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Santa's Library gathers more than four hundred Christmas novels, tales, poems, carols, and legends into an expansive archive of seasonal literature. Its governing concerns—charity, domestic fellowship, childhood wonder, spiritual renewal, winter hardship, and communal festivity—are explored through fairy tale, realist sketch, moral fable, devotional verse, comic anecdote, and Gothic or supernatural narrative. Canonical Christmas visions stand alongside lesser-known popular, juvenile, and transatlantic writings, allowing familiar scenes of hearth and snow to acquire unexpected historical and emotional depth. The volume's contributors span several centuries and languages, bringing together major British, American, Scandinavian, French, Spanish, Russian, and German traditions. Poets, novelists, folklorists, religious writers, children's authors, and social observers collectively trace Christmas literature's movement from sacred observance and folk legend toward Victorian domestic culture, modern sentiment, and social critique. The presence of writers associated with realism, Romanticism, fairy-tale revival, regionalism, and reformist literature makes the collection especially revealing: Christmas becomes both an inherited ritual and a lens on class, family, belief, generosity, and national custom. Recommended for readers, students, and scholars of seasonal culture, Santa's Library offers an unusually rich opportunity to compare forms and traditions within one volume. Its breadth rewards both casual festive reading and sustained inquiry, fostering a lively dialogue among sacred song, imaginative legend, and the many literary meanings of Christmas.
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GenreGeneral Fiction
Length444 hrs 38 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
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Publish dateNov 21, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Santa's Library: 400+ Christmas Novels, Stories, Poems, Carols & Legends
2Preface
3Introduction
4The Origin and Associations of Christmas
5The Earlier Celebrations of the Festival
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6Life and Adventures of Santa Claus (L. Frank Baum) (pt. 1)
7Life and Adventures of Santa Claus (L. Frank Baum) (pt. 2)
8Christmas-Tree Land (Mary Louisa Molesworth) (pt. 1)
9Christmas-Tree Land (Mary Louisa Molesworth) (pt. 2)
10Christmas-Tree Land (Mary Louisa Molesworth) (pt. 3)
11The Little City of Hope (F. Marion Crawford) (pt. 1)
12The Little City of Hope (F. Marion Crawford) (pt. 2)
13Peter Pan and Wendy (J. M. Barrie) (pt. 1)
14Peter Pan and Wendy (J. M. Barrie) (pt. 2)
15Peter Pan and Wendy (J. M. Barrie) (pt. 3)
16Little Women (Louisa May Alcott) (pt. 1)
17Little Women (Louisa May Alcott) (pt. 2)
18Little Women (Louisa May Alcott) (pt. 3)
19Little Women (Louisa May Alcott) (pt. 4)
20Little Women (Louisa May Alcott) (pt. 5)
21Little Women (Louisa May Alcott) (pt. 6)
22Little Women (Louisa May Alcott) (pt. 7)
23Little Women (Louisa May Alcott) (pt. 8)
24Little Women (Louisa May Alcott) (pt. 9)
25The Wonderful Wizard of OZ (L. Frank Baum) (pt. 1)
26The Wonderful Wizard of OZ (L. Frank Baum) (pt. 2)
27Little Lord Fauntleroy (Frances Hodgson Burnett) (pt. 1)
28Little Lord Fauntleroy (Frances Hodgson Burnett) (pt. 2)
29Little Lord Fauntleroy (Frances Hodgson Burnett) (pt. 3)
30Christmas with Grandma Elsie (Martha Finley) (pt. 1)
31Christmas with Grandma Elsie (Martha Finley) (pt. 2)
32Christmas with Grandma Elsie (Martha Finley) (pt. 3)
33Christmas with Grandma Elsie (Martha Finley) (pt. 4)
34Anne of Green Gables (Lucy Maud Montgomery) (pt. 1)
35Anne of Green Gables (Lucy Maud Montgomery) (pt. 2)
36Anne of Green Gables (Lucy Maud Montgomery) (pt. 3)
37Anne of Green Gables (Lucy Maud Montgomery) (pt. 4)
38Anne of Green Gables (Lucy Maud Montgomery) (pt. 5)
39The Christmas Angel (Abbie Farwell Brown)
40At the Back of the North Wind (George MacDonald) (pt. 1)
41At the Back of the North Wind (George MacDonald) (pt. 2)
42At the Back of the North Wind (George MacDonald) (pt. 3)
43At the Back of the North Wind (George MacDonald) (pt. 4)
44Black Beauty (Anna Sewell) (pt. 1)
45Black Beauty (Anna Sewell) (pt. 2)
46Black Beauty (Anna Sewell) (pt. 3)
47The Christmas Child (Hesba Stretton)
48Granny’s Wonderful Chair (Frances Browne)
49The Romance of a Christmas Card (Kate Douglas Wiggin)
50Wind in the Willows (Kenneth Grahame) (pt. 1)
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