The Better Days Books Vintage Christmas Reader

The holly, the ivy, the yule log, the hymns, Old St. Nick... Rediscover Christmas, the way it was meant to be! Make The Better Days Books Vintage Christmas Reader your ultimate, single-source resource for timeless Christmas lyrics, hymns, essays, poems, plays, stories and vintage holiday history, from names like Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, John Milton, Charles Dickens, William Shakespeare, Washington Irving, Hans Christian Andersen and dozens more - even the famous "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Clause" letter is here - all joyfully revealing and reveling in the Christmas spirit as it was understood and celebrated in Europe and America during the late 16th through the early 20th Centuries. With more than 500 pages of text and over 100 vintage Christmas illustrations, The Better Days Books Vintage Christmas Reader is the most comprehensive, informative, fun and heartwarmingly nostalgic Christmas reference ever compiled.