Booth Tarkington, William John Locke, Cyrus Townsend Brady

A Christmas Trilogy

Beasley's Christmas Story, a Little Book for Christmas, a Christmas Mystery

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Produktbeschreibung

A Christmas Trilogy combines three classic Christmas books into one single volume. Beasley's Christmas Party - The Honorable David Beasley is a rather quiet man, a state congressman and well respected by his peers and constituents. However, his neighbors begin to see him acting peculiarly; talking to himself, doing strange things around his house and just being odd. All is not as it seems as everyone comes to understand on Christmas Eve. A Christmas Mystery - What happens when three notable men are curiously invited to Foullis Castle? Intrigue...It's a Christmas Mystery that ensues. A Little Book for Christmas - Peace on Earth, Good Will toward Men... "There was a time when the spirit of Christmas was of the present. There is a period when most of it is of the past. There shall come a day perhaps when all of it will be of the future. The child time, the present; the middle years, the past; old age, the future." A Little Book for Christmas is comprised of nine stories for boys, girls and adults and is sure to fill each with the Spirit of Christmas.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bottom of the Hill Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 144
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 8mm
• Gewicht: 220g
• ISBN-13: 9781935785606
• ISBN-10: 1935785605
• Artikelnr.: 31720138

Autorenporträt

Newton Booth Tarkington was an American author and playwright who lived from July 29, 1869, to May 19, 1946. His books The Magnificent Ambersons (1918) and Alice Adams (1921) are his most famous works. He has won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once. The other three are William Faulkner, John Updike, and Colson Whitehead. In the 1910s and 1920s, he was thought to be the best live American author. A number of his stories have been turned into movies. Tarkington, Meredith Nicholson, George Ade, and James Whitcomb Riley were some of the writers who helped Indiana have a Golden Age of writing in the first quarter of the 20th century. Booth Tarkington was in the Indiana House of Representatives for one term. He didn't like how cars came about, and many of his stories took place in the Midwest. He finally moved to Kennebunkport, Maine, and kept doing the work he had always done, even though he lost his sight. Tarkington was born on July 29, 1869, in Indianapolis, Indiana. His father was a judge, and his mother was an officer. He came from a wealthy family in the Midwest that had lost a lot of money in the Panic of 1873.