The Greatest Christmas Novels, Tales & Poems (Illustrated) (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. Classic Christmas Tales & Poems: A Festive Collection from Legendary AuthorsBy Charles Dickens, Anthony Trollope, Mark Twain, Beatrix Potter, Louisa May Alcott, O. Henry, Leo Tolstoy, L. Frank Baum, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Emily Dickinson, Robert Louis Stevenson, Rudyard Kipling, Hans Christian Andersen, Selma Lagerlöf, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Walter Scott, J. M. Barrie, Brothers Grimm, George MacDonald, Henry van Dyke, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Clement Moore, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, William Wordsworth, Alfred Lord Tennyson, William Butler Yeats
Length337h 45m
About this audiobook
The Greatest Christmas Novels, Tales & Poems (Illustrated) gathers a remarkable transatlantic and European tradition of seasonal writing, ranging from moral fable and domestic realism to fairy tale, lyric meditation, children's fantasy, and supernatural visitation. Its pages evoke Christmas as feast, memory, charity, wonder, and spiritual reckoning, placing beloved redemptive narratives beside wintry poems, fireside legends, and tales of childhood enchantment. The illustrated format further situates these works within the gift-book and family-reading cultures that helped define the holiday's literary imagination. The contributors represent an extraordinary constellation of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century voices: Victorian social critics, American regionalists, Russian moral philosophers, Scandinavian fabulists, Romantic and post-Romantic poets, and collectors of folk tradition. Together, figures such as Dickens, Alcott, Twain, Tolstoy, Andersen, Lagerlöf, Dickinson, Stevenson, Kipling, the Grimms, and Yeats illuminate how Christmas literature intersects with reform movements, childhood studies, religious sentiment, folklore, and the rise of popular print culture. Their varied idioms enrich the anthology's central concern with generosity, memory, conscience, and communal renewal. This volume is ideal for readers seeking more than seasonal nostalgia. It offers a compact education in literary history through a festive lens, inviting comparison among genres, nations, and moral visions. To read it is to enter a many-voiced conversation about winter, belief, imagination, and human fellowship.
This enriched edition has been carefully crafted to add value to your reading experience.
- An Introduction draws the threads together, discussing why these diverse authors and texts belong in one collection.
- Historical Context explores the cultural and intellectual currents that shaped these works, offering insight into the shared (or contrasting) eras that influenced each writer.
- A combined Synopsis (Selection) briefly outlines the key plots or arguments of the included pieces, helping readers grasp the anthology's overall scope without giving away essential twists.
- A collective Analysis highlights common themes, stylistic variations, and significant crossovers in tone and technique, tying together writers from different backgrounds.
- Reflection questions encourage readers to compare the different voices and perspectives within the collection, fostering a richer understanding of the overarching conversation.
Audiobook details
GenreGeneral Fiction
Length337 hrs 45 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 9, 2016
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Greatest Christmas Novels, Tales & Poems (Illustrated) (Annotated)
