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 Brand
Length444h 38m
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
Length444 hrs 38 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateNov 30, 2018
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Preface
2Introduction
3The Origin and Associations of Christmas
4The Earlier Celebrations of the Festival
5Life and Adventures of Santa Claus (L. Frank Baum) (pt. 1)
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6Life and Adventures of Santa Claus (L. Frank Baum) (pt. 2)
7Christmas-Tree Land (Mary Louisa Molesworth) (pt. 1)
8Christmas-Tree Land (Mary Louisa Molesworth) (pt. 2)
9Christmas-Tree Land (Mary Louisa Molesworth) (pt. 3)
10The Little City of Hope (F. Marion Crawford) (pt. 1)
11The Little City of Hope (F. Marion Crawford) (pt. 2)
12Peter Pan and Wendy (J. M. Barrie) (pt. 1)
13Peter Pan and Wendy (J. M. Barrie) (pt. 2)
14Peter Pan and Wendy (J. M. Barrie) (pt. 3)
15Little Women (Louisa May Alcott) (pt. 1)
16Little Women (Louisa May Alcott) (pt. 2)
17Little Women (Louisa May Alcott) (pt. 3)
18Little Women (Louisa May Alcott) (pt. 4)
19Little Women (Louisa May Alcott) (pt. 5)
20Little Women (Louisa May Alcott) (pt. 6)
21Little Women (Louisa May Alcott) (pt. 7)
22Little Women (Louisa May Alcott) (pt. 8)
23Little Women (Louisa May Alcott) (pt. 9)
24The Wonderful Wizard of OZ (L. Frank Baum) (pt. 1)
25The Wonderful Wizard of OZ (L. Frank Baum) (pt. 2)
26Little Lord Fauntleroy (Frances Hodgson Burnett) (pt. 1)
27Little Lord Fauntleroy (Frances Hodgson Burnett) (pt. 2)
28Little Lord Fauntleroy (Frances Hodgson Burnett) (pt. 3)
29Christmas with Grandma Elsie (Martha Finley) (pt. 1)
30Christmas with Grandma Elsie (Martha Finley) (pt. 2)
31Christmas with Grandma Elsie (Martha Finley) (pt. 3)
32Christmas with Grandma Elsie (Martha Finley) (pt. 4)
33Anne of Green Gables (Lucy Maud Montgomery) (pt. 1)
34Anne of Green Gables (Lucy Maud Montgomery) (pt. 2)
35Anne of Green Gables (Lucy Maud Montgomery) (pt. 3)
36Anne of Green Gables (Lucy Maud Montgomery) (pt. 4)
37Anne of Green Gables (Lucy Maud Montgomery) (pt. 5)
38The Christmas Angel (Abbie Farwell Brown)
39At the Back of the North Wind (George MacDonald) (pt. 1)
40At the Back of the North Wind (George MacDonald) (pt. 2)
41At the Back of the North Wind (George MacDonald) (pt. 3)
42At the Back of the North Wind (George MacDonald) (pt. 4)
43Black Beauty (Anna Sewell) (pt. 1)
44Black Beauty (Anna Sewell) (pt. 2)
45Black Beauty (Anna Sewell) (pt. 3)
46The Christmas Child (Hesba Stretton)
47Granny’s Wonderful Chair (Frances Browne)
48The Romance of a Christmas Card (Kate Douglas Wiggin)
49Wind in the Willows (Kenneth Grahame) (pt. 1)
50Wind in the Willows (Kenneth Grahame) (pt. 2)
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