HOLIDAY Ultimate Collection: 400+ Christmas Novels, Stories, Poems, Carols & Legends (Illustrated Edition)
Illustrated Classics of Wonder, Charity and CheerBy Louis Stevenson, Louisa May Alcott, O. Henry, Mark Twain, Beatrix Potter, Charles Dickens, William Shakespeare, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Emily Dickinson, Rudyard Kipling, Hans Christian Andersen, Selma Lagerlöf, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Martin Luther, Walter Scott, J. M. Barrie, Anthony Trollope, Brothers Grimm, L. Frank Baum, Lucy Maud Montgomery, George Macdonald, Leo Tolstoy, Henry Van Dyke, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Clement Moore, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, William Wordsworth, Alfred Lord Tennyson, William Butler Yeats, Eleanor H. Porter, Jacob A. Riis, Susan Anne Livingston, Ridley Sedgwick, Sophie May, Lucas Malet, Juliana Horatia Ewing, Alice Hale Burnett, Ernest Ingersoll, Annie F. Johnston, Amanda M. Douglas, Amy Ella Blanchard, Carolyn Wells, Walter Crane, Thomas Nelson Page, Florence L. Barclay, A. S. Boyd, Edward A. Rand, Max Brand, William John Locke, Nora A. Smith
Length442h 1m
About this audiobook
HOLIDAY Ultimate Collection gathers more than four hundred Christmas novels, tales, poems, carols, and legends into a capacious archive of Anglophone and European holiday writing. Its range extends from domestic realism and moral fable to fairy tale, gothic fantasy, devotional verse, children's literature, and seasonal folklore. Canonical narratives of generosity, memory, poverty, wonder, and communal reconciliation stand beside lesser-known period pieces, while illustrations reinforce the volume's interest in Christmas as a visual as well as literary tradition. The collection convenes writers associated with Victorian literature, Romantic poetry, American regionalism, Scandinavian storytelling, Russian fiction, Reformation thought, and the enduring folk heritage preserved by collectors and fabulists. These diverse voices illuminate how Christmas became a modern cultural language: shaped by Christian observance, family ritual, social conscience, commercial print culture, and inherited legends. The juxtaposition of celebrated authors with popular children's writers and magazine contributors is especially valuable, revealing the broad networks through which seasonal ideals circulated. Recommended for students, general readers, and collectors of holiday literature, this anthology offers an unusually rich opportunity to compare genres, national traditions, and changing conceptions of festivity. Read selectively or immersively, it rewards attention to the dialogue between reverence and play, nostalgia and reform, intimate hearth and public charity across its many texts.
Audiobook details
Rating★★★★ 4.4 (139)
Includes Amazon, Goodreads
GenreGeneral Fiction
Length442 hrs 1 min
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 3, 2018
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Greatest Christmas Stories & Poems in One Volume (Illustrated)
2Preface
3Introduction
4The Origin and Associations of Christmas
5The Earlier Celebrations of the Festival
Show all chaptersShow less
6Novels
7Life and Adventures of Santa Claus (L. Frank Baum)
811. How the First Stockings Were Hung by the Chimneys
9Christmas-Tree Land (Mary Louisa Molesworth)
10CHAPTER I. THE WHITE CASTLE.
11CHAPTER II. IN THE FIR-WOODS.
12CHAPTER III. THE MYSTERIOUS COTTAGE.
13CHAPTER IV. FAIRY HOUSEKEEPING.
14CHAPTER VI. THE STORY OF A KING'S DAUGHTER
15CHAPTER VIII. THE SQUIRREL FAMILY.
16CHAPTER IX. A COMMITTEE OF BIRDS.
17CHAPTER X. A SAIL IN THE AIR.
18CHAPTER XI. THE EAGLES' EYRIE.
19The Little City of Hope (F. Marion Crawford) (pt. 1)
20The Little City of Hope (F. Marion Crawford) (pt. 2)
21Peter Pan and Wendy (J. M. Barrie)
22CHAPTER II
23CHAPTER III
24CHAPTER IV
25CHAPTER V
26CHAPTER VI
27CHAPTER VII
28CHAPTER VIII
29CHAPTER IX
30CHAPTER X
31CHAPTER XI
32CHAPTER XII
33CHAPTER XIII
34CHAPTER XIV
35CHAPTER XV
36CHAPTER XVI
37CHAPTER XVII
38Little Women (Louisa May Alcott)
39CHAPTER I. PLAYING PILGRIMS.
40CHAPTER II. A MERRY CHRISTMAS.
41CHAPTER III. THE LAURENCE BOY.
42CHAPTER IV. BURDEN.
43CHAPTER V. BEING NEIGHBORLY.
44CHAPTER VIII. JO MEETS APOLLYON.
45CHAPTER IX. MEG GOES TO VANITY FAIR.
46CHAPTER X. THE P. C. AND P. O.
47CHAPTER XI. EXPERIMENT.
48CHAPTER XII. CAMP LAURENCE.
49CHAPTER XIII. CASTLES IN THE AIR.
