Christmas Legends
Classic Tales, Poems, and Fables of Charity, Wonder, Faith, and Holiday RenewalBy Selma Lagerlof, Robert Louis Stevenson, Leo Tolstoy, Henry Van Dyke, Cyril William Winterbotham, Steven Arnold King, Eugene Field, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, George Harley McKnight, Eleanor L. Skinner
Length13h 5m
About this audiobook
Christmas Legends gathers fiction, devotional tale, folklore-inflected narrative, and poetic reflection around the season's durable imaginative power. Across its varied selections, Christmas appears not merely as a holiday but as a literary occasion for charity, wonder, memory, moral testing, and encounters between the earthly and the sacred. Stories of humble visitors, altered hearts, winter landscapes, and miraculous reversals stand beside more meditative and lyrical pieces, creating a capacious portrait of the legends that have shaped modern Christmas reading. The volume brings together writers associated with major nineteenth- and early twentieth-century traditions: Scandinavian legend and spiritual realism, Russian moral fiction, British romance and adventure, American poetry, children's literature, and popular holiday writing. Selma Lagerlöf, Robert Louis Stevenson, Leo Tolstoy, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Eugene Field, Henry Van Dyke, and their fellow contributors represent distinct national and formal inheritances. Their collective presence illuminates how Christian symbolism, local folklore, Victorian sentiment, and reformist ethical concerns converged in Christmas literature. Recommended for students, general readers, and seasonal bibliophiles, Christmas Legends offers an unusually rich opportunity to compare voices and traditions within one compact volume. Its breadth invites readers to trace recurring images of generosity and redemption while appreciating the different tonal registers—grave, playful, nostalgic, and visionary—through which each work renews the holiday's cultural meaning.
Audiobook details
GenreGeneral Fiction, Christian & Inspirational
Length13 hrs 5 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateNov 28, 2018
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Greatest Christmas Novels in One Volume (Illustrated)
2Preface
3"The Gracious Time"
4The Adoration of the Shepherds St. Luke, II, 1-16
5The Child Born at Bethlehem (Horace Elisha Scudder)
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6As Joseph was A-Walking
7The Peaceful Night (John Milton)
8The Christmas Silence (Margaret Deland)
9Neighbors of the Christ Night (Nora Archibald Smith)
10Christmas Carol From the Neapolitan
11A Christmas Hymn (Richard Watson Gilder)
12The Song of a Shepherd—Boy at Bethlehem (Josephine Preston Peabody)
13The First Christmas Roses Adapted From an Old Legend
14The Little Gray Lamb (Archibald Beresford Sullivan)
15The Holy Night (Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
16The Star Bearer (Edmund Clarence Stedman)
17The Visit Of The Wise Men St. Matthew, II, 1-12
18The Three Kings (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
19The Three Holy Kings Adapted from the Golden Legend, and Other Sources
20The Three Kings of Cologne (Eugene Field)
21Babouscka (Adelaide Skeel)
22The Flight Into Egypt (Selma Lagerlöf)
23The Haughty Aspen (Nora Archibald Smith)
24The Little Mud-Sparrows (Elizabeth Stuart Phelps)
25The Children of Wind and the Clan of Peace (Fiona Macleod)
26The Child Jesus in the Garden
27The Mystic Thorn Adapted from Traditional Sources
28The Blooming of the White Thorn (Edith Matilda Thomas)
29Legend of St. Christopher Adapted from the Golden Legend
30St. Christopher of the Gael (Fiona Macleod)
31The Cross of the Dumb (Fiona Macleod)
32The Christmas Song of Caedmon (H.E.G. Pardee)
33Good King Wenceslas (John Mason Neale)
34The Christmas at Greccio: A Story of St. Francis (Sophie Jewett)
35The Sin of the Prince Bishop (William Canton)
36Earl Sigurd's Christmas Eve (Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen)
37A Christmas Legend (Florence Scannell)
38The Legend of the Christmas Rose (Selma Lagerlöf)
39Félix (Evaleen Stein)
40The Sabot of Little Wolff (François Coppée)
41The Little Friend (Abbie Farwell Brown)
42Where Love Is, God Is (Leo Tolstoy)
43Babouscka (Russian Legend)
44The Shepherds and the Angels (Bible)
45The Three Kings of Cologne (English Chronicle)
46The Wolf Tower (A Legend)
47The Three Kings (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
48The Holly and the Ivy
49Adam lay ybounden
50A Christmas Prayer (Cyril Winterbotham)
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