The Greatest Christmas Novels in One Volume (Illustrated)
An Illustrated Treasury of Victorian Holiday Tales, Childhood Wonder, Charity, and RenewalBy J. M. Barrie, Charles Dickens, Johanna Spyri, Louisa May Alcott, L. Frank Baum, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Lucy Maud Montgomery, George MacDonald, Mary Louisa Molesworth, Martha Finley, Abbie Farwell Brown, Anna Sewell, Hesba Stretton, Frances Browne, Kate Douglas Wiggin, Kenneth Grahame
Length105h 22m
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The Greatest Christmas Novels in One Volume (Illustrated) gathers a capacious nineteenth- and early twentieth-century tradition of Christmas fiction, where domestic realism, fairy tale, moral parable, pastoral adventure, and child-centered fantasy converge. Its pages move between hearthside scenes of charity and reconciliation, enchanted landscapes, animal feeling, family rituals, and visions of childhood wonder. Illustrated presentation enhances the period's close association between seasonal reading, visual culture, and the intimate experience of reading aloud. Familiar narratives of generosity and transformation stand beside less frequently encountered works, revealing Christmas literature as a varied literary mode rather than a single sentiment. The contributors represent an Anglo-American and European constellation of major writers for children and adults, including novelists, fabulists, social reform-minded storytellers, and architects of enduring imaginary worlds. Together, their work reflects Victorian and Edwardian debates about poverty, education, gendered domesticity, spirituality, empire, and the moral status of animals. Their differing national settings and stylistic inheritances—from realism and romance to folklore and fantasy—make seasonal celebration a lens through which cultural values are tested, revised, and shared. This volume is especially rewarding for readers seeking both pleasure and context: it offers an accessible survey of Christmas writing's breadth while inviting comparison among its many voices. Students, scholars, and general readers alike will find a rich dialogue between sentiment and social conscience, wonder and realism, tradition and imaginative renewal.
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GenreGeneral Fiction
Length105 hrs 22 mins
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Publish dateDec 1, 2015
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Wonderful Wizard of OZ (Annotated)
2The Greatest Christmas Novels in One Volume (Illustrated)
3Life and Adventures of Santa Claus (L. Frank Baum)
4YOUTH
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
12MANHOOD
131. The Laughing Valley
142. How Claus Made the First Toy
153. How the Ryls Colored the Toys
164. How Little Mayrie Became Frightened
175. How Bessie Blithesome Came to the Laughing Valley
186. The Wickedness of the Awgwas
197. The Great Battle Between Good and Evil
208. The First Journey with the Reindeer
219. "Santa Claus!"
2210. Christmas Eve
2311. How the First Stockings Were Hung by the Chimneys
2412. The First Christmas Tree
25OLD AGE
261. The Mantle of Immortality
272. When the World Grew Old
283. The Deputies of Santa Claus
29Christmas-Tree Land (Mary Louisa Molesworth)
30CHAPTER I. THE WHITE CASTLE.
31CHAPTER II. IN THE FIR-WOODS.
32CHAPTER III. THE MYSTERIOUS COTTAGE.
33CHAPTER IV. FAIRY HOUSEKEEPING.
34CHAPTER V. THE STORY OF A KING'S DAUGHTER.
35CHAPTER VI. THE STORY OF A KING'S DAUGHTER
36CHAPTER VII. A WINDING STAIR AND A SCAMPER.
37CHAPTER VIII. THE SQUIRREL FAMILY.
38CHAPTER IX. A COMMITTEE OF BIRDS.
39CHAPTER X. A SAIL IN THE AIR.
40CHAPTER XI. THE EAGLES' EYRIE.
41CHAPTER XII. A VISION OF CHRISTMAS TREES.
42I HOW JOHN HENRY OVERHOLT SAT ON PANDORA'S BOX
43II HOW A MAN AND A BOY FOUNDED THE LITTLE CITY OF HOPE
44III HOW THEY MADE BRICKS WITHOUT STRAW
45IV HOW THERE WAS A FAMINE IN THE CITY
46V HOW THE CITY WAS BESIEGED AND THE LID OF PANDORA'S BOX CAME OFF
47VI HOW A SMALL BOY DID A BIG THING AND NAILED DOWN THE LID OF THE BOX
48VII HOW A LITTLE WOMAN DID A GREAT DEED TO SAVE THE CITY
49VIII HOW THE WHEELS WENT ROUND AT LAST
50IX HOW THE KING OF HEARTS MADE A FEAST IN THE CITY OF HOPE
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