Down the Snow Stairs (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. From Good-Night to Good-Morning (Children's Christmas Tale)By Alice Corkran
Length4h 29m
About this audiobook
Down the Snow Stairs; or, From Good-night to Good-morning is a delicate late-Victorian fantasy for children, framed as a passage from bedtime into an enchanted wintry realm. Corkran mingles domestic realism with fairy-tale transformation: snow becomes architecture, sleep becomes travel, and moral discovery is woven into wonder rather than delivered as blunt instruction. Its style is lyrical, pictorial, and episodic, belonging to the same imaginative nursery tradition that prized dream-journeys, talking figures, and symbolic landscapes, while retaining a distinctly Victorian concern with kindness, courage, and self-command. Alice Corkran was a prolific nineteenth-century writer for the young, associated with the expanding culture of illustrated children's books and periodicals. Her work reflects the era's belief that children's literature could delight the senses while shaping ethical feeling. Corkran's sensitivity to childhood perception—its fears, curiosities, and sudden raptures—helps explain the book's gentle movement between the familiar household and the marvelous world beyond it. This book is warmly recommended to readers interested in classic children's fantasy, Victorian literary culture, and the history of imaginative education. It rewards both young readers and scholars with its graceful symbolism and atmospheric charm.
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.
- Interactive footnotes clarify unusual references, historical allusions, and archaic phrases for an effortless, more informed read.
Audiobook details
GenreChildren's Literature
Length4 hrs 29 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateNov 20, 2020
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Nutcracker and the Mouse King (Annotated)
10Chapter IX. Love Speaks.
2Chapter I. Christmas Eve.
11Chapter X. In The Wood.
3Chapter II. Kitty and Johnnie.
12Chapter XI. Kitty Dances with Strange Partners.
4Chapter III. Down the Snow Stairs.
13Chapter XII. “Eat or Be Eaten.”
5Chapter IV. Naughty Children Land.
14Chapter XIII. Play-ground, and After.
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6Chapter V. “To Daddy Coax’s House.”
15Chapter XIV. “I and Myself.”
7Chapter VI. Daddy Coax.
16Chapter XV. Was It Johnnie’s Face?
8Chapter VII. On the Other Side of the Stream.
17Chapter XVI. At the Gate.
9Chapter VIII. Pictures in the Fog.
18Memorable Quotes
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