The Greatest Thanksgiving Tales
Classic Holiday Stories of Gratitude, Family, Charity, and Moral ReckoningBy O. Henry, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Harriet Beecher Stowe, George Eliot, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Louisa May Alcott, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Eleanor H. Porter, Susan Coolidge, Andrew Lang, Eugene Field, Alfred Gatty, Edward Everett Hale, Alfred Henry Lewis, Nora Perry, Mary Jane Holmes, Sarah Orne Jewett, Ida Hamilton Munsell
Length19h 42m
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The Greatest Thanksgiving Tales gathers nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century fiction in which Thanksgiving becomes more than a calendar observance: it is a lens for examining kinship, charity, memory, abundance, deprivation, and national belonging. Its range extends from domestic realism and sentimental sketches to comic reversals, moral tales, children's literature, regional writing, and Gothic-inflected reflection. Stories of unexpected homecomings, strained family tables, and generosity across social divisions reveal how the holiday's ideals may console, challenge, or conceal inequity. The volume brings together major American and transatlantic voices alongside accomplished popular and juvenile writers, whose differing audiences and literary modes illuminate the holiday's broad cultural reach. Authors associated with reformist fiction, women's domestic writing, local-color realism, romance, humor, and the short-story tradition collectively situate Thanksgiving within debates about class, gender, childhood, social duty, and the post-Civil War imagination of community. Their varied perspectives demonstrate that holiday literature has long served as both cultural instruction and imaginative critique. Recommended for students, teachers, and general readers, this anthology offers an unusually rich opportunity to compare styles and ethical visions within a single seasonal frame. It rewards attentive reading with historical insight, literary variety, and a sustained dialogue between celebratory custom and the complicated realities it seeks to address.
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GenreGeneral Fiction
Length19 hrs 42 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateNov 7, 2017
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Twenty-Five Cent Dinners for Families of Six (Annotated)
2An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving (Louisa May Alcott)
3CHAPTER I. GENEALOGY AND PARENTAGE.
4CHAPTER II. CHILDHOOD.
5CHAPTER III. FRUITLANDS.
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6CHAPTER IV. THE SENTIMENTAL PERIOD.
7CHAPTER V. AUTHORSHIP.
8CHAPTER VI. THE YEAR OF GOOD LUCK.
9CHAPTER VII. HOSPITAL SKETCHES.
10CHAPTER VIII. EUROPE AND LITTLE WOMEN.
11CHAPTER IX. EUROPE.
12CHAPTER X. FAMILY CHANGES.
13CHAPTER XI. LAST YEARS.
14CHAPTER XII. CONCLUSION.
15Aunt Susanna's Thanksgiving Dinner (Lucy Maud Montgomery)
16The Genesis of the Doughnut Club (Lucy Maud Montgomery)
17Two Thanksgiving Day Gentlemen (O. Henry)
18The Purple Dress (O. Henry)
19An English Dinner of Thanksgiving (George Eliot)
20Ezra's Thanksgivin' Out West (Eugene Field)
21Three Thanksgivings (Charlotte Perkins Gilman)
22John Inglefield's Thanksgiving (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
23Helen's Thanksgiving (Susan Coolidge)
24Thanksgiving at the Polls (Edward Everett Hale)
25I
26II
27III
28IV
29V
30VI
31VII
32Millionaire Mike's Thanksgiving (Eleanor H. Porter)
33The Thanksgiving of the Wazir (Andrew Lang)
34The Master of the Harvest (Mrs. Alfred Gatty)
35A Wolfville Thanksgiving (Alfred Henry Lewis)
36How We Kept Thanksgiving at Oldtown (Harriet Beecher Stowe)
37The Thanksgiving Guest (Nora Perry)
38CHAPTER I.
39CHAPTER II.
40The Thanksgiving Party and its Consequences (Mary Jane Holmes)
41CHAPTER I. NIGHT BEFORE THANKSGIVING.
42CHAPTER II. THANKSGIVING DAY.
43CHAPTER III. ADA HARCOURT.
44CHAPTER IV. LUCY.
45CHAPTER V. UNCLE ISRAEL.
46CHAPTER VI. EXPLANATION.
47CHAPTER VII. A MANEUVER.
48CHAPTER VIII. COUSIN BERINTHA AND LUCY'S PARTY.
49CHAPTER IX. A WEDDING AT ST. LUKE'S.
50CHAPTER X. A SURPRISE.
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