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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.
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GenreGeneral Fiction
Length442 hrs 1 min
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)
10CHAPTER I. THE WHITE CASTLE.
11CHAPTER II. IN THE FIR-WOODS.
12CHAPTER III. THE MYSTERIOUS COTTAGE.
13CHAPTER IV. FAIRY HOUSEKEEPING.
14CHAPTER VI. THE STORY OF A KING'S DAUGHTER
15CHAPTER VIII. THE SQUIRREL FAMILY.
16CHAPTER IX. A COMMITTEE OF BIRDS.
17CHAPTER X. A SAIL IN THE AIR.
18CHAPTER XI. THE EAGLES' EYRIE.
19The Little City of Hope (F. Marion Crawford) (pt. 1)
20The Little City of Hope (F. Marion Crawford) (pt. 2)
21Peter Pan and Wendy (J. M. Barrie)
22CHAPTER II
23CHAPTER III
24CHAPTER IV
25CHAPTER V
26CHAPTER VI
27CHAPTER VII
28CHAPTER VIII
29CHAPTER IX
30CHAPTER X
31CHAPTER XI
32CHAPTER XII
33CHAPTER XIII
34CHAPTER XIV
35CHAPTER XV
36CHAPTER XVI
37CHAPTER XVII
38Little Women (Louisa May Alcott)
39CHAPTER I. PLAYING PILGRIMS.
40CHAPTER II. A MERRY CHRISTMAS.
41CHAPTER III. THE LAURENCE BOY.
42CHAPTER IV. BURDEN.
43CHAPTER V. BEING NEIGHBORLY.
44CHAPTER VIII. JO MEETS APOLLYON.
45CHAPTER IX. MEG GOES TO VANITY FAIR.
46CHAPTER X. THE P. C. AND P. O.
47CHAPTER XI. EXPERIMENT.
48CHAPTER XII. CAMP LAURENCE.
49CHAPTER XIII. CASTLES IN THE AIR.
50CHAPTER XIV. SECRETS.