Of Love, Life & Happiness: A Thanksgiving Collection
Classic Tales of Gratitude, Kindness, Family, and CommunityBy O. Henry, George Eliot, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Harriet Beecher Stowe, 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, Mary Jane Holmes, Sarah Orne Jewett, Ida Hamilton Munsell
Length19h 26m
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Of Love, Life & Happiness: A Thanksgiving Collection gathers an expansive array of short fiction, sketches, moral tales, and domestic narratives shaped by gratitude, kinship, charity, and the fragile consolations of everyday life. Moving between sentimental realism, regional color, children's literature, romance, Gothic-inflected reflection, and comic anecdote, the volume situates Thanksgiving not merely as a holiday but as a literary occasion for reckoning with community and obligation. Its range—from intimate household scenes to tales of social conscience and unexpected generosity—reveals the enduring versatility of seasonal writing. The contributors represent a remarkable cross-section of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Anglo-American letters. Canonical novelists stand beside influential writers of juvenile fiction, local-color prose, popular magazine literature, folklore, and reform-minded domestic narrative. Together, these voices evoke literary cultures shaped by women's authorship, abolitionist and humanitarian concerns, New England regionalism, Victorian moral instruction, and the rise of the American short story. Their differing social settings and tonal registers complicate any single ideal of happiness, making gratitude an experience both personal and civic. Ideal for students, teachers, and general readers, this collection offers a rich comparative encounter with changing ideas of family, class, faith, generosity, and belonging. Readers will find in its varied forms an illuminating conversation across generations, and a rewarding invitation to reconsider Thanksgiving's cultural meanings.
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GenreGeneral Fiction
Length19 hrs 26 mins
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Publish dateNov 6, 2017
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Table of contents
1Portraits of Piety: The Lives, Legacies and Writings of Saints (A 40-Book Anthology)
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)
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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 Party and its Consequences (Mary Jane Holmes)
38CHAPTER I. NIGHT BEFORE THANKSGIVING.
39CHAPTER II. THANKSGIVING DAY.
40CHAPTER III. ADA HARCOURT.
41CHAPTER IV. LUCY.
42CHAPTER V. UNCLE ISRAEL.
43CHAPTER VI. EXPLANATION.
44CHAPTER VII. A MANEUVER.
45CHAPTER VIII. COUSIN BERINTHA AND LUCY'S PARTY.
46CHAPTER IX. A WEDDING AT ST. LUKE'S.
47CHAPTER X. A SURPRISE.
48CHAPTER XI. LIZZIE.
49The Night before Thanksgiving (Sarah Orne Jewett)
50I.
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