26The Wonderful Wizard of OZ (L. Frank Baum) (pt. 2)
2Introduction
27Little Lord Fauntleroy (Frances Hodgson Burnett) (pt. 1)
3Historical Context
28Little Lord Fauntleroy (Frances Hodgson Burnett) (pt. 2)
4Synopsis (Selection)
29Little Lord Fauntleroy (Frances Hodgson Burnett) (pt. 3)
5Novels
30Christmas with Grandma Elsie (Martha Finley) (pt. 1)
Show all chaptersShow less
6Life and Adventures of Santa Claus (L. Frank Baum) (pt. 1)
31Christmas with Grandma Elsie (Martha Finley) (pt. 2)
7Life and Adventures of Santa Claus (L. Frank Baum) (pt. 2)
32Christmas with Grandma Elsie (Martha Finley) (pt. 3)
8Christmas-Tree Land (Mary Louisa Molesworth) (pt. 1)
33Christmas with Grandma Elsie (Martha Finley) (pt. 4)
9Christmas-Tree Land (Mary Louisa Molesworth) (pt. 2)
34Anne of Green Gables (Lucy Maud Montgomery) (pt. 1)
10Christmas-Tree Land (Mary Louisa Molesworth) (pt. 3)
35Anne of Green Gables (Lucy Maud Montgomery) (pt. 2)
11The Little City of Hope (F. Marion Crawford) (pt. 1)
36Anne of Green Gables (Lucy Maud Montgomery) (pt. 3)
12The Little City of Hope (F. Marion Crawford) (pt. 2)
37Anne of Green Gables (Lucy Maud Montgomery) (pt. 4)
13Peter Pan and Wendy (J. M. Barrie) (pt. 1)
38Anne of Green Gables (Lucy Maud Montgomery) (pt. 5)
14Peter Pan and Wendy (J. M. Barrie) (pt. 2)
39The Christmas Angel (Abbie Farwell Brown)
15Peter Pan and Wendy (J. M. Barrie) (pt. 3)
40At the Back of the North Wind (George MacDonald) (pt. 1)
16Little Women (Louisa May Alcott) (pt. 1)
41At the Back of the North Wind (George MacDonald) (pt. 2)
17Little Women (Louisa May Alcott) (pt. 2)
42At the Back of the North Wind (George MacDonald) (pt. 3)
18Little Women (Louisa May Alcott) (pt. 3)
43At the Back of the North Wind (George MacDonald) (pt. 4)
19Little Women (Louisa May Alcott) (pt. 4)
44Black Beauty (Anna Sewell) (pt. 1)
20Little Women (Louisa May Alcott) (pt. 5)
45Black Beauty (Anna Sewell) (pt. 2)
21Little Women (Louisa May Alcott) (pt. 6)
46Black Beauty (Anna Sewell) (pt. 3)
22Little Women (Louisa May Alcott) (pt. 7)
47The Christmas Child (Hesba Stretton)
23Little Women (Louisa May Alcott) (pt. 8)
48Granny’s Wonderful Chair (Frances Browne)
24Little Women (Louisa May Alcott) (pt. 9)
49The Romance of a Christmas Card (Kate Douglas Wiggin)
25The Wonderful Wizard of OZ (L. Frank Baum) (pt. 1)
50Wind in the Willows (Kenneth Grahame) (pt. 1)
The Greatest British Classics Ever Written (Annotated)Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Charlotte Brontë, William Shakespeare, John Milton, Jonathan Swift, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Laurence Sterne, Jane Austen, William Makepeace Thackeray, P. B. Shelley, Mary Shelley, John Keats, Emily Brontë, Thomas Hardy, Elizabeth von Arnim, D. H. Lawrence, Ann Ward Radcliffe, Bram Stoker, Arthur Conan Doyle, Joseph Conrad, Oscar Wilde, Lewis Carroll, Frances Hodgson Burnett, George Grossmith, Weedon Grossmith, H. G. Wells, Wilkie Collins, G. K. Chesterton, E. M. Forster, T. S. Eliot, James Joyce, George Bernard Shaw, W. B. Yeats, Sir Walter Scott, Robert Louis Stevenson, Kenneth Grahame, George MacDonald, J. M. Barrie584h 41m$2 · $0.00
Große Erwartungen (Kommentiert)Charles Dickens26h 32m$1 · $0.00
Klein-Dorrit (Kommentiert)Charles Dickens45h 20m$1 · $0.00
Children's Tales from Dickens – The Great Classics & The Wonderful Stories for Children (Illustrated Edition) (Annotated)Charles Dickens219h 46m$2 · $0.00
Charles Dickens: Weihnachtsgeschichten (Kommentiert)Charles Dickens24h 46m$1 · $0.00
Bleak House (Kriminalroman basiert auf wahren Verbrechen) (Kommentiert)Charles Dickens45h 43m$1 · $0.00
The Pickwick Papers (Annotated)Charles Dickens37h 24m$2 · $0.00
