Length441h 54m
About this audiobook
Santa's Christmas Library gathers more than four hundred seasonal narratives, poems, carols, legends, and illustrated selections into a capacious archive of Christmas writing. Moving from folktale and devotional verse to domestic realism, fantasy, satire, and moral fable, the volume traces the holiday's literary transformations across languages and centuries. Canonical Christmas narratives stand beside fairy tales, hymns, children's literature, and lesser-known period pieces, while such landmarks as ghostly winter tales, gift-centered parables, and wonder-filled visions of Santa Claus reveal the season's enduring imaginative range. Its contributors form an unusually broad international assembly: British, American, Scandinavian, French, German, Russian, and Spanish writers join poets, clergy, folklorists, educators, and storytellers. Romanticism's reverence for nature and legend, Victorian culture's concern with childhood and charity, realist attention to poverty and social obligation, and the folklore revival all inform the collection. Familiar literary masters converse with writers of popular juvenile and devotional literature, enriching Christmas as both a religious observance and a shared cultural ritual. Recommended for students, general readers, and holiday-literature enthusiasts, this illustrated treasury offers a rare opportunity to compare forms, nations, and sensibilities within one volume. Its abundance invites both seasonal reading and sustained study, fostering revealing dialogues among tradition, faith, generosity, humor, memory, and enchantment.
Audiobook details
GenreGeneral Fiction
Length441 hrs 54 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateNov 28, 2018
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Down the Snow Stairs (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)
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