The Greatest Gift: A Christmas Tale
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780615524566 (0615524567)
Publish date: September 5th 2011
Publisher: Graphic Image Inc.
Edition language: English
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 t...
★★★★★ A lot of people rate this book down because it is so much less than the movie. However, this is the original idea that was printed as a Christmas card and sent out to the author’s friends in 1943. Really, it is a short story. Neat to read the “afterword” by the author’s daughter, discussing...