
Jingle All The Way: 180+ Christmas Classics in One Volume (Illustrated Edition)
Illustrated Treasury of 180+ Classic Yuletide Tales, Poems, Carols, and LegendsBy Selma Lagerlöf, Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Robert Louis Stevenson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, George MacDonald, William Wordsworth, Carolyn Wells, Sophie May, Louisa May Alcott, Walter Scott, Anthony Trollope, Rudyard Kipling, Beatrix Potter, Emily Dickinson, Lucas Malet, O. Henry, Alice Hale Burnett, Walter Crane, Amy Ella Blanchard, Amanda M. Douglas, Ernest Ingersoll, L. Frank Baum, J. M. Barrie, Eleanor H. Porter, Annie F. Johnston, Jacob A. Riis, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Hans Christian Andersen, William Butler Yeats, Henry van Dyke, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Juliana Horatia Ewing, Brothers Grimm, Clement Moore, Susan Anne Livingston, Ridley SedgwickLength335h 7m
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Jingle All The Way gathers more than 180 Christmas classics into an illustrated panorama of the holiday imagination. Its contents range across devotional verse, fairy tale, domestic realism, comic sketch, ghostly fantasy, children's literature, and moral fable, revealing Christmas as both sacred observance and richly adaptable cultural ritual. Familiar scenes of winter travel, generosity, feasting, wonder, and reconciliation stand beside less expected tales of poverty, social responsibility, folklore, and the uncanny, giving the volume unusual tonal and historical breadth. The contributors constitute an international nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century canon, bringing together British, American, Scandinavian, Russian, German, Irish, and Canadian traditions. Poets, novelists, social reformers, folklorists, and major writers for young readers converge here, linking Victorian Christmas culture to Romantic nature writing, European fairy-tale traditions, Realist social conscience, and the expanding market for illustrated juvenile books. Their varied voices illuminate how seasonal literature helped shape ideals of family, charity, childhood, national memory, and imaginative escape. This capacious anthology is recommended for readers seeking both festive pleasure and a serious encounter with the literary history of Christmas. Its multiplicity of forms and perspectives invites comparison across languages, genres, and generations, while the illustrations deepen its appeal as a historical reading experience. It offers students, scholars, and general readers a rewarding single-volume archive of holiday storytelling and its enduring cultural dialogue.
Audiobook details
GenreGeneral Fiction
Length335 hrs 7 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 18, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Of Ghostes and Spirites, Walking by Night (Annotated)
2Jingle All The Way: 180+ Christmas Classics in One Volume (Illustrated Edition)
3Novels
4Life and Adventures of Santa Claus (L. Frank Baum)
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62. The Child of the Forest
73. The Adoption
84. Claus
95. The Master Woodsman
106. Claus Discovers Humanity
117. Claus Leaves the Forest
121. The Laughing Valley
132. How Claus Made the First Toy
143. How the Ryls Colored the Toys
154. How Little Mayrie Became Frightened
165. How Bessie Blithesome Came to the Laughing Valley
176. The Wickedness of the Awgwas
187. The Great Battle Between Good and Evil
198. The First Journey with the Reindeer
209. "Santa Claus!"
2110. Christmas Eve
2211. How the First Stockings Were Hung by the Chimneys
2312. The First Christmas Tree
241. The Mantle of Immortality
252. When the World Grew Old
263. The Deputies of Santa Claus
27Christmas-Tree Land (Mary Louisa Molesworth)
28CHAPTER I. THE WHITE CASTLE.
29CHAPTER II. IN THE FIR-WOODS.
30CHAPTER III. THE MYSTERIOUS COTTAGE.
31CHAPTER IV. FAIRY HOUSEKEEPING.
32CHAPTER V. THE STORY OF A KING'S DAUGHTER.
33CHAPTER VI. THE STORY OF A KING'S DAUGHTER
34CHAPTER VII. A WINDING STAIR AND A SCAMPER.
35CHAPTER VIII. THE SQUIRREL FAMILY.
36CHAPTER IX. A COMMITTEE OF BIRDS.
37CHAPTER X. A SAIL IN THE AIR.
38CHAPTER XI. THE EAGLES' EYRIE.
39CHAPTER XII. A VISION OF CHRISTMAS TREES.
40I HOW JOHN HENRY OVERHOLT SAT ON PANDORA'S BOX
41II HOW A MAN AND A BOY FOUNDED THE LITTLE CITY OF HOPE
42III HOW THEY MADE BRICKS WITHOUT STRAW
43IV HOW THERE WAS A FAMINE IN THE CITY
44V HOW THE CITY WAS BESIEGED AND THE LID OF PANDORA'S BOX CAME OFF
45VI HOW A SMALL BOY DID A BIG THING AND NAILED DOWN THE LID OF THE BOX
46VII HOW A LITTLE WOMAN DID A GREAT DEED TO SAVE THE CITY
47VIII HOW THE WHEELS WENT ROUND AT LAST
48IX HOW THE KING OF HEARTS MADE A FEAST IN THE CITY OF HOPE
49Peter Pan and Wendy (J. M. Barrie)
50ILLUSTRATIONS