The Greatest Gift: A Christmas Tale Pdf Summary
A beautiful gift edition of the heartwarming story that became the Christmas classic, It’s a Wonderful Life.
For almost seventy years, people the world over have fallen in love with Frank Capra’s classic Christmas movie It’s a Wonderful Life. But few of those fans know that Capra’s film was based on a short story by author Philip Van Doren Stern, which came to Stern in a dream one night.
Unable at first to find a publisher for his evocative tale about a man named George Pratt who ponders suicide until he receives an opportunity to see what the world would be like without him, Stern ultimately published the story in a small pamphlet and sent it out as his 1943 Christmas card. One of those 200 cards found its way into the hands of Frank Capra, who shared it with Jimmy Stewart, and the film that resulted became the holiday tradition we cherish today.
Now fans of It’s a Wonderful Life, or anyone who loves the spirit of Christmas, can own the story that started it all in an elegant, illustrated edition that’s perfect for holiday giving. It includes an Afterword by Stern’s daughter, Marguerite Stern Robinson, that tells the story of how her father’s Christmas card became the movie beloved by generations of people around the world
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About Philip Van Doren Stern Author Of The Greatest Gift: A Christmas Tale Pdf Book
Philip Van Doren Stern Author Of The Greatest Gift: A Christmas Tale Pdf Book was an American author, editor, and Civil War historian whose story “The Greatest Gift,” published in 1943, inspired the classic Christmas film It’s a Wonderful Life (1946).
Philip Van Doren Stern was born in Wyalusing, Pennsylvania into a family of humble means. His Pennsylvania-born father was a traveling merchant of Bavarian descent, who came to Wyalusing from West Virginia with his New Jersey-born wife. Stern grew up in Brooklyn, New York and New Jersey, and graduated from Rutgers University.
After graduating from Rutgers in 1924, Philip Van Doren Stern worked in advertising before switching to a career as a designer and editor in publishing.
He was a historian and author of some 40 books and editor most known for his books on the Civil War[1] that a New York Times obituary called “authoritative” and “widely respected by scholars”. As an editor, he worked at Pocket Books, Simon & Schuster, and Alfred A. Knopf.[1] He compiled and annotated short story collections and the writings and letters of Abraham Lincoln, Edgar Allan Poe, and Henry David Thoreau.
During World War II, he was a member of the planning board of the United States Office of War Information. He was the general manager of Editions for the Armed Services, which resized popular books so Americans serving in the military could store them in the pockets of their uniforms.[1] He compiled and edited many collections and anthologies of short stories, pictorial books, annotations, and books on historical subjects.
Stern edited, compiled, and introduced The Viking Portable Poe in 1945, a compact collection of letters, short stories, poems, and essays by Edgar Allan Poe. Stern wrote the biographical introduction to the collection, selected the contents included, and wrote introductory essays on the varying genres. The collection became a standard single-volume anthology of Poe’s works for almost fifty years.
The Greatest Gift: A Christmas Tale pdf, Paperback, Hardcover Book Information
- Publisher : Simon & Schuster; Illustrated edition (October 28, 2014)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 64 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1476778868
- ISBN-13 : 978-1476778860
- Item Weight : 5.6 ounces
- Dimensions : 5 x 0.3 x 7 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #39,653 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #402 in Holiday Fiction (Books)
- #1,505 in Classic Literature & Fiction
- #3,350 in Literary Fiction (Books)
- Customer Reviews: 4.7 out of 5 stars 433 ratings
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