
The Greatest Christmas Stories & Poems in One Volume (Illustrated)
An Illustrated Treasury of Classic Holiday Tales, Poems, Wonder, and GenerosityBy Louisa May Alcott, O. Henry, Mark Twain, Beatrix Potter, Charles Dickens, Emily Dickinson, Walter Scott, 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, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Edward Berens, William Dean Howells, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, William Wordsworth, Alfred Lord Tennyson, William Butler Yeats, Clement MooreLength149h 30m
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The Greatest Christmas Stories & Poems in One Volume (Illustrated) gathers a capacious nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century Christmas tradition: domestic realism, fairy tale, moral fable, ghostly fantasy, devotional verse, and children's literature converge around generosity, memory, wonder, and social responsibility. Its range extends from intimate household scenes and comic reversals to winter landscapes, supernatural visitations, and enduring seasonal poems. The illustrations deepen this archival, family-centered reading experience while also preserving the visual culture associated with holiday gift books and fireside reading. Its contributors represent an unusually broad transatlantic and European constellation of writers, including major Victorian novelists, American poets and humorists, Scandinavian fabulists, Russian realists, German Romantics, and the folkloric tradition preserved by the Brothers Grimm. Together, these voices place Christmas at the meeting point of Romantic imagination, Victorian sentiment, moral reform, folklore, and the rise of literature written for children. Their differing national, religious, and aesthetic inheritances reveal the season not as a single custom but as a rich literary language for addressing poverty, childhood, family, faith, and renewal. Ideal for students, general readers, and seasonal rereaders alike, this volume offers the rare opportunity to trace dialogues among poems, tales, and literary traditions within one accessible collection. It rewards close reading for its historical breadth, formal variety, and enduring reflections on communal care and imaginative hope.
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GenreGeneral Fiction
Length149 hrs 30 mins
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FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 2, 2015
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1A Little Book of Christmas (Unabridged) (Annotated)
2Short Stories
3A Merry Christmas & Other Christmas Stories (Louisa May Alcott)
4Merry Christmas
5A Christmas Dream and How It Came True
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6Becky's Christmas Dream
7Kitty's Class Day
8Rosa's Tale
9Tilly's Christmas
10The Abbot's Ghost, or Maurice Treherne's Temptation
11Chapter I. Dramatis Personae
12Chapter II. Byplay
13Chapter III. Who Was It?
14Chapter IV. Feeding the Peacocks
15Chapter V. Under the Mistletoe
16Chapter VI. Miracles
17Chapter VII. A Ghostly Revel
18Chapter VIII. Jasper
19What the Bell Saw and Said
20The Gift of the Magi (O. Henry)
21The Fir Tree (Hans Christian Andersen)
22The Little Match Girl (Hans Christian Andersen)
23The Steadfast Tin Soldier (Hans Christian Andersen)
24The Snow Queen (Hans Christian Andersen)
25Story The First
26Second Story
27Third Story
28Fourth Story
29Fifth Story
30Sixth Story
31Seventh Story
32Betty's Bright Idea (Harriet Beecher Stowe)
33Scene I
34Scene II
35Scene III
36Scene IV
37Scene V
38Scene VI
39The First Christmas Of New England (Harriet Beecher Stowe)
40Chapter I
41Chapter II. The First Day on Shore
42Chapter III. Christmas Tide in Plymouth Harbor
43Chapter IV. Elder Brewster's Christmas Sermon
44Deacon Pitkin's Farm (Harriet Beecher Stowe)
45Chapter I. Miss Diana
46Chapter II. Biah Carter
47Chapter III. The Shadow
48Chapter IV. The Good-By
49Chapter V. Mother and Son
50Chapter VI. Gone to Sea