Length24h 11m

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Thanksgiving Story Book gathers fiction, legend, reminiscence, and moral tale around the American holiday's intertwined languages of gratitude, domesticity, charity, memory, and communal obligation. Its range moves from realistic village and family scenes to historical imagination, children's literature, sentiment, humor, and romance, revealing Thanksgiving as both a seasonal ritual and a flexible literary symbol. Evocations of harvest, reunion, hardship, and unexpected generosity give the volume particular emotional and cultural resonance. The contributors represent a notable cross-section of nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century Anglo-American letters, including major novelists, influential writers for young readers, popular storytellers, and translators or adaptors of European materials. Their combined presence situates the collection within traditions of domestic realism, regional writing, moral instruction, folklore, and the expanding culture of juvenile publishing. Women's accounts of household life and social feeling converse with historical, fantastical, and civic narratives, producing a many-sided portrait of how gratitude could be imagined across class, age, and nation. This volume rewards readers seeking both a literary history of Thanksgiving and an inviting anthology of short forms. Its varied voices illuminate changing ideals of family, generosity, belonging, and remembrance, while its differing styles foster a rich dialogue between intimate experience and public custom. It is especially valuable for students, teachers, and general readers interested in holiday literature's cultural work.

Audiobook details

GenreGeneral Fiction
Length24 hrs 11 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateNov 6, 2017
LanguageEnglish

Table of contents

1Aesop's Fables (Illustrated Edition) (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)
22I
23II
24III
25IV
26V
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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