
Length441h 55m
About this audiobook
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
Length441 hrs 55 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateNov 21, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Essential Writings of Edward Bellamy (Annotated)
2Santa's Library: 400+ Christmas Novels, Stories, Poems, Carols & Legends
3Preface
4Introduction
5The Origin and Associations of Christmas
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6The Earlier Celebrations of the Festival
7Novels
8Life and Adventures of Santa Claus (L. Frank Baum)
911. How the First Stockings Were Hung by the Chimneys
10Christmas-Tree Land (Mary Louisa Molesworth) (pt. 1)
11Christmas-Tree Land (Mary Louisa Molesworth) (pt. 2)
12Christmas-Tree Land (Mary Louisa Molesworth) (pt. 3)
13The Little City of Hope (F. Marion Crawford) (pt. 1)
14The Little City of Hope (F. Marion Crawford) (pt. 2)
15Peter Pan and Wendy (J. M. Barrie) (pt. 1)
16Peter Pan and Wendy (J. M. Barrie) (pt. 2)
17Peter Pan and Wendy (J. M. Barrie) (pt. 3)
18Little Women (Louisa May Alcott) (pt. 1)
19Little Women (Louisa May Alcott) (pt. 2)
20Little Women (Louisa May Alcott) (pt. 3)
21Little Women (Louisa May Alcott) (pt. 4)
22Little Women (Louisa May Alcott) (pt. 5)
23Little Women (Louisa May Alcott) (pt. 6)
24Little Women (Louisa May Alcott) (pt. 7)
25Little Women (Louisa May Alcott) (pt. 8)
26Little Women (Louisa May Alcott) (pt. 9)
27The Wonderful Wizard of OZ (L. Frank Baum)
2812. The Search for the Wicked Witch
29Little Lord Fauntleroy (Frances Hodgson Burnett) (pt. 1)
30Little Lord Fauntleroy (Frances Hodgson Burnett) (pt. 2)
31Little Lord Fauntleroy (Frances Hodgson Burnett) (pt. 3)
32Christmas with Grandma Elsie (Martha Finley) (pt. 1)
33Christmas with Grandma Elsie (Martha Finley) (pt. 2)
34Christmas with Grandma Elsie (Martha Finley) (pt. 3)
35Christmas with Grandma Elsie (Martha Finley) (pt. 4)
36Anne of Green Gables (Lucy Maud Montgomery) (pt. 1)
37Anne of Green Gables (Lucy Maud Montgomery) (pt. 2)
38Anne of Green Gables (Lucy Maud Montgomery) (pt. 3)
39Anne of Green Gables (Lucy Maud Montgomery) (pt. 4)
40Anne of Green Gables (Lucy Maud Montgomery) (pt. 5)
41The Christmas Angel (Abbie Farwell Brown)
42At the Back of the North Wind (George MacDonald) (pt. 1)
43At the Back of the North Wind (George MacDonald) (pt. 2)
44At the Back of the North Wind (George MacDonald) (pt. 3)
45At the Back of the North Wind (George MacDonald) (pt. 4)
46Black Beauty (Anna Sewell)
4723 A Strike for Liberty
4842 The Election
49The Christmas Child (Hesba Stretton)
50Granny’s Wonderful Chair (Frances Browne)