Playing Santa Claus and Other Christmas Tales (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. Children's Holiday StoriesBy Sarah P. Doughty
Length4h 27m
About this audiobook
Playing Santa Claus and Other Christmas Tales gathers brief, morally attentive Christmas stories shaped by the nineteenth-century tradition of domestic and juvenile gift literature. Its narratives turn on generosity, mistaken selfishness, family feeling, and the imaginative power of children, using a plain yet warmly sentimental style. Doughty's prose belongs to a culture in which Christmas fiction, after Dickens, became a vehicle for social conscience as well as seasonal pleasure. Sarah P. Doughty remains a comparatively obscure figure in literary history, yet this very modesty is revealing: she writes from the world of periodical tales, Sunday-school libraries, and improving family reading. Her work suggests an author attentive to children's moral education and to the household as a training ground for sympathy. The title story's interest in "playing" charity reflects a broader Victorian and American concern with making benevolence active, visible, and habitual. This volume is recommended to readers interested in Christmas literature beyond the canonical classics, especially those who value concise tales with ethical purpose. It will appeal to students of children's literature, holiday customs, and sentimental fiction, as well as to general readers seeking gentle, reflective seasonal stories. Doughty's tales reward attention not through plot complexity, but through their earnest vision of kindness as a social art.
This enriched edition has been carefully crafted to add value to your reading experience.
- Lastly, our hand‐picked Memorable Quotes distill pivotal lines and turning points, serving as touchstones for the collection's central themes.
Audiobook details
GenreChildren's Literature
Length4 hrs 27 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateNov 20, 2020
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe (Annotated)
9The Christmas-Tree.
2Playing Santa Claus and Other Christmas Tales
10A Dream.
3Playing Santa Claus.
11No Time Like the Present.
4Nothing To Give.
12The Little Match Boy.
5Willie’s Gold Dollar.
13I Forgot.
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6The Thanksgiving Party.
14The Silver Morning and the Golden Day.
7A Christmas Story.
15Two Sides to a Story.
8April Fool’s Day.
16Memorable Quotes
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