The man who found Christmas by Walter Prichard Eaton
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The man who found Christmas by Walter Prichard Eaton is a sentimental holiday novella written in the early 20th century. It follows a disenchanted New York bachelor who seeks and ultimately rediscovers the meaning of Christmas—rooted in community, service, and love—in a quiet New England village. Wallace Miller, a cynical city bachelor who dines each year with friends to mock the holiday, stumbles on a childhood Christmas card that stirs his longing
for something real. He impulsively travels to North Topsville, Massachusetts, where he falls in with local children, helps build a toboggan slide, and meets Nora Woodford and her young nephew, Albert. Drawn into village life—church, snowy walks in the evergreens, and preparations for a family Christmas tree—he learns that Christmas is joy in serving others. As he and Nora quietly fall in love, Wallace embraces a new sense of home and belonging; on Christmas Eve they pledge themselves to each other, and on Christmas morning he’s welcomed by her family. He sends a simple “Merry Christmas” to his old anti-Christmas friends, having found the spirit he’d been missing. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Eaton, Walter Prichard, 1878-1957 |
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| Illustrator | Stone, Walter King, 1875-1949 |
| Title | The man who found Christmas |
| Original Publication | Boston: W. A. Wilde Company, 1927. |
| Credits | Tim Lindell, David E. Brown, Andrew Butchers, Sue Clark, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.) |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature |
| Subject | Christmas stories |
| Subject | New England -- Fiction |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 77821 |
| Release Date | Jan 31, 2026 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 290 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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