50CHAPTER XIV. SECRETS.
WhistlerAnn Patchett10h 45m4.6 (4.6K)$29 · $0.00
Demon CopperheadBarbara Kingsolver21h 3m4.5 (949.4K)$46 · $0.00
To Kill a MockingbirdHarper Lee12h 18m4.5 (7.4M)$29 · $0.00
Remarkably Bright CreaturesShelby Van Pelt11h 17m4.4 (1.7M)$29 · $0.00
This Side of Paradise - The Original 1920 Edition (Annotated)F. Scott Fitzgerald11h 30m4.6 (1.6K)$2 · $0.00
War LordBernard Cornwell13h 21m4.6 (33.1K)$33 · $0.00
The Great Gatsby: Original 1925 Edition (An F. Scott Fitzgerald Classic NovelFrancis Scott Fitzgerald4h 45m4.6 (9.3K)$18 · $0.00
Something Like LoveBeverly Jenkins10h 21m4.6 (2.7K)$29 · $0.00
Black History CollectionFrederick Douglass, Harriet Ann Jacobs, Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois27h 9m4.6 (2.6K)$18 · $0.00
The Old Man and the Sea (Annotated)Ernest Hemingway4h 27m4.6 (1.4K)$2 · $0.00
White HotIlona Andrews13h 18m4.5 (136.9K)$5 · $0.00
The Ghost by the Billabong (The Matilda Saga, #5)Jackie French14h 58m4.6 (773)$33 · $0.00
Cast in BloodMichelle Sagara16h 35m4.6 (607)$33 · $0.00
The Captain Blood Trilogy (Annotated)Rafael Sabatini29h 20m4.6 (1K)$3 · $0.00
Ship of the Line (Annotated)Cecil Louis Troughton Smith11h 13m4.6 (1K)$2 · $0.00
The George Orwell CollectionGeorge Orwell24h 46m4.5 (14.4K)$12 · $0.00
ShivajiRanjit Desai25h 13m4.6 (3.1K)$24 · $0.00
Time RegainedMarcel Proust15h 38m4.5 (9.2K)$2 · $0.00
Driving ForceElle James4h 58m4.6 (407)$20 · $0.00
When God Calls the HeartBrian Bird, Michelle Cox3h 24m4.6 (439)$10 · $0.00
You may also like
Raggedy Ann StoriesJohnny Gruelle2h 17m4.2 (5.6K)$16 · $0.00
The Magic Faraway TreeEnid Blyton6h 15m4.4 (58K)$1 · $0.00
The Patchwork Girl of OzL. Frank Baum6h 7m4.1 (13.5K)$17
The Story of Doctor DolittleHugh Lofting2h 51m4.0 (67.1K)$1 · $0.00
The Most Wonderful Christmas Tales Of All TimeBjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Selma Lagerlöf, Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Martin Luther, Robert Louis Stevenson, William Shakespeare, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Max Brand, William Wordsworth, Carolyn Wells, Charles Mackay, John Addington Symonds, Sophie May, Louisa May Alcott, Henry Van Dyke, Arthur Conan Doyle, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Andrew Lang, Frances Ridley Havergal, Alphonse Daudet, William John Locke, Walter Scott, Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, John Leighton, Booth Tarkington, Ralph Henry Barbour, Benito Pérez Galdós, Ruth McEnery Stuart, Alice Duer Miller, Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, Armando Palacio Valdés, William Morris, Anthony Trollope, Marcel Prévost, Rudyard Kipling, Beatrix Potter, Robert Herrick, Mary Hartwell Catherwood, Emily Dickinson, Bret Harte, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Meredith Nicholson, Lucas Malet, Ellis Parker Butler, Washington Irving, Isaac Watts, James Russell Lowell, Willa Cather, Nathaniel Hawthorne, James Whitcomb Riley, Thomas Nelson Page, O. Henry, Phillips Brooks, Saki, Cyrus Townsend Brady, William Makepeace Thackeray, Mary Stewart Cutting, Sarah Orne Jewett, François Coppée, Oliver Bell Bunce, Susan Coolidge, Samuel McChord Crothers, Maud Lindsay, Alice Hale Burnett, Walter Crane, André Theuriet, Amy Ella Blanchard, Isabel Cecilia Williams, Evaleen Stein, Nell Speed, Amanda M. Douglas, Edgar Wallace, George Wither, Booker T. Washington, Olive Thorne Miller, Margaret Sidney, William Douglas O'Connor, Vernon Lee, Anne Hollingsworth Wharton, Henry Vaughan, Eliza Cook, Kate Upson Clark, Ben Jonson, Ernest Ingersoll, Frank Samuel Child, Willis Boyd Allen, Georgianna M. Bishop, Edward Thring, F. L. Stealey, James Selwin Tait, Tudor Jenks, L. Frank Baum, C. N. Williamson, A. M. Williamson, J. M. Barrie, Eleanor H. Porter, Annie F. Johnston, Jacob A. Riis, S. Weir Mitchell, Elbridge S. Brooks, Edward A. Rand, W. H. H. Murray, Florence L. Barclay, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Harrison S. Morris, Robert