Henry Van Dyke, Complete Collection

Résumé du livre

Henry Jackson van Dyke (1852 -1933) was an American author, educator, and clergyman. Among his popular writings are the two Christmas stories, "The Other Wise Man" (1896) and "The First Christmas Tree" (1897). Various religious themes of his work are also expressed in his poetry, hymns and the essays collected in Little Rivers (1895) and Fisherman's Luck (1899). He wrote the lyrics to the popular hymn, "Joyful, Joyful We Adore Thee" (1907), sung to the tune of Beethoven's "Ode to Joy". He compiled several short stories in The Blue Flower (1902), named after the key symbol of Romanticism introduced first by Novalis.In this book:The Story of the Other Wise ManThe MansionThe First Christmas TreeThe Spirit of ChristmasThe Lost WordThe Sad Shepherd, A Christmas StoryFighting For PeaceThe Valley of VisionThe Americanism of WashingtonThe Unruly SpriteDays Off And Other DigressionsLittle Rivers, A Book of Essays in Profitable IdlenessThe complete Poems of Henry Van Dyke