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Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882 -- Fiction.
Women teachers -- Fiction.
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Chiaverini, Jennifer.
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882 -- Fiction.
Women teachers -- Fiction.
School budgets -- Fiction.
Cambridge (Mass.) -- Fiction.
Boston (Mass.) -- Fiction.
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Christmas
bells
: a
novel
/ Jennifer Chiaverini.
by
Chiaverini, Jennifer.
Dutton, c2015.
Call #:
FICTION CHI
Subjects
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882 -- Fiction.
Women teachers -- Fiction.
School budgets -- Fiction.
Cambridge (Mass.) -- Fiction.
Boston (Mass.) -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9780525955245
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
317 p. ; 22 cm.
Summary:
"New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Chiaverini celebrates
Christmas
, past and present, with a wondrous
novel
inspired by the classic poem "
Christmas
Bells
," by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. I heard the
bells
on
Christmas
Day/ Their old familiar carols play/ And wild and sweet/ The words repeat/Of peace on earth, good-will to men! In 1860, the Henry Wadsworth Longfellow family celebrated
Christmas
at Craigie House, their home in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The publication of Longfellow's classic Revolutionary War poem, "Paul Revere's Ride," was less than a month hence, and the country's grave political unrest weighed heavily on his mind. Yet with his beloved wife, Fanny, and their five adored children at his side, the delights of the season prevailed. In present-day Boston, a dedicated teacher in the Watertown public school system is stunned by somber holiday tidings. Sophia's music program has been sacrificed to budget cuts, and she worries not only about her impending unemployment but also about the consequences to her underprivileged students. At the church where she volunteers as music director, Sophia tries to forget her cares as she leads the children's choir in rehearsal for a
Christmas
Eve concert. Inspired to honor a local artist, Sophia has chosen a carol set to a poem by Longfellow, moved by the glorious words he penned one
Christmas
Day long ago, even as he suffered great loss.
Christmas
Bells
chronicles the events of 1863, when the peace and contentment of Longfellow's family circle was suddenly, tragically broken, cutting even deeper than the privations of wartime. Through the pain of profound loss and hardship, Longfellow's patriotism never failed, nor did the power of his language. "
Christmas
Bells
," the poem he wrote that holiday, lives on, spoken as verse and sung as a hymn. Jennifer Chiaverini's resonant and heartfelt
novel
for the season reminds us why we must continue to hear glad tidings, even as we are tested by strife. Reading
Christmas
Bells
evokes the resplendent joy of a chorus of voices raised in reverent song."--Publisher.
Genre:
Christmas
fiction.
Biographical fiction.
Historical fiction.
Fan fiction.
Other authors:
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882.
Christmas
bells
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