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054423 |
| System Details |
Requires OverDrive Media Console (WMA file size: 82516 KB; MP3 file size: 161693 KB). |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Performer |
Read by Peter Jeffrey, John Moffatt, David Timson, Susan Engel, Simon Harris, Liza Ross. |
| Note |
Duration: 5:44:23. |
| Summary |
Christmas brings out the best and worst in us, as can be seen in this evocative anthology. Among what Thomas Love Peacock calls the 'many poetical charms in the heraldings of Christmas' there are eulogies by saints and diatribes from curmudgeons. Here, Christmas is expounded by divines, sung by rustics, deplored by philosophers, made mystical in stories and summed up in a line by the poet Elizabeth Jenkins: 'The hush, the star, the baby, people being kind again'. |
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Christmas. -- Sound recordings.
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Christmas stories. -- Sound recordings.
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Christmas in literature. -- Sound recordings.
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Mumming plays. -- Sound recordings.
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Christmas plays, English. -- Sound recordings.
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Christmas poetry. -- Sound recordings.
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| Genre |
Audiobooks.
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| Added Author |
Hardyment, Christina.
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Jeffrey, Peter, 1929-1999.
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Moffatt, John, 1922-2012.
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Timson, David.
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Engel, Susan.
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Harris, Simon.
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Ross, Liza.
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| Added Title |
Christmas celebration |
| ISBN |
(sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book) |
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