
Rediscover Your Holiday Sparkle: 400+ Christmas Novels, Stories, Poems, Carols & Legends
A Treasury of Classic Christmas Tales, Poems, Carols, and LegendsBy Mark Twain, Beatrix Potter, Louisa May Alcott, Charles Dickens, O. Henry, 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, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Clement Moore, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, William Wordsworth, Alfred Lord Tennyson, William Butler Yeats, Eleanor H. Porter, Jacob A. Riis, Susan Anne Livingston Ridley Sedgwick, Sophie May, Lucas Malet, Juliana Horatia Ewing, Alice Hale Burnett, Ernest Ingersoll, Annie F. Johnston, Amanda M. Douglas, Amy Ella Blanchard, Carolyn Wells, Walter Crane, Thomas Nelson Page, Florence L. Barclay, A. S. Boyd, Edward A. Rand, Max BrandLength441h 54m
About this audiobook
Rediscover Your Holiday Sparkle gathers more than four hundred Christmas novels, tales, poems, carols, and legends into a capacious archive of seasonal imagination. Moving from domestic realism and moral fable to fairy tale, ghostly wonder, devotional reflection, and lyric celebration, the volume charts the many literary uses of Christmas: charity, memory, childhood, social renewal, and enchantment. Its range encompasses enduring holiday narratives alongside lesser-known period pieces, creating a dialogue between canonical Victorian sentiment, European folklore, and transatlantic popular writing. The contributors represent an unusually broad assembly of nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century writers: novelists, poets, folklorists, children's authors, religious thinkers, and social observers. Their collective work intersects with Romantic lyricism, Victorian social conscience, the fairy-tale revival, Protestant devotional traditions, and the expanding culture of children's literature. British, American, Scandinavian, German, Russian, and Danish perspectives deepen the collection's cultural scope, showing how Christmas became both a local custom and an international literary language. Recommended for students, general readers, and holiday-literature enthusiasts, this anthology offers a valuable opportunity to compare forms and sensibilities within one generous volume. Readers may trace recurring images of hearth, winter, generosity, and transformation while discovering how differently each tradition imagines festive community. Its breadth makes it both an inviting seasonal companion and a rich resource for studying the history of Christmas writing.
Audiobook details
GenreGeneral Fiction
Length441 hrs 54 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateNov 30, 2018
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Big Book of Christmas Tales (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)
811. How the First Stockings Were Hung by the Chimneys
9Christmas-Tree Land (Mary Louisa Molesworth) (pt. 1)
10Christmas-Tree Land (Mary Louisa Molesworth) (pt. 2)
11Christmas-Tree Land (Mary Louisa Molesworth) (pt. 3)
12The Little City of Hope (F. Marion Crawford) (pt. 1)
13The Little City of Hope (F. Marion Crawford) (pt. 2)
14Peter Pan and Wendy (J. M. Barrie) (pt. 1)
15Peter Pan and Wendy (J. M. Barrie) (pt. 2)
16Peter Pan and Wendy (J. M. Barrie) (pt. 3)
17Little Women (Louisa May Alcott) (pt. 1)
18Little Women (Louisa May Alcott) (pt. 2)
19Little Women (Louisa May Alcott) (pt. 3)
20Little Women (Louisa May Alcott) (pt. 4)
21Little Women (Louisa May Alcott) (pt. 5)
22Little Women (Louisa May Alcott) (pt. 6)
23Little Women (Louisa May Alcott) (pt. 7)
24Little Women (Louisa May Alcott) (pt. 8)
25Little Women (Louisa May Alcott) (pt. 9)
26The Wonderful Wizard of OZ (L. Frank Baum)
2712. The Search for the Wicked Witch
28Little Lord Fauntleroy (Frances Hodgson Burnett) (pt. 1)
29Little Lord Fauntleroy (Frances Hodgson Burnett) (pt. 2)
30Little Lord Fauntleroy (Frances Hodgson Burnett) (pt. 3)
31Christmas with Grandma Elsie (Martha Finley) (pt. 1)
32Christmas with Grandma Elsie (Martha Finley) (pt. 2)
33Christmas with Grandma Elsie (Martha Finley) (pt. 3)
34Christmas with Grandma Elsie (Martha Finley) (pt. 4)
35Anne of Green Gables (Lucy Maud Montgomery) (pt. 1)
36Anne of Green Gables (Lucy Maud Montgomery) (pt. 2)
37Anne of Green Gables (Lucy Maud Montgomery) (pt. 3)
38Anne of Green Gables (Lucy Maud Montgomery) (pt. 4)
39Anne of Green Gables (Lucy Maud Montgomery) (pt. 5)
40The Christmas Angel (Abbie Farwell Brown)
41At the Back of the North Wind (George MacDonald) (pt. 1)
42At the Back of the North Wind (George MacDonald) (pt. 2)
43At the Back of the North Wind (George MacDonald) (pt. 3)
44At the Back of the North Wind (George MacDonald) (pt. 4)
45Black Beauty (Anna Sewell)
4623 A Strike for Liberty
4742 The Election
48The Christmas Child (Hesba Stretton)
49Granny’s Wonderful Chair (Frances Browne)
50The Romance of a Christmas Card (Kate Douglas Wiggin)