It's Christmas Again: 550+ Tales, Legends & Myths for Holiday Season
A Treasury of Victorian Tales, Yuletide Ghosts, Fairy Tales, and Global Holiday FolkloreBy Louisa 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 Dyke
Length550h 19m
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It's Christmas Again gathers more than 550 tales, legends, myths, poems, and seasonal reflections into a capacious literary archive of winter celebration. Moving from fairy tale and folklore to domestic realism, moral parable, devotional prose, and imaginative fantasy, the volume situates Christmas within overlapping traditions of charity, wonder, childhood, faith, and social critique. Familiar yuletide narratives stand beside enchanted journeys, biblical resonances, and regional legends, making the collection a rich record of how the holiday has been imagined across genres and nations. Its contributors represent an unusually broad constellation of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century writing, joined by foundational figures from earlier European traditions. British, American, Scandinavian, German, Russian, and Danish voices bring distinct cultural inheritances to the season, while writers associated with Romantic folklore, Victorian domestic fiction, realism, children's literature, religious reform, and the modern fairy tale expand its meanings. Collectively, these works reveal Christmas not as a fixed custom but as a literary meeting ground where popular tradition, ethical feeling, national memory, and fantasy converge. This volume is recommended for readers seeking both festive pleasure and serious comparative insight. Its abundance invites browsing as well as sustained study, offering educators, students, and general readers a remarkable opportunity to trace recurring motifs across radically different styles. Read together, these texts create a lively dialogue about generosity, loss, belief, family, and the enduring imaginative power of winter.
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Rating★★★★ 4.3 (12)
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GenreGeneral Fiction
Length550 hrs 19 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateNov 26, 2020
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Christmas With Presidents (Annotated)
2Preface
3Introduction
4The Origin and Associations of Christmas
5The Earlier Celebrations of the Festival
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6Novels
7Life and Adventures of Santa Claus (L. Frank Baum)
8YOUTH
91. Burzee
102. The Child of the Forest
113. The Adoption
124. Claus
135. The Master Woodsman
146. Claus Discovers Humanity
157. Claus Leaves the Forest
16MANHOOD
171. The Laughing Valley
182. How Claus Made the First Toy
193. How the Ryls Colored the Toys
204. How Little Mayrie Became Frightened
215. How Bessie Blithesome Came to the Laughing Valley
226. The Wickedness of the Awgwas
237. The Great Battle Between Good and Evil
248. The First Journey with the Reindeer
259. "Santa Claus!"
2610. Christmas Eve
2711. How the First Stockings Were Hung by the Chimneys
2812. The First Christmas Tree
29OLD AGE
301. The Mantle of Immortality
312. When the World Grew Old
323. The Deputies of Santa Claus
33Christmas-Tree Land (Mary Louisa Molesworth)
34CHAPTER I. THE WHITE CASTLE.
35CHAPTER II. IN THE FIR-WOODS.
36CHAPTER III. THE MYSTERIOUS COTTAGE.
37CHAPTER IV. FAIRY HOUSEKEEPING.
38CHAPTER V. THE STORY OF A KING'S DAUGHTER.
39CHAPTER VI. THE STORY OF A KING'S DAUGHTER
40CHAPTER VII. A WINDING STAIR AND A SCAMPER.
41CHAPTER VIII. THE SQUIRREL FAMILY.
42CHAPTER IX. A COMMITTEE OF BIRDS.
43CHAPTER X. A SAIL IN THE AIR.
44CHAPTER XI. THE EAGLES' EYRIE.
45CHAPTER XII. A VISION OF CHRISTMAS TREES.
46The Little City of Hope (F. Marion Crawford)
47I HOW JOHN HENRY OVERHOLT SAT ON PANDORA'S BOX
48II HOW A MAN AND A BOY FOUNDED THE LITTLE CITY OF HOPE
49III HOW THEY MADE BRICKS WITHOUT STRAW
50IV HOW THERE WAS A FAMINE IN THE CITY
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