“A Christmas Memory” is a short story by Truman Capote. Originally published in Mademoiselle magazine in December 1956, it was reprinted in The Selected Writings of Truman Capote in 1963. It was issued in a stand-alone hardcover edition by Random House in 1966, and it has been published in many editions and anthologies since…
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Death is Nothing at All
This poem is often read at funerals but originally from a sermon preached in St Paul’s Cathedral, London, Sunday 15th May 1910 by Henry Scott Holland; delivered following the death of King Edward VII…
How Green Was My Valley
How Green Was My Valley by Richard Llewellyn A portrait of a place and a people existing now only in memory. . . Courage came to me from the height of the mountain, and with it came the dignity of manhood, and knowledge of the Tree of Life, for now I was a branch, running… Continue reading How Green Was My Valley
Far Far Away
Far far away, behind the word mountains, far from the countries Vokalia and Consonantia, there live the blind texts. Separated they live in Bookmarksgrove right at the coast of the Semantics, a large language ocean. A small river named Duden flows by their place and supplies it with the necessary regelialia. It is a paradisematic… Continue reading Far Far Away