Thanksgiving Stories
Classic Holiday Tales of Gratitude, Family, Community, and New England TraditionBy Harriet Beecher Stowe, Louisa May Alcott, Andrew Lang, George Eliot, Annie Hamilton Donnell, Eugene Field, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Hezekiah Butterworth, Edward Everett Hale, Sarah Orne Jewett, Susan Coolidge, Maud Lindsay, Olive Thorne Miller, Winthrop Packard, Kate Upson Clark, Alfred Gatty, Albert F. Blaisdell, Eleanor H. Porter, C. A. Stephens, J. T. Trowbridge, Eleanor L. Skinner, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Rose Terry Cooke, Edna Payson Brett, Phila Butler Bowman, Katherine Grace Hulbert, Agnes Carr, Isabel Gordon Curtis, P. J. Stahl, Sheldon C. Stoddard, Francis K. Ball, R. K. Munkittrick, E. S. Brooks, Emily Hewitt Leland, Fannie Wilder Brown, Alice Wheildon, Pauline Shackleford Colyar, H. R. Schoolcraft, L. B. Pingree, Sophie Swet
Length24h 11m
About this audiobook
Thanksgiving Stories gathers a capacious body of nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century writing around gratitude, hospitality, family memory, rural custom, and the ethical claims of communal celebration. Its selections range from sentimental domestic sketches and children's tales to regional realism, moral fables, humorous episodes, and more reflective narratives of deprivation and generosity. By placing canonical literary figures beside prolific writers for young readers and periodical audiences, the volume reveals Thanksgiving as both a national ritual and a flexible imaginative setting. Scenes of shared tables, unexpected beneficence, and hard-won reconciliation give the collection particular emotional and cultural resonance. The contributors represent an expansive Anglo-American literary culture shaped by domestic fiction, New England regionalism, didactic children's literature, magazine publication, and the lingering influence of Victorian moral narrative. Their varied backgrounds bring distinct social worlds into view: households and schools, farms and small towns, immigrant-inflected communities, and landscapes where seasonal change frames human obligation. Together, these voices complicate any single image of the holiday, tracing how ideals of charity, kinship, labor, and civic belonging were taught, questioned, and renewed across generations. Recommended for students, teachers, and general readers alike, Thanksgiving Stories offers an unusually rich opportunity to study a familiar holiday through multiple genres and historical sensibilities. Its breadth makes it valuable both as an introduction to popular and literary traditions and as a conversation among contrasting narrative voices, inviting readers to reconsider celebration as an ethical, cultural, and imaginative practice.
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GenreGeneral Fiction
Length24 hrs 11 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 11, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Christmas Supper in the Marais & Other Christmas Stories by Alphonse Daudet (Annotated)
2An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving (Louisa May Alcott)
3CHAPTER I. GENEALOGY AND PARENTAGE.
4CHAPTER II. CHILDHOOD.
5CHAPTER III. FRUITLANDS.
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6CHAPTER IV. THE SENTIMENTAL PERIOD.
7CHAPTER V. AUTHORSHIP.
8CHAPTER VI. THE YEAR OF GOOD LUCK.
9CHAPTER VII. HOSPITAL SKETCHES.
10CHAPTER VIII. EUROPE AND LITTLE WOMEN.
11CHAPTER IX. EUROPE.
12CHAPTER X. FAMILY CHANGES.
13CHAPTER XI. LAST YEARS.
14CHAPTER XII. CONCLUSION.
15Aunt Susanna's Thanksgiving Dinner (Lucy Maud Montgomery)
16The Genesis of the Doughnut Club (Lucy Maud Montgomery)
17An English Dinner of Thanksgiving (George Eliot)
18Ezra's Thanksgivin' Out West (Eugene Field)
19John Inglefield's Thanksgiving (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
20Helen's Thanksgiving (Susan Coolidge)
21Thanksgiving at the Polls (Edward Everett Hale)
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25IV
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27VI
28VII
29Millionaire Mike's Thanksgiving (Eleanor H. Porter)
30The Thanksgiving of the Wazir (Andrew Lang)
31The Master of the Harvest (Mrs. Alfred Gatty)
32How We Kept Thanksgiving at Oldtown (Harriet Beecher Stowe)
33The Queer Little Baker Man (Phila Butler Bowman)
34A Turkey for the Stuffing (Katherine Grace Hulbert)
35Mrs. November’s Party (Agnes Carr)
36The Debut of Dan’l Webster (Isabel Gordon Curtis)
37The Two Alms, or the Thanksgiving Day Gift (Eleanor L. Skinner)
38The Kingdom of the Greedy (P. J. Stahl)
39Thankful (Mary E. Wilkins Freeman)
40Beetle Ring's Thanksgiving Mascot (Sheldon C. Stoddard)
41Mistress Esteem Elliott's Molasses Cake (Kate Upson Clark)
42The First Thanksgiving (Albert F. Blaisdell and Francis K. Ball)
43Thanksgiving at Todd's Asylum (Winthrop Packard)
44Wishbone Valley (R. K. Munkittrick)
45Patem's Salmagundi (E. S. Brooks)
46Miss November's Dinner Party (Agnes Carr)
47The Visit (Maud Lindsay)
48The Story of Ruth and Naomi (Bible)
49Bert's Thanksgiving (J. T. Trowbridge)
50A Thanksgiving Story (Miss L. B. Pingree)
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