Believe in Love & Joy: The Collection of the Greatest Christmas Novels, Stories, Carols & Legends (Illustrated Edition)
Illustrated Tales, Carols & Winter LegendsBy Charles Dickens, O. Henry, Mark Twain, Beatrix Potter, Louisa May Alcott, William Shakespeare, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Emily Dickinson, Robert Louis Stevenson, Rudyard Kipling, Hans Christian Andersen, Selma Lagerlöf, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Martin Luther, Walter Scott, J. M. Barrie, Anthony Trollope, Brothers Grimm, L. Frank Baum, Lucy Maud Montgomery, George Macdonald, Leo Tolstoy, Henry Van Dyke, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Clement Moore, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, William Wordsworth, Alfred Lord Tennyson, William Butler Yeats, Eleanor H. Porter, Jacob A. Riis, Susan Anne Livingston, Ridley Sedgwick, Sophie May, Lucas Malet, Juliana Horatia Ewing, Alice Hale Burnett, Ernest Ingersoll, Annie F. Johnston, Amanda M. Douglas, Amy Ella Blanchard, Carolyn Wells, Walter Crane, Thomas Nelson Page, Florence L. Barclay, A. S. Boyd, Booker T. Washington, Lucy Wheelock, Aunt Hede, Frederick E. Dewhurst, Maud Lindsay, Marjorie L. C. Pickthall
Length442h 25m
About this audiobook
Believe in Love & Joy gathers Christmas fiction, legends, poems, carols, and devotional reflections into a capacious illustrated anthology of Anglo-American and European seasonal writing. Its range extends from domestic sentiment and children's wonder to social conscience, folklore, supernatural enchantment, and religious meditation. Familiar Christmas tales stand beside verse, moral sketches, and legendary narratives, allowing Victorian festive culture to converse with Romantic lyricism, fairy-tale tradition, and realist concern for poverty and community. The contributors form an unusually broad transnational assembly: canonical novelists and poets appear alongside children's writers, educators, illustrators, religious voices, and social reformers. Their work reflects movements central to the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries—Romanticism, Victorian domestic fiction, realism, the literary fairy tale, hymnody, and emerging literature for young readers. British, American, Scandinavian, German, Russian, and Danish traditions collectively demonstrate how Christmas became a shared yet culturally adaptable language for charity, memory, family, faith, and imaginative renewal. This volume is especially rewarding for readers seeking more than a sequence of seasonal entertainments. It offers a compact course in the changing literary meanings of Christmas, enriched by illustration and by the productive contrast of solemn carols, comic episodes, moral tales, and fantastic legends. Readers will find in its many voices both historical breadth and an enduring dialogue about generosity, joy, and human fellowship.
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GenreGeneral Fiction
Length442 hrs 25 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 3, 2018
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1THE FEAST OF ST. FRIEND - Study on the Meaning of Christmas & Holiday Spirit (Annotated)
2Preface
3Introduction
4The Origin and Associations of Christmas
5The Earlier Celebrations of the Festival
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6Novels
7Life and Adventures of Santa Claus (L. Frank Baum)
811. How the First Stockings Were Hung by the Chimneys
9Christmas-Tree Land (Mary Louisa Molesworth) (pt. 1)
10Christmas-Tree Land (Mary Louisa Molesworth) (pt. 2)
11Christmas-Tree Land (Mary Louisa Molesworth) (pt. 3)
12The Little City of Hope (F. Marion Crawford) (pt. 1)
13The Little City of Hope (F. Marion Crawford) (pt. 2)
14Peter Pan and Wendy (J. M. Barrie) (pt. 1)
15Peter Pan and Wendy (J. M. Barrie) (pt. 2)
16Peter Pan and Wendy (J. M. Barrie) (pt. 3)
17Little Women (Louisa May Alcott) (pt. 1)
18Little Women (Louisa May Alcott) (pt. 2)
19Little Women (Louisa May Alcott) (pt. 3)
20Little Women (Louisa May Alcott) (pt. 4)
21Little Women (Louisa May Alcott) (pt. 5)
22Little Women (Louisa May Alcott) (pt. 6)
23Little Women (Louisa May Alcott) (pt. 7)
24Little Women (Louisa May Alcott) (pt. 8)
25Little Women (Louisa May Alcott) (pt. 9)
26The Wonderful Wizard of OZ (L. Frank Baum)
2712. The Search for the Wicked Witch
28Little Lord Fauntleroy (Frances Hodgson Burnett) (pt. 1)
29Little Lord Fauntleroy (Frances Hodgson Burnett) (pt. 2)
30Little Lord Fauntleroy (Frances Hodgson Burnett) (pt. 3)
31Christmas with Grandma Elsie (Martha Finley) (pt. 1)
32Christmas with Grandma Elsie (Martha Finley) (pt. 2)
33Christmas with Grandma Elsie (Martha Finley) (pt. 3)
34Christmas with Grandma Elsie (Martha Finley) (pt. 4)
35Anne of Green Gables (Lucy Maud Montgomery) (pt. 1)
36Anne of Green Gables (Lucy Maud Montgomery) (pt. 2)
37Anne of Green Gables (Lucy Maud Montgomery) (pt. 3)
38Anne of Green Gables (Lucy Maud Montgomery) (pt. 4)
39Anne of Green Gables (Lucy Maud Montgomery) (pt. 5)
40The Christmas Angel (Abbie Farwell Brown)
41At the Back of the North Wind (George MacDonald) (pt. 1)
42At the Back of the North Wind (George MacDonald) (pt. 2)
43At the Back of the North Wind (George MacDonald) (pt. 3)
44At the Back of the North Wind (George MacDonald) (pt. 4)
45Black Beauty (Anna Sewell)
4623 A Strike for Liberty
4742 The Election
48The Christmas Child (Hesba Stretton)
49Granny’s Wonderful Chair (Frances Browne)
50The Romance of a Christmas Card (Kate Douglas Wiggin)
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