The Great Short Stories of Thanksgiving
Classic Tales of Gratitude, Family Reunions, Charity, and Moral RenewalBy Nathaniel Hawthorne, George Eliot, O. Henry, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Louisa May Alcott, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Eleanor H. Porter, Susan Coolidge, Andrew Lang, Eugene Field, Alfred Gatty, Edward Everett Hale, Alfred Henry Lewis, Nora Perry, Mary Jane Holmes, Sarah Orne Jewett, Ida Hamilton Munsell
Length19h 42m
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The Great Short Stories of Thanksgiving frames the holiday not as a single ritual but as a capacious literary occasion for gratitude, hunger, kinship, memory, and social obligation. Spanning moral fable, domestic sentiment, regional realism, comic sketch, children's fiction, and psychologically alert social critique, the selection places familiar seasonal scenes beside more unsettling reflections on belonging and want. Its range illuminates the nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century short story as a form in which national custom, private conscience, and popular entertainment could meet. Drawn from a transatlantic and North American constellation of major and now less frequently read writers, these contributors bring divergent cultural settings and literary commitments to the Thanksgiving theme. The volume joins writers associated with Romantic allegory, Victorian realism, local-color writing, reformist fiction, and the flourishing literature of childhood and domestic life. Especially notable is the prominence of women whose fiction interrogates family, labor, social expectation, and emotional independence, alongside voices attuned to humor, folklore, and civic responsibility. This anthology is recommended for readers seeking both seasonal reading and a compact survey of the short story's historical breadth. Its varied perspectives invite comparison across class, region, gender, and generation, while its shifting tones foster a rich dialogue about what Thanksgiving has meant—and continues to mean—in literary culture.
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GenreGeneral Fiction
Length19 hrs 42 mins
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Publish dateNov 14, 2017
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1True Life Stories: The Greatest Native American Memoirs & Biographies
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)
17Two Thanksgiving Day Gentlemen (O. Henry)
18The Purple Dress (O. Henry)
19An English Dinner of Thanksgiving (George Eliot)
20Ezra's Thanksgivin' Out West (Eugene Field)
21Three Thanksgivings (Charlotte Perkins Gilman)
22John Inglefield's Thanksgiving (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
23Helen's Thanksgiving (Susan Coolidge)
24Thanksgiving at the Polls (Edward Everett Hale)
25I
26II
27III
28IV
29V
30VI
31VII
32Millionaire Mike's Thanksgiving (Eleanor H. Porter)
33The Thanksgiving of the Wazir (Andrew Lang)
34The Master of the Harvest (Mrs. Alfred Gatty)
35A Wolfville Thanksgiving (Alfred Henry Lewis)
36How We Kept Thanksgiving at Oldtown (Harriet Beecher Stowe)
37The Thanksgiving Guest (Nora Perry)
38CHAPTER I.
39CHAPTER II.
40The Thanksgiving Party and its Consequences (Mary Jane Holmes)
41CHAPTER I. NIGHT BEFORE THANKSGIVING.
42CHAPTER II. THANKSGIVING DAY.
43CHAPTER III. ADA HARCOURT.
44CHAPTER IV. LUCY.
45CHAPTER V. UNCLE ISRAEL.
46CHAPTER VI. EXPLANATION.
47CHAPTER VII. A MANEUVER.
48CHAPTER VIII. COUSIN BERINTHA AND LUCY'S PARTY.
49CHAPTER IX. A WEDDING AT ST. LUKE'S.
50CHAPTER X. A SURPRISE.
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