{"id":759,"date":"2007-12-19T00:59:17","date_gmt":"2007-12-19T04:59:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/archives\/759"},"modified":"2007-12-17T00:01:46","modified_gmt":"2007-12-17T04:01:46","slug":"readings-for-advent-and-christmas-from-gutenberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/archives\/759","title":{"rendered":"Readings for Advent and Christmas from Gutenberg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of my favorite and often-visited websites is that of the <strong>Project Gutenberg<\/strong>. There are over 20,000 free books (electronic texts) in the Project Gutenberg Online Book Catalog, a bibliophile&#8217;s dream! It&#8217;s been a great source of reading material for my very cool <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonystyle.com\/webapp\/wcs\/stores\/servlet\/ProductDisplay?catalogId=10551&#038;storeId=10151&#038;langId=-1&#038;productId=8198552921665245739.\">SONY Reader<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p>The good folks at Project Gutenberg have a nice collection of recommended Advent and Christmas readings. Most of these are short enough for a daily reading in addition to your daily lectionary readings. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/gutenberg.thumbnail.jpg' alt='Johannas Gutenberg' \/><br \/>\n<strong>Johannes Gutenberg (c1400-1468)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Here are the titles on their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/wiki\/Advent_Calendar \">Advent Calendar<\/a> reading list, I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ll recognize some of them: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens<\/li>\n<li>The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry<\/li>\n<li>The Story of the Other Wise Man by Henry Van Dyke<\/li>\n<li>Old Christmas From the Sketch Book of Washington Irving by Washington Irving<\/li>\n<li>Christmas Tales and Christmas Verse by Eugene Field<\/li>\n<li>The Spirit of Christmas by Henry Van Dyke<\/li>\n<li>A Christmas Garland by Sir Max Beerbohm<\/li>\n<li>The Feast of St. Friend by Arnold Bennett<\/li>\n<li>Lill&#8217;s Travels in Santa Claus Land by Farman and Pratt and Towne<\/li>\n<li>The Romance of a Christmas Card by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin<\/li>\n<li>A Defective Santa Claus by James Whitcomb Riley<\/li>\n<li>Christmas in Legend and Story by Elva S. Smith<\/li>\n<li>A Christmas Sermon by Robert Louis Stevenson<\/li>\n<li>The Christmas Books of Mr. M.A. Titmarsh by William Makepeace Thackeray<\/li>\n<li>Yule-Tide in Many Lands by Mary Poague Pringle and Clara A. Urann<\/li>\n<li>The Thin Santa Claus by Ellis Parker Butler<\/li>\n<li>Christmas Sunshine by Various<\/li>\n<li>Peace on Earth, Good-will to Dogs by Eleanor Hallowell Abbott<\/li>\n<li>In the Yule-Log Glow, Book I<\/li>\n<li>A Napa Christchild; and Benicia&#8217;s Letters by Charles A. Gunnison<\/li>\n<li>A Reversible Santa Claus by Meredith Nicholson<\/li>\n<li>Colonel Crockett&#8217;s Co-operative Christmas by Rupert Hughes<\/li>\n<li>A Visit From Saint Nicholas by Clement Clarke Moore<\/li>\n<li>Twas the Night before Christmas by Clement Clarke Moore.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In addition to those titles on their Advent Calender they offer a &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/wiki\/Christmas_%28Bookshelf%29\">Christmas Bookshelf<\/a>&#8221; that contains downloadable short stories, short illustration Christmas books, novels, poetry, children&#8217;s books, plays, non-fiction, and music. Did I mention these are FREE? Project Gutenberg depends on volunteers and donations to provide this great resource, so donations are welcomed. Instructions for making donations are on their website.<\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/galindobanner5.jpg' alt='galindobanner5.jpg' \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my favorite and often-visited websites is that of the Project Gutenberg. There are over 20,000 free books (electronic texts) in the Project Gutenberg Online Book Catalog, a bibliophile&#8217;s dream! It&#8217;s been a great source of reading material for &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/archives\/759\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,16,39],"tags":[55,79,78,76,42,77],"class_list":["post-759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-reviews-recommendations","category-children","category-liturgical-seasons","tag-advent","tag-christmas-readings","tag-e-books","tag-gutenberg","tag-israel-galindo","tag-sony-reader"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}