I don't think there are many people out there that aren't familiar with this poem by Clement C. Moore that was originally published in 1823. Theres a reason it's a classic and that's because it captures the magic of Christmas. We've had many versions of the book over the years but the one we read from now is beautifully illustrated by Richard Johnson, this is such a gorgeous book and I can't imagine a Christmas without it! Para aquellos que estén interesados leer este cuento, existe una excelente edición de Nórdica Libros, que además viene ilustrada. People consider that Russian writer Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol ( Николай Васильевич Гоголь) founded realism in Russian literature. His works include The Overcoat (1842) and Dead Souls (1842). Twas the Night Before Christmas Part 1, Decca 71252". Img.discogs.com. Archived from the original on 2 November 2020 . Retrieved 2 November 2020. Rápidamente, iremos conociendo a los demás personajes, dado que el Diablo tiene una bruja amiga en Soróchintsi, que se llama Soloja, quien a su vez tiene un hijo llamado Vakula, el herrero, quien está enamorado de la hija de Chub, llamada Oksana y que es la joven más hermosa que se pueda encontrar en toda la comarca.

This much awaited picture book was really disappointing, I love this illustrator and was expecting another 5 star read. Maybe there was something wrong with my copy but the images were so dark you couldn't make out what they were unless you read directly under a very bright light. It's disappointing it's so dark, you can't read this by candlelight or firelight, it's too dark to read by a bedside light which is probably where most people will be reading or attempting to read this one. Even the cover was much darker than the image here on Goodreads and you could barely make out what it was. Totally different book than American writer, "Clement C. Moore's" "The Night Before Christmas". Moore's book is all "visions of sugar-plums danced in their heads" while Gogol's book has the devil running amok on the night before Christmas. Aqui viene toda esa tradición que aparece sin duda en muchos países donde el diablo con todos sus poderes se ve limitado por el ingenio campesino. Twas the Night Before Christmas Part 2, Decca 71282". Img.discogs.com. Archived from the original on 2 November 2020 . Retrieved 2 November 2020.Nadie supo en Dikanka cómo el diablo robó la Luna. Bien es verdad que el escribiente de la comarca, cuando salió de la taberna tambaleándose, dijo, y no sabemos por qué, que la veía bailar en el cielo. The poem has been called "arguably the best-known verses ever written by an American" [1] and is largely responsible for some of the conceptions of Santa Claus from the mid-nineteenth century to today. It has had a massive effect on the history of Christmas gift-giving. Before the poem gained wide popularity, American ideas had varied considerably about Saint Nicholas and other Christmastide visitors. A Visit from St. Nicholas eventually was set to music and has been recorded by many artists. A Visit from St. Nicholas, more commonly known as The Night Before Christmas and 'Twas the Night Before Christmas from its first line, is a poem first published anonymously under the title Account of a Visit from St. Nicholas in 1823 and later attributed to Clement Clarke Moore, who claimed authorship in 1837.

Do parents need to stop encouraging their young children to believe in Santa Claus? When the child grows up, are parents expected to correct this by saying something like, ”Now that you are a grownup, sorry if we fooled you but there is no Santa.” My Penguin Classic edition has a small synopsis in the beginning of the book, and I quote, "The Night Before Christmas is still read aloud to children on Christmas Eve in Ukraine and Russia". Simarliy, Clement C. Moore's book is still read aloud to American children and probably to a whole host of children of different nationalities, including Ukrainen and Russian. Moore's book is sweet. Gogol's is a bit dark, especially for children. Gogol wrote another children's book that I read recently called "Sorotchintzy Fair". The book is similar to his "The Night Before Christmas", for it's a story of good and evil, which basically that's what Gogol's "Night Before Christmas" is all about. Moore's conception of Saint Nicholas was borrowed from his friend Washington Irving, but Moore portrayed his "jolly old elf" as arriving on Christmas Eve rather than Christmas Day. At the time that Moore wrote the poem, Christmas Day was overtaking New Year's Day as the preferred genteel family holiday of the season, but some Protestants viewed Christmas as the result of "Catholic ignorance and deception" [1] and still had reservations. By having Saint Nicholas arrive the night before, Moore "deftly shifted the focus away from Christmas Day with its still-problematic religious associations". As a result, "New Yorkers embraced Moore's child-centered version of Christmas as if they had been doing it all their lives." [1] Oksana, pretendida por muchos, juega con todos los jóvenes que piden su mano pero es Vakula en quien se centrará esta historia maravillosa, quien pisando el filo de la Nochebuena, hará lo que sea por quedarse con el corazón de su amada y para ellos recurrirá al Diablo, quien no está en ninguna posición de ventaja. James Lincoln Collier (10 October 1985). Louis Armstrong: An American Genius. Oxford University Press. p.341. ISBN 978-0-19-536507-8.

Esta novela corta pertenece a un compendio mucho más grande llamado "Veladas en Dikanka". Con esta serie de relatos Gógol pretendía, ante todo, hacer despegar su carrera literaria. Estamos en los primeros pasos del romanticismo ruso y hay mucho ganapán imitando novelas románticas europeas. Gógol, viendo el panorama, dijo: "Bien, pues voy a hablar de mi tierra". I have said it from memory to my kids and maybe one grandkid, though now whole swatches of it have washed down the drain with other hurricane detritus.