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e-artnow presents the Christmas Specials Series. We have selected the greatest Christmas novels, short stories and fairy tales for all those who want to keep the spirit of Christmas alive with a heartwarming tale. "The Christmas Child" - Miss Priscilla Perry is an old lady who lives on a farm with her servant Nathan and her adopted niece Rhoda, young woman about twenty years old. When Aunt Priscilla's real niece dies she is forced to take in her car a little six-year-old girl name Joan. Rhoda grows fond of Joan and they form a strong bond. At Christmas Rhoda sits Joan and tells her of something she does every year, and that is to go into the barn and see if the Christ Child has come to stay in their manger. But course, that never happens. Until one year... "The Wonderful Life" tells the story of the child's life of Jesus Christ. It is a charming story of the life and death of our Lord.

Hesba Stretton was the pseudonym of Sarah Smith (27 July 1832 - 8 October 1911), an Evangelical English author of religious books for children. These were highly popular. By the late 19th century Jessica''s First Prayer had sold a million and a half copies - ten times more than Alice in Wonderland. She concocted "Hesba Stretton" from the initials of herself and four surviving siblings, along with the name of a Shropshire village she visited, All Stretton. Smith was one of the most popular Evangelical writers of the 19th century, who used her "Christian principles as a protest against specific social evils in her children''s books." Her moral tales and semi-religious stories, chiefly for the young, were printed in huge numbers and often chosen as school and Sunday-school prizes. Altogether she wrote more than 40 novels.

Excerpt: "And now Christmas was coming. Joan had never kept Christmas, and knew nothing about it. But at Aunt Priscilla's farm it was a great day, as it always had been since she could remember. Every relative who could come to the farm was invited weeks beforehand; and nothing else was talked of but Christmas Day. The Sunday evening before it came old Nathan's sermon was all about the shepherds in the field, and how they found the little babe lying in the manger; and he told the story so well that Joan did not go to sleep at all, but sat listening to him with her dark eyes wide open." Hesba Stretton was the pen name of Sarah Smith (1832-1911), an English writer of children's books. Her moral tales and semi-religious stories, chiefly for the young, were printed in huge numbers. She became a regular contributor to Household Words and All the Year Round under Charles Dickens's editorship.

La mere de Marguerite: suite de "La premiere priere de Marguerite" / traduit d'Hesba Stretton par Mme Dussaud-Roman http: //gallica.bnf.fr/ark: /12148/bpt6k5835680

Les serviteurs du roi des rois / par Hesba Stretton, ...; traduit par Mme Elisabeth Delauney. Suivi de "La vieille fille" / par Mme Elisabeth Delauney http: //gallica.bnf.fr/ark: /12148/bpt6k580444

L'equipage du Dauphin / traduit de Hesba Stretton, par Mme Elisabeth Delauney http: //gallica.bnf.fr/ark: /12148/bpt6k580443