David Copperfield (Kommentiert)Charles Dickens45h 44m$1 · $0.00
Grandes Esperanzas (Anotado)Charles Dickens23h 52m$2 · $0.00
Charles Dickens: The Complete Novels (The Greatest Novelists of All Time – Book 1) (Annotated)Charles Dickens447h 4m$2 · $0.00
Oliver Twist + The Old Curiosity Shop: 2 Unabridged Classics, Illustrated (Annotated)Charles Dickens43h 57m$2 · $0.00
Dickens for Christmas (Illustrated Edition) (Annotated)Charles Dickens192h 4m$2 · $0.00
The Old Curiosity Shop (Annotated)Charles Dickens25h 40m$2 · $0.00
Weihnachten mit Charles Dickens: Der Weihnachtsabend, Doktor Marigold, Das Heimchen am Herde, Oliver Twist, Klein-Dorrit, David Copperfield und viel mehr (Kommentiert)Charles Dickens122h 50m$1 · $0.00
Bleakhaus (Kommentiert)Charles Dickens45h 40m$1 · $0.00
Great Expectations (Illustrated Edition) (Annotated)Charles Dickens73h 10m$2 · $0.00
Weihnachtsgeschichten (Kommentiert)Charles Dickens17h 7m$1 · $0.00
THE GREATEST DICKENS CLASSICS (Illustrated Edition) (Annotated)Charles Dickens336h 54m$2 · $0.00
Dickens-Klassiker (Kommentiert)Charles Dickens122h 57m$1 · $0.00
RiversnowTess Thompson8h 11m$20
Supreme ClienteleAshley & JaQuavis8h 58m$20
Body Refinement in a Beast Tamer’s World, Book 1Seth Ring14h 7m$27
EmberJeffrey Wilson, Brian Andrews13h 58m$23
The Complete Works of Jane Austen (Unabridged)Jane Austen88h 8m5.0 (1)$1 · $0.00
Desperate MeasuresBrenda Jackson8h 59m5.0 (1)$28 · $0.00
Searching For ThanksgivingS.E. Smith4h 24m$20
Naughty 4Brenda Hampton7h 30m$17
The Dance with Me TrilogyShelley Shepard Gray21h 44m$35
Anne Shirley (Complete 14 Book Collection)Lucy Maud Montgomery125h 28m$2 · $0.00
The DopemanJaQuavis Coleman5h 25m$20
Sherlock Holmes: The Ultimate CollectionArthur Conan Doyle59h 49m$5 · $0.00
WhistlerAnn Patchett10h 45m4.3 (18)$29 · $0.00
Grand Opening 2Carl Weber9h 16m$20
Sons of Valor II: Violence of ActionBrian Andrews, Jeffrey Wilson12h 34m$23
Malevolent MagicMildred Abbott7h 13m$17
Bikes, Toys, and Hot BoyzGenesis Woods, Shantaé13h 9m$23
This Side of Paradise - The Original 1920 Edition (Annotated)F. Scott Fitzgerald11h 30m$2 · $0.00
War LordBernard Cornwell13h 21m$33 · $0.00
Ghetto BastardK’wan7h 37m$20
You may also like
The Big Book of Christmas Novels, Stories, Myths & CarolsBjørnstjerne Bjørnson, 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, Charles Mackay, John Addington Symonds, Sophie May, Louisa May Alcott, Henry Van Dyke, Arthur Conan Doyle, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Andrew Lang, Frances Ridley Havergal, Alphonse Daudet, William John Locke, Walter Scott, Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, John Leighton, Booth Tarkington, Ralph Henry Barbour, Benito Pérez Galdós, Ruth McEnery Stuart, Alice Duer Miller, Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, Armando Palacio Valdés, William Morris, Anthony Trollope, Marcel Prévost, Rudyard Kipling, Beatrix Potter, Robert Herrick, Mary Hartwell Catherwood, Emily Dickinson, Bret Harte, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Meredith Nicholson, Lucas Malet, Ellis Parker Butler, Washington Irving, Isaac Watts, James Russell Lowell, Willa Cather, Nathaniel Hawthorne, James Whitcomb Riley, Thomas Nelson Page, O. Henry, Phillips Brooks, Saki, Cyrus Townsend Brady, William Makepeace Thackeray, Mary Stewart Cutting, Sarah Orne Jewett, François Coppée, Oliver Bell Bunce, Susan Coolidge, Samuel McChord Crothers, Maud Lindsay, Alice Hale Burnett, Walter Crane, André Theuriet, Amy Ella Blanchard, Isabel Cecilia Williams, Evaleen Stein, Nell Speed, Amanda M. Douglas, Edgar Wallace, George Wither, Booker