E. Howard, Marjorie L. C. Pickthall, Sarah P. Doughty, Hans Christian Andersen, William Butler Yeats, Richard Watson Gilder, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anton Chekhov, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Mary Louisa Molesworth, Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Cecil Frances Alexander, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Margaret Deland, William Drummond, Robert Southwell, Reginald Heber, Alfred Lord Tennyson, George Macdonald, A. S. Boyd, Maxime Du Camp, Mary Austin, Juliana Horatia Ewing, Guy De Maupassant, Brothers Grimm, Clement Moore, Susan Anne Livingston, Ridley Sedgwick, Nora A. Smith, Phebe A. Curtiss, Nellie C. King, Lucy Wheelock, Aunt Hede, Frederick E. Dewhurst, Jay T. Stocking, Anna Robinson, Florence M. Kingsley, M. A. L. Lane, Elizabeth Harkison, Raymond Mcalden, F. E. Mann, Winifred M. Kirkland, Katherine Pyle, Grace Margaret Gallaher, Elia W. Peattie, F. Arnstein, James Weber Linn, Antonio Maré, Pedro A. De Alarcón, Jules Simon, Marion Clifford, E. E. Hale, Georg Schuster, Matilda Betham Edwards, Angelo J. Lewis, William Francis Dawson, Christopher North, Alfred Domett, Dinah Maria Mulock, James S. Park, Edmund Hamilton Sears, Edmund Bolton, C.s. Stone, Harriet F. Blodgett, John G. Whittier, Christian Burke, Emily Huntington Miller, Cyril Winterbotham, Enoch Arnold Bennett, John Punnett Peters, Laura Elizabeth Richards508h 12m4.2 (18)$1.99 · $0.00
The Magic of Christmas: 550+ Christmas Novels, Stories & LegendsLouisa May Alcott, Charles Dickens, O. Henry, Mark Twain, Beatrix Potter, William Shakespeare, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Emily Dickinson, Robert Louis Stevenson, Rudyard Kipling, Hans Christian Andersen, Selma Lagerlöf, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Martin Luther, Walter Scott, J. M. Barrie, Anthony Trollope, Brothers Grimm, L. Frank Baum, Lucy Maud Montgomery, George Macdonald, Leo Tolstoy, Henry Van Dyke549h 53m4.2 (110)$1.99 · $0.00
The Greatest Christmas Novels in One Volume (Illustrated)J. M. Barrie, Charles Dickens, Johanna Spyri, Louisa May Alcott, L. Frank Baum, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Lucy Maud Montgomery, George MacDonald, Mary Louisa Molesworth, Martha Finley, Abbie Farwell Brown, Anna Sewell, Hesba Stretton, Frances Browne, Kate Douglas Wiggin, Kenneth Grahame105h 22m4.3 (22)$1.99 · $0.00
Gusta & GustoLea Sakran3h 32m$15
The Story Of A Nodding DonkeyLaura Lee Hope1h 58m3.7 (12)$2.30
The Big Book of Fairytales & Fantasy ClassicsHans Christian Andersen, Brothers Grimm, Andrew Lang, J. M. Barrie, Lewis Carroll, George MacDonald, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Oscar Wilde, Evelyn Sharp, Maurice Maeterlinck, Georgette Leblanc, John Ruskin, Carl Sandburg, Marion St. John Webb, Mary Louisa Molesworth, Johnny Gruelle, R. Nisbet Bain, W. R. S. Ralston, Arthur Ransome395h 17m4.4 (29)$1.99 · $0.00
The Greatest Christmas Novels Collection (Illustrated Edition)J. M. Barrie, Charles Dickens, Johanna Spyri, Louisa May Alcott, L. Frank Baum, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Lucy Maud Montgomery, George MacDonald, Mary Louisa Molesworth, Martha Finley, Abbie Farwell Brown, Anna Sewell, Hesba Stretton, Frances Browne, Kate Douglas Wiggin, Kenneth Grahame105h 18m4.4 (32)$1.99 · $0.00
The Mountain Chant (Complete Edition)Washington Matthews4h 45m4.2 (20)$1.99 · $0.00
Rootabaga PigeonsCarl Sandburg2h 36m4.5 (22)$3
The African Elephants' Great AdventureRafat Allam2m$7 · $0.00
Maggie & Abby's Neverending Pillow FortWill Taylor6h 31m4.3 (178)$24 · $0.00
Peter Pan Adventures – Complete 7 Book Collection (Illustrated)J. M. Barrie, Daniel O'Connor, Oliver Herford19h 43m4.5 (149)$1.99 · $0.00
Stick Dog Comes to TownTom Watson2h 3m4.7 (192)$16 · $0.00
Fairies I Have MetRodolph Mrs. Stawell2h 3m$2 · $0.00
Clangers - The HootOliver Postgate9m$7 · $0.00
The Story of the Mince PieJosephine Scribner Gates2h 54m$1.99 · $0.00