Fairytale Christmas
Classic Winter Fairy Tales of Magic, Kindness, Snowbound Journeys, and Christmas WonderBy Hans Christian Andersen, Andrew Lang, George MacDonald, J. M. Barrie, Brothers Grimm, Lewis Carroll, Oscar Wilde, Evelyn Sharp, Maurice Maeterlinck, L. Frank Baum, Georgette Leblanc, John Ruskin, Carl Sandburg, Marion St. John Webb, Mary Louisa Molesworth, Johnny Gruelle, R. Nisbet Bain, W. R. S. Ralston, Arthur Ransome
Length395h 12m
About this audiobook
Fairytale Christmas gathers nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century fairy tales, wonder tales, poems, and seasonal fantasies into a richly varied meditation on winter, generosity, childhood, transformation, and the uneasy border between enchantment and ordinary life. Its range extends from folkloric quests and talking creatures to literary nonsense, moral fable, dream vision, and whimsical domestic fantasy. Amid snowy landscapes, humble acts of kindness, and encounters with magical visitors, the volume preserves both the darkness and consolation integral to the fairy-tale tradition. The contributors represent a remarkable international constellation of folklorists, children's writers, poets, dramatists, illustrators, and literary innovators. Their work connects continental oral traditions with the Victorian and Edwardian literary fairy tale, while also engaging the Scandinavian, Russian, Celtic, American, and British inheritances that reshaped folklore for modern readers. Collectively, these voices reveal Christmas not merely as a sentimental occasion but as a cultural threshold: a season in which social inequities, spiritual longings, family rituals, and imaginative freedom become newly visible. This volume is especially recommended for readers seeking a capacious introduction to the Christmas fairy tale and its many tonal possibilities. It offers students and general readers alike an illuminating opportunity to compare styles, motifs, and national traditions within one collection. Fairytale Christmas rewards close reading through the lively dialogue it creates between folklore and literary art, innocence and irony, festive abundance and winter's mystery.
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Rating★★★★ 4.2 (29)
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GenreChildren's Literature
Length395 hrs 12 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 9, 2022
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Little Lord Fauntleroy (Annotated)
2Complete Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen (pt. 1)
3Complete Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen (pt. 2)
4Complete Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen (pt. 3)
5Complete Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen (pt. 4)
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6Complete Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen (pt. 5)
7Complete Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen (pt. 6)
8Complete Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen (pt. 7)
9Complete Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen (pt. 8)
10Complete Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen (pt. 9)
11Complete Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen (pt. 10)
12Complete Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen (pt. 11)
13Complete Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen (pt. 12)
14Complete Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen (pt. 13)
15Complete Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen (pt. 14)
16Complete Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen (pt. 15)
17Complete Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen (pt. 16)
18Complete Fairytales of Brothers Grimm
1915 Hansel and Grethel
2029 The Devil With the Three Golden Hairs
2147 The Juniper-Tree
2260 The Two Brothers
2376 The Pink
2492 The King of the Golden Mountain
25107 The Two Travellers
26122 Donkey Cabbages
27138 Knoist and his Three Sons
28171 The Willow-Wren
29192 The Master-Thief
30Complete Fairy Books of Andrew Lang
31The Blue Fairy Book (pt. 1)
32The Blue Fairy Book (pt. 2)
33The Blue Fairy Book (pt. 3)
34The Blue Fairy Book (pt. 4)
35The Blue Fairy Book (pt. 5)
36The Blue Fairy Book (pt. 6)
37The Red Fairy Book (pt. 1)
38The Red Fairy Book (pt. 2)
39The Red Fairy Book (pt. 3)
40The Red Fairy Book (pt. 4)
41The Red Fairy Book (pt. 5)
42The Red Fairy Book (pt. 6)
43The Green Fairy Book (pt. 1)
44The Green Fairy Book (pt. 2)
45The Green Fairy Book (pt. 3)
46The Green Fairy Book (pt. 4)
47The Green Fairy Book (pt. 5)
48The Yellow Fairy Book (pt. 1)
49The Yellow Fairy Book (pt. 2)
50The Yellow Fairy Book (pt. 3)
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