T. Washington, Olive Thorne Miller, Margaret Sidney, William Douglas O'Connor, Vernon Lee, Anne Hollingsworth Wharton, Henry Vaughan, Eliza Cook, Kate Upson Clark, Ben Jonson, Ernest Ingersoll, Frank Samuel Child, Willis Boyd Allen, Georgianna M. Bishop, Edward Thring, F. L. Stealey, James Selwin Tait, Tudor Jenks, L. Frank Baum, C. N. Williamson, A. M. Williamson, J. M. Barrie, Eleanor H. Porter, Annie F. Johnston, Jacob A. Riis, S. Weir Mitchell, Elbridge S. Brooks, Edward A. Rand, W. H. H. Murray, Florence L. Barclay, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Harrison S. Morris, Robert E. Howard, Marjorie L. C. Pickthall, Sarah P. Doughty, Hans Christian Andersen, William Butler Yeats, Richard Watson Gilder, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anton Chekhov, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Mary Louisa Molesworth, Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Cecil Frances Alexander, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Margaret Deland, William Drummond, Robert Southwell, Reginald Heber, Alfred Lord Tennyson, George Macdonald, A. S. Boyd, Maxime Du Camp, Mary Austin, Juliana Horatia Ewing, Guy De Maupassant, Brothers Grimm, Clement Moore, Susan Anne Livingston, Ridley Sedgwick, Nora A. Smith, Phebe A. Curtiss, Nellie C. King, Lucy Wheelock, Aunt Hede, Frederick E. Dewhurst, Jay T. Stocking, Anna Robinson, Florence M. Kingsley, M. A. L. Lane, Elizabeth Harkison, Raymond Mcalden, F. E. Mann, Winifred M. Kirkland, Katherine Pyle, Grace Margaret Gallaher, Elia W. Peattie, F. Arnstein, James Weber Linn, Antonio Maré, Pedro A. De Alarcón, Jules Simon, Marion Clifford, E. E. Hale, Georg Schuster, Matilda Betham Edwards, Angelo J. Lewis, William Francis Dawson, Christopher North, Alfred Domett, Dinah Maria Mulock, James S. Park, Edmund Hamilton Sears, Edmund Bolton, C.s. Stone, Harriet F. Blodgett, John G. Whittier, Christian Burke, Emily Huntington Miller, Cyril Winterbotham, Enoch Arnold Bennett, John Punnett Peters, Laura Elizabeth Richards511h 2m$1 · $0.00
Christmas Candles (Annotated)Elsie Hobart Carter8h 19m$2 · $0.00
The Tailor of Gloucester (Annotated)Beatrix Potter2h 1m$2 · $0.00
A Christmas Greeting: A Series of StoriesH. C. Andersen3h 44m$1 · $0.00
The Complete Short Stories of Washington Irving: The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Tales of a Traveller, Bracebridge Hall, The Alhambra, Woolfert's Roost & The Crayon Papers (Illustrated) (Annotated)Washington Irving74h 56m$2 · $0.00
Grimoire GirlHilarie Burton Morgan6h 13m$24 · $0.00
Poemhood: Our Black RevivalAmber McBride, Erica Martin, Taylor Byas2h 23m$16 · $0.00
Old Hungarian Fairy TalesBaroness Emmuska ORCZY2h 22m5.0 (1)$7 · $0.00
The MesneviMaulana Jalal al-Din Rumi16h$1 · $0.00
The Garnet Story Book: Tales of Cheer Both Old and NewAda M. Skinner, Eleanor L. Skinner5h 37m$2 · $0.00
More English Fairy TalesJoseph Jacobs5h 9m$2.30
CHILDREN'S BOOKS – Premium Illustrated Collection: (Annotated)Kate Douglas Wiggin116h 46m$2 · $0.00
Peter Pan Adventures – Complete 7 Book Collection (Illustrated)Oliver Herford, Daniel O'Connor, J. M. Barrie19h 39m$2 · $0.00
Bantu Beliefs and Magic (Annotated)Charles William Hobley10h 42m$2 · $0.00
Songs from BooksRudyard Kipling4h 52m$1 · $0.00
The Night Before Christmas and Other Popular Stories For ChildrenVarious18m$1 · $0.00
The Night Before Christmas (Illustrated Edition) (Annotated)Clement Clarke Moore1h 47m$2 · $0.00
The Child's World: Third ReaderSarah Withers, Hetty Sibyl Browne, W. K. Tate3h 31m$2 · $0.00
The Book of CandlesLaurel Snyder14m$4 · $0.00
The Pearl Story BookMrs. Colman1h 4m$2 · $0.00