- Christmas, Fiction, Folklore, Magi
An old woman who was too busy to travel with the Wise Men to find the Child now searches endlessly for Him each Christmas season.
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Earnest, classical in form, grave and effortless.
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- effortlessdemanding
- contemplativerelentless
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About the book
- Author
- Ruth Robbins
- First published
- 1960
- Pages
- 29
- Publisher
- Tandem Library, Houghton Mifflin Company, Turtleback
- Editions
- 10
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780395276723
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First sentence
“Long ago and far away, on a winter's evening, the wind blew hard and cold around a small hut.”
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