Stories of Saint Nicholas
By: James Kirke Paulding ; with a foreword by Frank Bergmann.
Edition: 1st Syracuse University Press ed.
Series: New York classics
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Syracuse NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 141
Subjects: Nicholas, Saint, Bp. of Myra -- Fiction.; Dutch Americans -- Fiction.
Description: Throughout the 1820s and 1830s, Paulding wrote a number of Christmas tales, the best of which are brought together in this collection and which predate Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol. Paulding presents his stories as they have been translated from the original Dutch by a fictitious author. In them Saint Nicholas - a sixteenth-century Dutch Protestant baker - miraculously befriends those who uphold Dutch traditions and sets straight those who are either mean or given to "newfangled notions."
Notes: Selection of stories originally published in: Book of Saint Nicholas. New York : Harper and Brothers, 1836.