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If you are looking for great, charming, yet real-life stories to read for your kids or stories that they can read for themselves, William Dean Howells’ Christmas Every Day and Other Stories is an excellent choice. The book includes five delightful stories, taking place around the magical time of Christmas or dealing with other situations of interest for kids. The title story is about a girl who wanted every day to be Christmas day and had her wishes granted to her by the Christmas Fairy. However, she who soon realizes that her dream come true brings about nothing but chaos and unhappiness, so she convinces the Fairy to restore the order and let people celebrate Christmas only once a year. The other stories are not less educative and entertaining, allowing children to draw their own conclusions and become wiser. Christmas Every Day is only one out of the many writings that made William Dean Howells one of the most popular and most prolific writers of his time – the end of the 19th and the first decades of the 20th century. Howells was mostly known as a literary critic, an author of realist novels and a playwright. The works that brought him the appreciation of his contemporaries included A Modern Instance, a novel published in 1882 describing how a marriage falls apart, and The Rise of Silas Lapham, Howells’ best known work and a novel about the success and the downfall of an entrepreneur. His non-fiction work – essays about Henrik Ibsen, Zola and other literary figures of his time – and his other literary activities brought him the friendship of many of his contemporaries, including Mark Twain, Henry James and William James. For a while, he pursued a career in politics, serving as consul in Venice for a few years following the elections in 1860, after which he returned home and worked as assistant editor, then editor for the prestigious Atlantic Monthly.

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Extract: "The little girl came into her papa's study, as she always did Saturday morning before breakfast, and asked for a story. He tried to beg off that morning, for he was very busy, but she would not let him. So he began: "Well, once there was a little pig… "She put her hand over his mouth and stopped him at the word. She said she had heard little pig-stories till she was perfectly sick of them. "Well, what kind of story shall I tell, then?" "About Christmas. It's getting to be the season. It's past Thanksgiving already." William Dean Howells (1837-1920) was an American realist author, literary critic, and playwright. Nicknamed "The Dean of American Letters", he was particularly known for his tenure as editor of the Atlantic Monthly as well as his own prolific writings, including the Christmas story "Christmas Every Day", and the novels The Rise of Silas Lapham and A Traveler from Altruria. "Christmas Every Day" is a short story by William Dean Howells about a young American girl, whose wish that Christmas would come daily is granted for an entire year, until she realizes the true meaning of the holiday season. Table of Contents: • Christmas Every Day • Turkeys Turning the Tables • The Pony Engine and the Pacific Express • The Pumpkin Glory • Butterflyfutterby and Flutterbybutterfly