The Big Book of Christmas Magic: 400+ Holiday Novels, Tales, Poems, Carols & Legends
A Treasury of Holiday Tales, Poems, Carols, Legends, and Winter WonderBy Selma Lagerlöf, Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Martin Luther, Robert Louis Stevenson, William Shakespeare, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Max Brand, William Wordsworth, Carolyn Wells, Sophie May, Louisa May Alcott, Henry Van Dyke, Walter Scott, Susan Anne Livingston Ridley Sedgwick, Anthony Trollope, Rudyard Kipling, Beatrix Potter, Emily Dickinson, Lucas Malet, Thomas Nelson Page, O. Henry, Alice Hale Burnett, Walter Crane, Amy Ella Blanchard, Amanda M. Douglas, Ernest Ingersoll, L. Frank Baum, J. M. Barrie, Eleanor H. Porter, Annie F. Johnston, Jacob A. Riis, Edward A. Rand, Florence L. Barclay, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Hans Christian Andersen, William Butler Yeats, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Alfred Lord Tennyson, George Macdonald, A. S. Boyd, Juliana Horatia Ewing, Brothers Grimm, Clement Moore
Length444h 38m
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The Big Book of Christmas Magic gathers more than four hundred novels, tales, poems, carols, and legends into a capacious literary history of the holiday imagination. Moving between realist social critique, fairy tale, devotional writing, children's literature, lyric poetry, gothic fantasy, and folklore, it reveals Christmas as both sacred observance and richly adaptable cultural myth. Familiar seasonal narratives stand beside spectral visitations, domestic scenes, winter landscapes, and moral fables, giving the volume unusual generic and historical breadth. Its contributors span European and American traditions from the Reformation through the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Canonical novelists, poets, folklorists, children's writers, and popular storytellers collectively illuminate the period's concerns with charity, poverty, family, belief, memory, wonder, and social reform. The anthology's convergence of Romantic nature writing, Victorian Christmas culture, Scandinavian and Germanic wonder tales, Russian moral fiction, and Anglo-American domestic narrative makes it a valuable record of how holiday literature travelled across languages, classes, and generations. This volume is recommended for readers seeking both seasonal pleasure and a serious introduction to Christmas writing's remarkable diversity. Its abundance invites comparison among forms and traditions, while its varied voices foster a continuing dialogue between enchantment and ethics, ritual and entertainment. Students, scholars, and general readers alike will find an instructive, expansive treasury of winter literature.
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GenreGeneral Fiction
Length444 hrs 38 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateNov 22, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Big Book of Christmas Magic: 400+ Holiday Novels, Tales, 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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