The Christmas Holiday Cheer: 180+ Novels, Tales & Poems in One Volume (Illustrated Edition)
Illustrated Classics of Winter Tales, Poems, Folklore & Festive CheerBy Selma Lagerlöf, Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Robert Louis Stevenson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, George MacDonald, William Wordsworth, Carolyn Wells, Sophie May, Louisa May Alcott, Walter Scott, Anthony Trollope, Rudyard Kipling, Beatrix Potter, Emily Dickinson, Lucas Malet, 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, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Hans Christian Andersen, William Butler Yeats, Henry van Dyke, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Juliana Horatia Ewing, Brothers Grimm, Clement Moore, Susan Anne Livingston, Ridley Sedgwick
Length335h 5m
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The Christmas Holiday Cheer gathers more than 180 novels, tales, poems, and illustrated seasonal pieces into a capacious literary archive of Christmas. Its contents range from Victorian moral fable and domestic realism to fairy tale, ghostly fantasy, children's fiction, lyric meditation, and social observation. Familiar narratives of generosity, winter wonder, family reunion, and redemption stand beside imaginative excursions into folklore and the supernatural, revealing Christmas as both religious feast and evolving cultural language. The volume's illustrations further evoke the periodical, gift-book, and nursery traditions through which holiday literature reached broad audiences. Its contributors form an unusually expansive transatlantic and European constellation, bringing together major nineteenth- and early twentieth-century novelists, poets, folklorists, children's writers, and social commentators. British, American, Scandinavian, German, and Russian traditions meet here, connecting Romantic nature poetry, Victorian Christmas publishing, fairy-tale revivalism, realist social conscience, and the rise of literature for young readers. These divergent voices enlarge the season beyond sentimentality, attending to poverty and charity, childhood and memory, faith and doubt, communal ritual, and private longing. Recommended for students, general readers, and lovers of classic literature, this illustrated anthology offers a rare opportunity to compare genres, national traditions, and changing ideals of festivity within one volume. Its breadth makes it valuable both as a pleasurable seasonal companion and as a resource for tracing the rich dialogue among literary imaginations of Christmas.
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GenreGeneral Fiction
Length335 hrs 5 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 18, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Greatest Christmas Tales & Poems in One Volume (Illustrated)
2The Christmas Holiday Cheer: 180+ Novels, Tales & Poems in One Volume (Illustrated Edition)
3Novels
4Life and Adventures of Santa Claus (L. Frank Baum)
51. Burzee
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62. The Child of the Forest
73. The Adoption
84. Claus
95. The Master Woodsman
106. Claus Discovers Humanity
117. Claus Leaves the Forest
121. The Laughing Valley
132. How Claus Made the First Toy
143. How the Ryls Colored the Toys
154. How Little Mayrie Became Frightened
165. How Bessie Blithesome Came to the Laughing Valley
176. The Wickedness of the Awgwas
187. The Great Battle Between Good and Evil
198. The First Journey with the Reindeer
209. "Santa Claus!"
2110. Christmas Eve
2211. How the First Stockings Were Hung by the Chimneys
2312. The First Christmas Tree
241. The Mantle of Immortality
252. When the World Grew Old
263. The Deputies of Santa Claus
27Christmas-Tree Land (Mary Louisa Molesworth)
28CHAPTER I. THE WHITE CASTLE.
29CHAPTER II. IN THE FIR-WOODS.
30CHAPTER III. THE MYSTERIOUS COTTAGE.
31CHAPTER IV. FAIRY HOUSEKEEPING.
32CHAPTER V. THE STORY OF A KING'S DAUGHTER.
33CHAPTER VI. THE STORY OF A KING'S DAUGHTER
34CHAPTER VII. A WINDING STAIR AND A SCAMPER.
35CHAPTER VIII. THE SQUIRREL FAMILY.
36CHAPTER IX. A COMMITTEE OF BIRDS.
37CHAPTER X. A SAIL IN THE AIR.
38CHAPTER XI. THE EAGLES' EYRIE.
39CHAPTER XII. A VISION OF CHRISTMAS TREES.
40I HOW JOHN HENRY OVERHOLT SAT ON PANDORA'S BOX
41II HOW A MAN AND A BOY FOUNDED THE LITTLE CITY OF HOPE
42III HOW THEY MADE BRICKS WITHOUT STRAW
43IV HOW THERE WAS A FAMINE IN THE CITY
44V HOW THE CITY WAS BESIEGED AND THE LID OF PANDORA'S BOX CAME OFF
45VI HOW A SMALL BOY DID A BIG THING AND NAILED DOWN THE LID OF THE BOX
46VII HOW A LITTLE WOMAN DID A GREAT DEED TO SAVE THE CITY
47VIII HOW THE WHEELS WENT ROUND AT LAST
48IX HOW THE KING OF HEARTS MADE A FEAST IN THE CITY OF HOPE
49Peter Pan and Wendy (J. M. Barrie)
50ILLUSTRATIONS
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