A Literary Christmas: An Anthology biography have created an immensely practical

have created an immensely practical and enlightening guide to understanding Shakespeare's language for readers

Weave them into everyday conversation and leave your enemies reeling - all without swearing

Worse still

poor Yorick

A Literary Christmas: An Anthology biography have created an immensely practicalThis seasonal compendium collects together poems, short stories, and prose extracts by some of the greatest poets and writers in the English language. Like Charles Dickens's ghosts of Christmas Past and Present, they are representative of times old and newfrom John Donne's Elizabethan hymn over the baby Jesus to Benjamin Zephaniah's "Talking Turkeys," from Thomas Tusser counting the cost of a Tudor feast to P. G. Wodehouse's wry story about Christmas