Of Gratitude & Happiness - The Thanksgiving Storybook
Classic Thanksgiving Tales of Family, Charity, Folklore, and the Joy of Giving ThanksBy Harriet Beecher Stowe, George Eliot, O. Henry, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Louisa May Alcott, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Eleanor H. Porter, Susan Coolidge, Andrew Lang, Eugene Field, Alfred Gatty, Edward Everett Hale, Alfred Henry Lewis, Nora Perry, Mary Jane Holmes, Ida Hamilton Munsell, Amy Ella Blanchard, Cornelius Mathews, Horatio Alger, Sarah Orne Jewett, C. A. Stephens, Rose Terry Cooke, Isabel Gordon Curtis, Olive Thorne Miller, H. R. Schoolcraft, Hezekiah Butterworth, Pauline Shackleford Colyar, Edna Payson Brett, Annie Hamilton Donnell, Alice Wheildon, Fannie Wilder Brown
Length35h 52m
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Of Gratitude & Happiness—The Thanksgiving Storybook gathers a capacious nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century archive of holiday feeling, domestic ritual, moral reflection, and communal belonging. Its stories range from sentimental realism and children's literature to regional sketch, comic anecdote, romance, and instructive tale, tracing Thanksgiving's transformation from household observance into a national imaginative tradition. Scenes of harvest, reunion, generosity, hardship, and reconciliation give the volume both seasonal warmth and notable social breadth. The contributors include major American and British writers alongside influential authors of juvenile fiction, local-color writing, popular magazines, and moral narratives. Together, these voices evoke literary cultures shaped by domestic fiction, reformist thought, regionalism, post-Civil War popular literature, and the expanding market for reading among children and families. Their varied treatments of charity, class, kinship, memory, and responsibility reveal Thanksgiving not as a fixed custom but as a contested and adaptable cultural ideal. This anthology is especially rewarding for readers seeking many historical perspectives within a single, inviting volume. It offers students and general readers an accessible entry into changing traditions of American domestic life and popular storytelling, while its diverse styles encourage comparison across genre, region, and generation. Read collectively, these works create a rich dialogue about gratitude's pleasures, obligations, and enduring imaginative power.
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GenreGeneral Fiction
Length35 hrs 52 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateNov 5, 2018
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Parable Collection: Seven Books Full of Life Lessons
2An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving (Louisa May Alcott)
3CHAPTER I. GENEALOGY AND PARENTAGE
4CHAPTER II. CHILDHOOD
5CHAPTER III. FRUITLANDS
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6CHAPTER IV. THE SENTIMENTAL PERIOD
7CHAPTER V. AUTHORSHIP
8CHAPTER VI. THE YEAR OF GOOD LUCK
9CHAPTER VII. HOSPITAL SKETCHES
10CHAPTER VIII. EUROPE AND LITTLE WOMEN
11CHAPTER IX. EUROPE
12CHAPTER X. FAMILY CHANGES
13CHAPTER XI. LAST YEARS
14CHAPTER XII. CONCLUSION
15Aunt Susanna's Thanksgiving Dinner (Lucy Maud Montgomery)
16The Genesis of the Doughnut Club (Lucy Maud Montgomery)
17Two Thanksgiving Day Gentlemen (O. Henry)
18The Purple Dress (O. Henry)
19An English Dinner of Thanksgiving (George Eliot)
20Ezra's Thanksgivin' Out West (Eugene Field)
21Three Thanksgivings (Charlotte Perkins Gilman)
22John Inglefield's Thanksgiving (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
23Helen's Thanksgiving (Susan Coolidge)
24Thanksgiving at the Polls (Edward Everett Hale)
25I
26II
27III
28IV
29V
30VI
31VII
32Millionaire Mike's Thanksgiving (Eleanor H. Porter)
33The Thanksgiving of the Wazir (Andrew Lang)
34The Master of the Harvest (Mrs. Alfred Gatty)
35A Wolfville Thanksgiving (Alfred Henry Lewis)
36How We Kept Thanksgiving at Oldtown (Harriet Beecher Stowe)
37The Thanksgiving Guest (Nora Perry)
38CHAPTER I
39CHAPTER II
40The Thanksgiving Party and its Consequences (Mary Jane Holmes)
41CHAPTER I. NIGHT BEFORE THANKSGIVING
42CHAPTER II. THANKSGIVING DAY
43CHAPTER III. ADA HARCOURT
44CHAPTER IV. LUCY
45CHAPTER V. UNCLE ISRAEL
46CHAPTER VI. EXPLANATION
47CHAPTER VII. A MANEUVER
48CHAPTER VIII. COUSIN BERINTHA AND LUCY'S PARTY
49CHAPTER IX. A WEDDING AT ST. LUKE'S
50CHAPTER X. A SURPRISE
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