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Stories of Saint Nicholas (1995)

Stories of Saint Nicholas (1995)

Literary Fiction

Paulding, James Kirke

Year: 1995
Authors: Paulding, James Kirke
Print type: BOOK

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."