Four short Heart-warming Christmas stories - by author John Kendrick Bangs. Also includes a few Christmas poems by the author.The stories were published in 1912 but have a real Victorian/Dickensian Christmas feel about them.
The first is "The Conversion of Hetherington" - a story about a wealthy man who temporarily stands in for a poor man employed to be a Santa.
The second is "The Child Who Had Everything But" - about a man who is taken by a ghost to visit a sad little boy.
The third is "Santa Claus and Little Billee" - about a boy who gets lost and meets "Santa"
Finally there's "The House of the Seven Santas" - about a freezing child who is rescued by some benevolent men stranded at their Club during a snowstorm.
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12 comments
Boz
23 Dec 16#1
Boz
23 Dec 16#2
John Kendrick Bangs
majestic2012
23 Dec 16#3
Excellent work as always, Boz. A very Merry Christmas to you and yours.
Boz
23 Dec 16#4
Thank You Merry Christmas :smile:
lynchyp00
23 Dec 16#5
Merry Christmas Boz :smile:
Boz
23 Dec 16#6
Thank You Seasons Greetings Have A Very Merry Christmas XX :grin:
Forgottenshopper
23 Dec 16#7
Thanks as Always and A very Merry Christmas to you and yours..
Forgottenshopper
23 Dec 16#8
Also free on Amazon UK from the same author - John Kendrick Bangs:- About the Author John Kendrick Bangs (born May 27, 1862, died January 21, 1922). He was an American author, editor and satirist. In 1904 he was appointed editor of Puck, perhaps the foremost American humor magazine of its day.
Ghosts I Have Met and Some Others Kindle Edition by John Kendrick Bangs (Author) amazon.co.uk/Gho…1-2
R. Holmes & Co. Being the Remarkable Adventures of Raffles Holmes, Esq., Detective and Amateur Cracksman by Birth Kindle Edition by John Kendrick Bangs (Author) amazon.co.uk/Rem…1-3
A Proposal Under Difficulties A Farce Kindle Edition by John Kendrick Bangs (Author) amazon.co.uk/Pro…1-4
Mr. Bonaparte of Corsica Kindle Edition by John Kendrick Bangs (Author) amazon.co.uk/Bon…1-5
Over the Plum Pudding Kindle Edition by John Kendrick Bangs (Author) amazon.co.uk/Ove…1-6
The Enchanted Typewriter Kindle Edition by John Kendrick Bangs (Author) amazon.co.uk/Enc…1-7
Forgottenshopper
23 Dec 16#9
A House-Boat on the Styx Kindle Edition by John Kendrick Bangs (Author) amazon.co.uk/Hou…YQM
The Pursuit of the House-Boat Being Some Further Account of the Divers Doings of the Associated Shades, under the Leadership of Sherlock Holmes, Esq. Kindle Edition by John Kendrick Bangs (Author), Peter Newell (Illustrator) amazon.co.uk/Pur…-10
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The first is "The Conversion of Hetherington" - a story about a wealthy man who temporarily stands in for a poor man employed to be a Santa.
The second is "The Child Who Had Everything But" - about a man who is taken by a ghost to visit a sad little boy.
The third is "Santa Claus and Little Billee" - about a boy who gets lost and meets "Santa"
Finally there's "The House of the Seven Santas" - about a freezing child who is rescued by some benevolent men stranded at their Club during a snowstorm.
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12 comments
John Kendrick Bangs
About the Author
John Kendrick Bangs (born May 27, 1862, died January 21, 1922). He was an American author, editor and satirist. In 1904 he was appointed editor of Puck, perhaps the foremost American humor magazine of its day.
Ghosts I Have Met and Some Others Kindle Edition
by John Kendrick Bangs (Author)
amazon.co.uk/Gho…1-2
R. Holmes & Co. Being the Remarkable Adventures of Raffles Holmes, Esq., Detective and Amateur Cracksman by Birth Kindle Edition
by John Kendrick Bangs (Author)
amazon.co.uk/Rem…1-3
A Proposal Under Difficulties A Farce Kindle Edition
by John Kendrick Bangs (Author)
amazon.co.uk/Pro…1-4
Mr. Bonaparte of Corsica Kindle Edition
by John Kendrick Bangs (Author)
amazon.co.uk/Bon…1-5
Over the Plum Pudding Kindle Edition
by John Kendrick Bangs (Author)
amazon.co.uk/Ove…1-6
The Enchanted Typewriter Kindle Edition
by John Kendrick Bangs (Author)
amazon.co.uk/Enc…1-7
by John Kendrick Bangs (Author)
amazon.co.uk/Hou…YQM
The Pursuit of the House-Boat Being Some Further Account of the Divers Doings of the Associated Shades, under the Leadership of Sherlock Holmes, Esq. Kindle Edition
by John Kendrick Bangs (Author), Peter Newell (Illustrator)
amazon.co.uk/Pur…-10
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