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$5.48The Story
Written by Clement C. Moore
Exquisitely detailed drawings by Matt Tavares embody the spirit of a magical night now in a lavish, full-size gift edition marking the two-hundredth anniversary of the classic poem.
The stockings were hung by the chimney with care,
in hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there.
Once upon a time, children imagined St. Nicholas as a stern, skinny bishop who was as likely to dole out discipline as Christmas presents. But thanks to the poem āAccount of a Visit from St. Nicholasāāwritten by Clement C. Moore in 1822 and published the next year in theĀ Troy Sentinelāa plumper, merrier St. Nick was born, transformed into the sleigh-riding, chimney-diving jolly old elf we now call Santa Claus. With gorgeous monochrome illustrations by Matt TavaresĀ that are meticulously true to pre-Victorian times, this reissue of the holiday favorite āTwas the Night Before ChristmasĀ Or Account of a Visit from St. NicholasĀ honors the poemās original language in a definitive keepsake volume.
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Written by Clement C. Moore
Exquisitely detailed drawings by Matt Tavares embody the spirit of a magical night now in a lavish, full-size gift edition marking the two-hundredth anniversary of the classic poem.
The stockings were hung by the chimney with care,
in hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there.
Once upon a time, children imagined St. Nicholas as a stern, skinny bishop who was as likely to dole out discipline as Christmas presents. But thanks to the poem āAccount of a Visit from St. Nicholasāāwritten by Clement C. Moore in 1822 and published the next year in theĀ Troy Sentinelāa plumper, merrier St. Nick was born, transformed into the sleigh-riding, chimney-diving jolly old elf we now call Santa Claus. With gorgeous monochrome illustrations by Matt TavaresĀ that are meticulously true to pre-Victorian times, this reissue of the holiday favorite āTwas the Night Before ChristmasĀ Or Account of a Visit from St. NicholasĀ honors the poemās original language in a definitive keepsake volume.
