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A Literary Christmas: An Anthology gamesThis seasonal compendium collects together poems, short stories, and prose extracts by some of the greatest poets and writers in the English language. Like Charles Dickens's ghosts of Christmas Past and Present, they are representative of times old and new from John Donne's Elizabethan hymn over the baby Jesus to Benjamin Zephaniah's "Talking Turkeys," from Thomas Tusser counting the cost of a Tudor feast to P. G. Wodehouse's wry story about Christmas

moving and important’ ROBERT HARRIS 'A modern classic’ OBSERVER ‘An unforgettable epic of a book’ DAILY MAIL From longstanding political columnist and commentator Daniel Finkelstein

and reveals how and why the writings of a failed neurologist from Vienna became so influential

these recipes include Caro’s famously extensive swaps

explore the cavernous Wieliczka salt mine

Cynthia Asquith's The Corner Shop and Mary Treadgold's The Telephone

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All three figures have been vilified and mythologized

Sly tactician Lakan’s attempts at provocation lead to his own downfall when Maomao challenges him to elephant chess

brilliant scholars

they do their best to ignore each other

will do anything to protect his wards

believing in the stars