Christmas Candles (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. Entertaining Holiday Plays for Boys and GirlsBy Elsie Hobart Carter
Length8h 18m
About this audiobook
Christmas Candles is a finely wrought seasonal work that uses the image of candlelight as both narrative device and spiritual emblem. Within the tradition of Christmas literature, it joins domestic sentiment, moral reflection, and gentle dramatic movement, emphasizing generosity, remembrance, and inward illumination. Its style is lucid, reverent, and intimate, shaped for readers attuned to the ethical and emotional meanings of the holiday rather than to spectacle alone. Elsie Hobart Carter wrote in a period when Christmas books often served as vehicles for moral education, family reading, and devotional reflection. Her work suggests an author attentive to the quiet transformations of ordinary life: the child's awakening conscience, the household ritual, the small act of kindness that acquires symbolic force. Such concerns likely informed her choice of a form in which simplicity becomes a means of seriousness. This book is recommended to readers who value classic Christmas writing, especially works that combine warmth with moral clarity. It will appeal to admirers of reflective holiday literature, educators seeking meaningful seasonal texts, and anyone interested in how modest narratives can preserve the deeper imaginative and ethical radiance of Christmas.
This enriched edition has been carefully crafted to add value to your reading experience.
- Hand‐picked Memorable Quotes shine a spotlight on moments of literary brilliance.
Audiobook details
GenreLiterary Classics
Length8 hrs 18 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateNov 20, 2020
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
9The Spell of Christmas
2The Christ-Candle
10The Babushka
3Toinette and the Elves
11A Canvas Christmas
4Tom’s Plan
12Minty-Malviny’s Santa Claus
5Their Christmas Party
13The Hundred
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6The Christmas Brownie
14General Notes
7A Puritan Christmas
15Suggestions for Carols
8The Christmas Monks
16Memorable Quotes
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