The Greatest Christmas Stories of All Time - Premium Collection: 90+ Classics in One Volume (Illustrated)
90+ Illustrated Tales of Wonder, Charity & RenewalBy Louisa May Alcott, O. Henry, Mark Twain, Beatrix Potter, Charles Dickens, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Hans Christian Andersen, Selma Lagerlöf, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Anthony Trollope, Brothers Grimm, L. Frank Baum, George MacDonald, Leo Tolstoy, Henry van Dyke, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Clement Moore, Edward Berens, William Dean Howells
Length147h 58m
About this audiobook
This illustrated treasury gathers more than ninety Christmas classics into a capacious panorama of winter ritual, charity, childhood wonder, moral reckoning, and supernatural unease. Its contents range across fairy tale, realist sketch, domestic fiction, comic anecdote, devotional meditation, and Gothic fantasy, placing familiar seasonal consolations beside darker visions of poverty, loneliness, and redemption. Standout modes include enchanted journeys, haunted visitations, village scenes, and fables in which generosity reshapes private and communal life. The collection situates Christmas literature within the nineteenth-century development of the holiday as a powerful literary and cultural occasion. Its contributors represent an international constellation of writers whose work helped define modern popular storytelling. British, American, Scandinavian, Russian, German, and Danish traditions meet here through authors associated with realism, Romanticism, Victorian social critique, children's literature, folklore, and the literary fairy tale. The presence of canonical novelists alongside fabulists and short-story masters reveals how Christmas became a shared imaginative language, adaptable to different nations, classes, and spiritual outlooks. Recommended for students, families, and general readers, this volume offers an unusually broad encounter with seasonal writing in a single book. Its variety invites comparison among genres and cultures while illuminating enduring debates about compassion, faith, memory, social obligation, and delight. Readers will find both a rewarding introduction to classic literature and a rich dialogue among distinct festive voices.
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GenreGeneral Fiction
Length147 hrs 58 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 1, 2015
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Greatest Christmas Stories & Poems in One Volume (Illustrated)
2A Merry Christmas & Other Christmas Stories (Louisa May Alcott)
3Merry Christmas
4A Christmas Dream and How It Came True
5Becky's Christmas Dream
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6Kitty's Class Day
7Rosa's Tale
8Tilly's Christmas
9The Abbot's Ghost, or Maurice Treherne's Temptation
10Chapter I. Dramatis Personae
11Chapter II. Byplay
12Chapter III. Who Was It?
13Chapter IV. Feeding the Peacocks
14Chapter V. Under the Mistletoe
15Chapter VI. Miracles
16Chapter VII. A Ghostly Revel
17Chapter VIII. Jasper
18What the Bell Saw and Said
19The Gift of the Magi (O. Henry)
20The Fir Tree (Hans Christian Andersen)
21The Little Match Girl (Hans Christian Andersen)
22The Steadfast Tin Soldier (Hans Christian Andersen)
23The Snow Queen (Hans Christian Andersen)
24Story The First
25Second Story
26Third Story
27Fourth Story
28Fifth Story
29Sixth Story
30Seventh Story
31Betty's Bright Idea (Harriet Beecher Stowe)
32Scene I
33Scene II
34Scene III
35Scene IV
36Scene V
37Scene VI
38The First Christmas Of New England (Harriet Beecher Stowe)
39Chapter I
40Chapter II. The First Day on Shore
41Chapter III. Christmas Tide in Plymouth Harbor
42Chapter IV. Elder Brewster's Christmas Sermon
43Deacon Pitkin's Farm (Harriet Beecher Stowe)
44Chapter I. Miss Diana
45Chapter II. Biah Carter
46Chapter III. The Shadow
47Chapter IV. The Good-By
48Chapter V. Mother and Son
49Chapter VI. Gone to Sea
50Chapter VII. Thanksgiving Again
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