Santa Claus: A Biography
Gerry Bowler • McClelland & Stewart • ISBN 9780771016684
Santa Claus: A Biography
Gerry Bowler • McClelland & Stewart • ISBN-13 9780771016684
ISBN-10 0771015321 • 2005 • 1st Edition
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An entertaining, often surprising look at the life of the world’s most influential fictional character.He is the embodiment of charity and generosity, a creation of mythology, a tool of clever capitalists. The very idea of him is enduring and powerful.Santa Claus was born in early-nineteenth-century America, but his family tree goes back seven hundred years to Saint Nicholas, patron saint of children.
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