eBooks, DVD & Blu-ray It was a sense of chillness and unreality that made Gervase Hastings the most miserable of the ten miserable guests annually assembled at the Christmas Banquet. Year after year, in accordance with the founder`s bequest, the ¿aring torches mingled their golden splendor with the purple of the dusky curtains in the somber, wreath-hung hall. Year after year the guests assembled, only each time to murmur at the bestowal of the cypress-wreath upon the only one of their number who seemed to have no grief. But his misfortune was the deepest of all: he felt no strong emotion of any kind. Joy moved him not nor grief. Men passed before him like shadows on the wall. His children came coldly to his knees. His wife wept in secret at the desolation of her life. His riches, his cultivated and scholarly taste, his library-none of these things alleviated his misfortune he was the most miserable of human beings ... ····· 1036145611