Книга - Star Over Bethlehem: Christmas Stories and Poems

Star Over Bethlehem: Christmas Stories and Poems
Agatha Christie


A reproduction in one unique volume of three of Agatha Christie’s rarest and most sought-after books – Star Over Bethlehem, The Road of Dreams and Poems.The most popular detective story writer of all time turns her hand to the subject of Christmas.In a manger in Bethlehem, an angel offers Mary a vision of things to come… and a chance to change it all.A naughty little donkey learns the meaning of love as he carries a very special mother and child safely to Egypt.Mrs Hargreaves wanted to like people, but didn't really know how. Then she reached out to touch a stranger, and her eyes were opened to love.Here, in this charming gift edition, Agatha Christie’s stories and poems capture the true meaning of Christmas.This special collector’s edition contains a wealth of Agatha Christie rarities - not only all the stories, poems and illustrations from her long out-of-print book Star Over Bethlehem (1965), but also a reproduction of all her rare poetry from the two collections The Road of Dreams (1924) and Poems (1973).







STAR OVER BETHLEHEM

including

THE ROAD OF DREAMS

and

POEMS



by

Agatha Christie







Copyright

Published by HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd

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London SE1 9GF

www.harpercollins.co.uk (http://www.harpercollins.co.uk)

Star over Bethlehem first published in Great Britain by Collins 1965

Poems first published in Great Britain by Collins 1973

The Road of Dreams first published in Great Britain by Geoffrey Bles 1924

Copyright © 1924, 1965 and 1973 by Agatha Christie Mallowan. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

ISBN 978-0-00-728421-4

EPub Edition © 2010 ISBN: 9780007423804

Version: 2017-04-13


Contents

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Title Page (#ubd31f457-35fc-5b3b-91aa-fd246e5c928e)

Copyright



Star Over Bethlehem’s Contents

A Greeting

Star over Bethlehem

A Wreath for Christmas

The Naughty Donkey

Gold, Frankincense and Myrrh

The Water Bus

In the Cool of the Evening

Jenny by the Sky

Promotion in the Highest

The Saints of God

The Island



Poems’s Contents

Volume I

A Masque from Italy

The Players

The Comedy of the Arts

The Prologue: Sung by Columbine

Harlequin’s Song

Pierrot’s Song to the Moon

Pierrette Dancing on the Green

Columbine’s Song

Pulcinella

The Song of Pierrot by the Hearth

The Last Song of Columbine

Pierrot Grown Old

Epilogue: Spoken by Punchinello

Ballads

The Ballad of the Flint

Elizabeth of England

The Bells of Brittany

Isolt of Brittany

Dark Sheila

Ballad of the Maytime

The Princess Sings

Dreams and Fantasies

The Dream Spinners

Down in the Wood

The Road of Dreams

Heritage

The Wanderer

The Dream City

A Passing

Other Poems

Spring

Young Morning

Hymn to Ra

A Palm Tree in the Desert

World Hymn 1914

Easter 1918

To a Beautiful Old Lady

Wild Roses

Love Passes

Progression

There Where My Lover Lies

Volume II

Things

Beauty

The Water Flows

The Sculptor

A Wandering Tune

Places

Ctesiphon

In Baghdad

An Island

The Nile

Dartmoor

To a Cedar Tree

Calvary

Love Poems and Others

Count Fersen to the Queen

Beatrice Passes

Undine

Hawthorn Trees in Spring

The Lament of the Tortured Lover

What Is Love?

To M.E.L.M. in Absence

Remembrance

A Choice

My Flower Garden

Enchantment

Jenny by the Sky

Verses of Nowadays

From a Grown-up to a Child

I Wore My New Canary Suit

Racial Musings

Picnic 1960



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STAR OVER BETHLEHEM


STAR OVER BETHLEHEM



and other stories

by

Agatha Christie Mallowan



Decorations by

Elsie Wrigley


For Hydie


A Greeting

Praise to the Yule Log!

Leap, Flames, merrily.

Hail to the Wassail Bowl!

Bubble,Wine, rosily!

In the Manger lies the Child;

Asses, Oxen, braying, lowing,

Cackling Hens and Cocks a’crowing.

Overfull the Inn to-night,

Up above a star shines bright,

Shepherds kneel beside their fold,

Wise Men bring their gifts of Gold,

Angels in the Sky above

Trumpet forth God’s gift of Love.

Waken, children, one and all,

Wake to hear the trumpet call,

Leave your sleeping, ’tis the Day,

Christmas, glorious Christmas Day!





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