The Greatest Christmas Tales & Poems in One Volume (Illustrated)
An Illustrated Treasury of Classic Holiday Stories, Poems, Fairy Tales, and Fireside WondersBy Louisa May Alcott, Mark Twain, O. Henry, 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 Moore
Length178h 38m
About this audiobook
The Greatest Christmas Tales & Poems in One Volume (Illustrated) gathers a capacious international canon of seasonal writing, where fairy tale, ghost story, domestic sketch, moral fable, lyric meditation, and children's fantasy meet. Its range extends from hearth-centered narratives of charity and reconciliation to wintry visions of wonder, loss, faith, and the supernatural. Familiar landmarks of Christmas literature stand beside lesser-expected poetic and folkloric selections, while illustrations deepen the volume's appeal as both a reading experience and a cultural keepsake. The contributors represent a remarkable convergence of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century literary traditions: British and American realism, Romantic and Victorian poetry, Scandinavian legend, Russian moral fiction, German fantasy, and the oral traditions preserved in fairy tales. Novelists, poets, folklorists, and writers for young readers collectively reveal Christmas as more than a religious observance or festive setting. Across their varied national and aesthetic backgrounds, the season becomes a vehicle for social conscience, childhood imagination, communal memory, and ethical renewal. This anthology is especially recommended for readers seeking a broad, historically informed encounter with Christmas literature in a single volume. Its multiplicity of forms and voices invites comparison across cultures and generations, making it valuable for classroom study, family reading, and private seasonal reflection. Readers will find both enduring pleasure and a rich dialogue about generosity, wonder, tradition, and human fellowship.
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Rating★★★ 3.0 (12)
Includes Goodreads
GenreGeneral Fiction
Length178 hrs 38 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 9, 2016
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Greatest Christmas Stories of All Time - Premium Collection: 90+ Classics in One Volume (Illustrated)
2The Greatest Christmas Tales & Poems in One Volume (Illustrated)
3Christmas Tales
4A Merry Christmas & Other Christmas Stories (Louisa May Alcott)
5Merry Christmas
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6A Christmas Dream and How It Came True
7Becky's Christmas Dream
8Kitty's Class Day
9Rosa's Tale
10Tilly's Christmas
11The Abbot's Ghost, or Maurice Treherne's Temptation
12Chapter I. Dramatis Personae
13Chapter II. Byplay
14Chapter III. Who Was It?
15Chapter IV. Feeding the Peacocks
16Chapter V. Under the Mistletoe
17Chapter VI. Miracles
18Chapter VII. A Ghostly Revel
19Chapter VIII. Jasper
20What the Bell Saw and Said
21The Gift of the Magi (O. Henry)
22The Fir Tree (Hans Christian Andersen)
23The Little Match Girl (Hans Christian Andersen)
24The Steadfast Tin Soldier (Hans Christian Andersen)
25The Snow Queen (Hans Christian Andersen)
26Story The First
27Second Story
28Third Story
29Fourth Story
30Fifth Story
31Sixth Story
32Seventh Story
33Betty's Bright Idea (Harriet Beecher Stowe)
34Scene I
35Scene II
36Scene III
37Scene IV
38Scene V
39Scene VI
40The First Christmas Of New England (Harriet Beecher Stowe)
41Chapter I
42Chapter II. The First Day on Shore
43Chapter III. Christmas Tide in Plymouth Harbor
44Chapter IV. Elder Brewster's Christmas Sermon
45Deacon Pitkin's Farm (Harriet Beecher Stowe)
46Chapter I. Miss Diana
47Chapter II. Biah Carter
48Chapter III. The Shadow
49Chapter IV. The Good-By
50Chapter V. Mother and Son
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