Christmas Collection: 400+ Novels, Stories, Poems, Carols & Legends (Illustrated)
An Illustrated Treasury of Yuletide Tales, Carols, Poems, Legends and Ghost StoriesBy Selma Lagerlöf, Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Martin Luther, William Shakespeare, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Max Brand, William Wordsworth, Carolyn Wells, Sophie May, Louisa May Alcott, Henry Van Dyke, William John Locke, Walter Scott, Anthony Trollope, Rudyard Kipling, Beatrix Potter, Emily Dickinson, Lucas Malet, Thomas Nelson Page, O. Henry, Alice Hale Burnett, Walter Crane, Amy Ella Blanchard, Amanda M. Douglas, Ernest Ingersoll, L. Frank Baum, J. M. Barrie, Eleanor H. Porter, Annie F. Johnston, Jacob A. Riis, Edward A. Rand, Florence L. Barclay, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Hans Christian Andersen, William Butler Yeats, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Alfred Lord Tennyson, George Macdonald, A. S. Boyd, Juliana Horatia Ewing, Brothers Grimm, Clement Moore, Susan Anne Livingston, Ridley Sedgwick, Nora A. Smith, Louis Stevenson
Length441h 55m
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Christmas Collection: 400+ Novels, Stories, Poems, Carols & Legends (Illustrated) assembles a capacious literary archive of Christmas in its sacred, domestic, folkloric, comic, and philanthropic dimensions. Ranging from seasonal novels and short fiction to lyric poetry, carols, fairy tales, legends, and illustrated children's literature, it places Victorian sentiment beside European wonder-tale traditions, American moral realism, and darker Gothic or supernatural visions. Familiar scenes of hearth, charity, winter travel, and childhood encounter devotional meditations and enduring narratives of transformation, making the volume a record of how Christmas has been repeatedly imagined across genres. Its contributors form an unusually broad transnational constellation, including major British, American, Scandinavian, Russian, German, and Irish writers, alongside influential authors of juvenile literature and social commentary. Their collective presence traces the nineteenth- and early twentieth-century consolidation of Christmas as a literary and cultural season: shaped by Christian observance, Romantic nature writing, Victorian domesticity, folklore revival, social reform, and the expanding market for illustrated family reading. Canonical voices and popular storytellers alike illuminate the festival's tensions between poverty and abundance, solitude and fellowship, inheritance and modernity. This volume is especially rewarding for readers seeking a single, expansive entry into Christmas literature's many traditions. Its abundance invites comparison across forms, nations, and audiences, while its illustrations and varied modes of storytelling enrich both scholarly study and seasonal reading. Readers will find not one Christmas, but a lively dialogue among many cultural imaginations.
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GenreGeneral Fiction
Length441 hrs 55 mins
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Publish dateNov 21, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Essential Works of Thomas More (Annotated)
2Christmas Collection: 400+ Novels, Stories, Poems, Carols & Legends (Illustrated)
3Preface
4Introduction
5The Origin and Associations of Christmas
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6The Earlier Celebrations of the Festival
7Novels
8Life and Adventures of Santa Claus (L. Frank Baum)
911. How the First Stockings Were Hung by the Chimneys
10Christmas-Tree Land (Mary Louisa Molesworth) (pt. 1)
11Christmas-Tree Land (Mary Louisa Molesworth) (pt. 2)
12Christmas-Tree Land (Mary Louisa Molesworth) (pt. 3)
13The Little City of Hope (F. Marion Crawford) (pt. 1)
14The Little City of Hope (F. Marion Crawford) (pt. 2)
15Peter Pan and Wendy (J. M. Barrie) (pt. 1)
16Peter Pan and Wendy (J. M. Barrie) (pt. 2)
17Peter Pan and Wendy (J. M. Barrie) (pt. 3)
18Little Women (Louisa May Alcott) (pt. 1)
19Little Women (Louisa May Alcott) (pt. 2)
20Little Women (Louisa May Alcott) (pt. 3)
21Little Women (Louisa May Alcott) (pt. 4)
22Little Women (Louisa May Alcott) (pt. 5)
23Little Women (Louisa May Alcott) (pt. 6)
24Little Women (Louisa May Alcott) (pt. 7)
25Little Women (Louisa May Alcott) (pt. 8)
26Little Women (Louisa May Alcott) (pt. 9)
27The Wonderful Wizard of OZ (L. Frank Baum)
2812. The Search for the Wicked Witch
29Little Lord Fauntleroy (Frances Hodgson Burnett) (pt. 1)
30Little Lord Fauntleroy (Frances Hodgson Burnett) (pt. 2)
31Little Lord Fauntleroy (Frances Hodgson Burnett) (pt. 3)
32Christmas with Grandma Elsie (Martha Finley) (pt. 1)
33Christmas with Grandma Elsie (Martha Finley) (pt. 2)
34Christmas with Grandma Elsie (Martha Finley) (pt. 3)
35Christmas with Grandma Elsie (Martha Finley) (pt. 4)
36Anne of Green Gables (Lucy Maud Montgomery) (pt. 1)
37Anne of Green Gables (Lucy Maud Montgomery) (pt. 2)
38Anne of Green Gables (Lucy Maud Montgomery) (pt. 3)
39Anne of Green Gables (Lucy Maud Montgomery) (pt. 4)
40Anne of Green Gables (Lucy Maud Montgomery) (pt. 5)
41The Christmas Angel (Abbie Farwell Brown)
42At the Back of the North Wind (George MacDonald) (pt. 1)
43At the Back of the North Wind (George MacDonald) (pt. 2)
44At the Back of the North Wind (George MacDonald) (pt. 3)
45At the Back of the North Wind (George MacDonald) (pt. 4)
46Black Beauty (Anna Sewell)
4723 A Strike for Liberty
4842 The Election
49The Christmas Child (Hesba Stretton)
50Granny’s Wonderful Chair (Frances Browne)
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