Title: The Christmas Eve Reader
Subtitle: A Treasury of Yuletide Stories and Poems for the Whole Family
Description: A shorter version of the book *[A Christmas Feast][1]*.

Contains:
Is there a Santa Claus (New York Sun) --
Twelve days of Christmas --
Christmas at Dingley Dell, Charles Dickens --
The little match-girl, Hans Christian Andersen --
Three kings of Orient, John Henry Hokins --
The gift of the Magi, O. Henry --
Silent night, holy night, Joheph Mohr --
Christmas every day, William Dean Howells --
Christmas and New Year bells, Alfred Tennyson --
Down pens, Saki --
Christmas in a village, John Clare --
Christmas with Sir Roger, Joseph Addison --
The sheep herd, Sister Mariella --
I take supper with my wife, Antoine Gustave Droz --
Christmas carol, Sara Teasdale --
[Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL1518317W), Arthur Conan Doyle --
The three ships, Alfred Noyes.


  [1]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL16479398W/A_Christmas_Feast
Subjects: Literary collections, Christmas, Christmas stories, Christmas poetry, carbuncles, Christmas dinners, commissionaires, Fiction, Private investigators
Places: England, London, 221B Baker Street, Alpha Inn, British Museum, Covent Garden, Brixton
People: Sherlock Holmes, John H. Watson, Baker Street Irregulars, Countess of Morcar, John Horner, Peterson, Henry Baker, Breckinridge, Mrs Oakshott, Catherine Cusack, James Ryder, Mrs. Oakshott