
The Santa's Big Book of Christmas Tales: 500+ Novels, Stories, Poems, Carols & Legends
A Treasury of 500+ Holiday Stories, Poems, Carols, Folklore & WonderBy Mark Twain, Beatrix Potter, Louisa May Alcott, Charles Dickens, O. Henry, William Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, Robert Louis Stevenson, Willa Cather, Arthur Conan Doyle, Nathaniel Hawthorne, H. H. Murray, Washington Irving, Lucy Maud Montgomery, George Macdonald, Leo Tolstoy, Henry Van Dyke, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, William Wordsworth, Alfred Lord Tennyson, William Butler YeatsLength540h 3m
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The Santa's Big Book of Christmas Tales gathers more than five hundred works into a capacious seasonal archive, where fiction, verse, carols, folklore, and legend illuminate Christmas as both sacred observance and imaginative cultural ritual. Its range moves from domestic sentiment and childhood wonder to ghostly unease, moral fable, comic reversal, and winter pastoral. Familiar Yuletide narratives stand beside poetic meditations and traditional songs, making the volume an unusually broad map of nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century Christmas literature. The collection convenes writers associated with Victorian realism, American Romanticism, children's literature, Gothic fantasy, transatlantic popular fiction, and major poetic traditions. Across these varied national and aesthetic backgrounds, the contributors reshape Christmas through questions of charity, memory, faith, family, social obligation, nature, and the supernatural. British, American, Canadian, Russian, and continental European voices together reveal how seasonal customs circulate across languages and literary movements while retaining distinctive local textures. Recommended for general readers, students, and collectors of holiday writing, this anthology offers the rare opportunity to encounter multiple genres and cultural perspectives in one volume. Its abundance encourages comparison: lyric and carol answer story and legend, while comic, devotional, and uncanny modes complicate one another. Readers will find both educational breadth and the pleasure of sustained seasonal reading, discovering Christmas anew through a rich dialogue among canonical and popular traditions.
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Includes Amazon
GenreGeneral Fiction
Length540 hrs 3 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateNov 26, 2020
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Alice's Christmas-Tree & Other Christmas Stories by Edward Everett Hale (Annotated)
2Preface
3Introduction
4The Origin and Associations of Christmas
5The Earlier Celebrations of the Festival
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6Novels
7Life and Adventures of Santa Claus (L. Frank Baum)
8YOUTH
91. Burzee
102. The Child of the Forest
113. The Adoption
124. Claus
135. The Master Woodsman
146. Claus Discovers Humanity
157. Claus Leaves the Forest
16MANHOOD
171. The Laughing Valley
182. How Claus Made the First Toy
193. How the Ryls Colored the Toys
204. How Little Mayrie Became Frightened
215. How Bessie Blithesome Came to the Laughing Valley
226. The Wickedness of the Awgwas
237. The Great Battle Between Good and Evil
248. The First Journey with the Reindeer
259. "Santa Claus!"
2610. Christmas Eve
2711. How the First Stockings Were Hung by the Chimneys
2812. The First Christmas Tree
29OLD AGE
301. The Mantle of Immortality
312. When the World Grew Old
323. The Deputies of Santa Claus
33Christmas-Tree Land (Mary Louisa Molesworth)
34CHAPTER I. THE WHITE CASTLE.
35CHAPTER II. IN THE FIR-WOODS.
36CHAPTER III. THE MYSTERIOUS COTTAGE.
37CHAPTER IV. FAIRY HOUSEKEEPING.
38CHAPTER V. THE STORY OF A KING'S DAUGHTER.
39CHAPTER VI. THE STORY OF A KING'S DAUGHTER
40CHAPTER VII. A WINDING STAIR AND A SCAMPER.
41CHAPTER VIII. THE SQUIRREL FAMILY.
42CHAPTER IX. A COMMITTEE OF BIRDS.
43CHAPTER X. A SAIL IN THE AIR.
44CHAPTER XI. THE EAGLES' EYRIE.
45CHAPTER XII. A VISION OF CHRISTMAS TREES.
46The Little City of Hope (F. Marion Crawford)
47I HOW JOHN HENRY OVERHOLT SAT ON PANDORA'S BOX
48II HOW A MAN AND A BOY FOUNDED THE LITTLE CITY OF HOPE
49III HOW THEY MADE BRICKS WITHOUT STRAW
50IV HOW THERE WAS A FAMINE IN THE CITY