The Must-Read Novels for Christmas Time (Illustrated Edition)

Illustrated Victorian and Edwardian Tales of Wonder, Charity, Family, and Holiday HopeBy Charles Dickens, J. M. Barrie, Lucy Maud Montgomery, L. Frank Baum, George MacDonald, Anna Sewell, Louisa May Alcott, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Mary Louisa Molesworth, F. Marion Crawford, Martha Finley, Abbie Farwell Brown, Hesba Stretton, Frances Browne, Kate Douglas Wiggin, Kenneth Grahame, June Isle, James Lane Allen, Eleanor H. Porter, Jacob A. Riis, Beatrix Potter, Sophie May, Lucas Malet, Juliana Horatia Ewing, Alice Hale Burnett, Ernest Ingersoll, Annie F. Johnston, Amanda M. Douglas, Amy Ella Blanchard, Thomas Nelson Page, Florence L. Barclay, A. S. Boyd, Edward A. Rand, Max Brand

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The Must-Read Novels for Christmas Time gathers festive narratives in which winter becomes a setting for moral testing, domestic renewal, childhood wonder, and social reconciliation. Its illustrated format complements a striking formal range: sentimental realism, fairy tale, adventure, religious fiction, animal story, and comic domestic narrative. Across hearths, villages, schools, gardens, and snow-bound journeys, the volume places the familiar consolations of Christmas beside questions of poverty, generosity, belonging, and imagination. Standout episodes of transformation and seasonal enchantment reveal how holiday literature has long joined entertainment to ethical reflection. The contributors represent a broad Anglo-American literary culture extending from Victorian Britain through late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century popular fiction. Canonical novelists appear alongside major writers of children's literature, women's domestic fiction, social reform writing, regional romance, and fantasy. Their collective presence links the anthology to Victorian Christmas publishing, the rise of literature for young readers, and the transatlantic development of family-centered popular narrative. These varied voices enlarge Christmas beyond a single tradition, presenting it as a cultural occasion shaped by class, age, faith, locality, and social responsibility. This volume is especially recommended for readers seeking a capacious introduction to Christmas literature and its enduring conventions. It offers students and general audiences a valuable opportunity to compare styles, ideals, and emotional registers within one richly varied collection. Read together, these works invite rewarding dialogue between nostalgia and reform, fantasy and realism, private affection and public care.

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1Christmas at Thompson Hall & Other Christmas Stories by Anthony Trollope

2The Must-Read Novels for Christmas Time (Illustrated Edition)

3Life and Adventures of Santa Claus (L. Frank Baum)

4YOUTH

51. Burzee

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62. The Child of the Forest

73. The Adoption

84. Claus

95. The Master Woodsman

106. Claus Discovers Humanity

117. Claus Leaves the Forest

12MANHOOD

131. The Laughing Valley

142. How Claus Made the First Toy

153. How the Ryls Colored the Toys

164. How Little Mayrie Became Frightened

175. How Bessie Blithesome Came to the Laughing Valley

186. The Wickedness of the Awgwas

197. The Great Battle Between Good and Evil

208. The First Journey with the Reindeer

219. "Santa Claus!"

2210. Christmas Eve

2311. How the First Stockings Were Hung by the Chimneys

2412. The First Christmas Tree

25OLD AGE

261. The Mantle of Immortality

272. When the World Grew Old

283. The Deputies of Santa Claus

29Christmas-Tree Land (Mary Louisa Molesworth)

30CHAPTER I. THE WHITE CASTLE.

31CHAPTER II. IN THE FIR-WOODS.

32CHAPTER III. THE MYSTERIOUS COTTAGE.

33CHAPTER IV. FAIRY HOUSEKEEPING.

34CHAPTER V. THE STORY OF A KING'S DAUGHTER.

35CHAPTER VI. THE STORY OF A KING'S DAUGHTER

36CHAPTER VII. A WINDING STAIR AND A SCAMPER.

37CHAPTER VIII. THE SQUIRREL FAMILY.

38CHAPTER IX. A COMMITTEE OF BIRDS.

39CHAPTER X. A SAIL IN THE AIR.

40CHAPTER XI. THE EAGLES' EYRIE.

41CHAPTER XII. A VISION OF CHRISTMAS TREES.

42I HOW JOHN HENRY OVERHOLT SAT ON PANDORA'S BOX

43II HOW A MAN AND A BOY FOUNDED THE LITTLE CITY OF HOPE

44III HOW THEY MADE BRICKS WITHOUT STRAW

45IV HOW THERE WAS A FAMINE IN THE CITY

46V HOW THE CITY WAS BESIEGED AND THE LID OF PANDORA'S BOX CAME OFF

47VI HOW A SMALL BOY DID A BIG THING AND NAILED DOWN THE LID OF THE BOX

48VII HOW A LITTLE WOMAN DID A GREAT DEED TO SAVE THE CITY

49VIII HOW THE WHEELS WENT ROUND AT LAST

50IX HOW THE KING OF HEARTS MADE A FEAST IN THE CITY OF HOPE

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