عنوان
پدید آورنده
موضوع
رده
GT4985 .F673 2016
GT4985
.
F673
2016
کتابخانه
محل استقرار
INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
(Number (ISBN
0241267730
(Number (ISBN
9780241267738
TITLE AND STATEMENT OF RESPONSIBILITY
Title Proper
A Christmas cornucopia :
General Material Designation
[Book]
Other Title Information
the hidden stories behind our Yuletide traditions /
First Statement of Responsibility
Mark Forsyth.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
[London] UK :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Books,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2016.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
xviii, 171 pages :
Other Physical Details
illustrations ;
Dimensions
18 cm
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
Text of Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-163) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
Text of Note
Preface -- 1. Why 25 December? -- 2. The Christmas tree -- 3. Advent -- 4. Christmas carols -- 5. Santa Claus: the biography -- 6. Christmas dinner -- 7. Boxing Day -- Epilogue -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
"The unpredictable origins and etymologies of our cracking Christmas customs. For something that happens every year of our lives, we really don't know much about Christmas. We don't know that the date we celebrate was chosen by a madman, or that Christmas, etymologically speaking, means 'Go away, Christ'. Nor do we know that Christmas was first celebrated in 243 AD on 28 March - and only moved to 25 December in 354 AD. We're oblivious to the fact that the advent calendar was actually invented by a Munich housewife to stop her children pestering her for a Christmas countdown. And we would never have guessed that the invention of crackers was merely a way of popularizing sweet wrappers. Luckily, like a gift from Santa himself, Mark Forsyth is here to unwrap this fundamentally funny gallimaufry of traditions and oddities, making it all finally make sense - in his wonderfully entertaining wordy way."
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Christmas, Miscellanea.
Christmas.
DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION
Number
394
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2663
Edition
23
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CLASSIFICATION
Class number
GT4985
Book number
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F673
2016
PERSONAL NAME - PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY
Forsyth, Mark
ORIGINATING SOURCE
Date of Transaction
20200822103734.0
Cataloguing Rules (Descriptive Conventions))
rda
ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS
Electronic name
مطالعه متن کتاب [Book]
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