
Greatest Christmas Novels in One Volume
Victorian and Edwardian Tales of Holiday Wonder, Charity, Family, and RedemptionBy J. M. Barrie, Charles Dickens, Johanna Spyri, Louisa May Alcott, L. Frank Baum, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Lucy Maud Montgomery, George MacDonald, Mary Louisa Molesworth, Martha Finley, Abbie Farwell Brown, Anna Sewell, Hesba Stretton, Frances Browne, Kate Douglas Wiggin, Kenneth GrahameLength110h 54m
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Greatest Christmas Novels in One Volume gathers a capacious nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century tradition in which Christmas serves as both festive setting and ethical test. Across domestic realism, fairy tale, sentimental fiction, animal narrative, pastoral fantasy, and children's adventure, the collection examines charity, reconciliation, wonder, poverty, kinship, and social belonging. Its range is especially revealing: comic household scenes and fireside tales coexist with morally urgent depictions of hardship, while enchanted landscapes and youthful quests preserve the season's imaginative promise. The volume situates Christmas literature not as mere ornament, but as a versatile form for contemplating communal responsibility. The contributors represent a transatlantic and British constellation of major writers for children and adults, whose work shaped Victorian and Edwardian ideas of childhood, home, moral education, and fantasy. Their varied cultural settings—from industrial urban life to rural communities and dreamlike other worlds—bring the period's reformist, evangelical, domestic, and fairy-tale impulses into productive conversation. Collectively, these voices illuminate how seasonal storytelling responded to class division, changing family structures, and the expanding literary status of childhood. Ideal for students, scholars, and general readers, this anthology offers an unusually rich comparative encounter with Christmas as a literary tradition. Readers will find pleasure in its stylistic variety while gaining insight into the historical values, emotional registers, and enduring debates that animate these works. It invites sustained dialogue among narratives of generosity, loss, enchantment, and renewal.
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GenreGeneral Fiction
Length110 hrs 54 mins
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Publish dateNov 29, 2015
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Black Beauty (Annotated)
2Life and Adventures of Santa Claus (L. Frank Baum)
3YOUTH
41. Burzee
52. The Child of the Forest
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63. The Adoption
74. Claus
85. The Master Woodsman
96. Claus Discovers Humanity
107. Claus Leaves the Forest
11MANHOOD
121. The Laughing Valley
132. How Claus Made the First Toy
143. How the Ryls Colored the Toys
154. How Little Mayrie Became Frightened
165. How Bessie Blithesome Came to the Laughing Valley
176. The Wickedness of the Awgwas
187. The Great Battle Between Good and Evil
198. The First Journey with the Reindeer
209. "Santa Claus!"
2110. Christmas Eve
2211. How the First Stockings Were Hung by the Chimneys
2312. The First Christmas Tree
24OLD AGE
251. The Mantle of Immortality
262. When the World Grew Old
273. The Deputies of Santa Claus
28Christmas-Tree Land (Mary Louisa Molesworth)
29CHAPTER I. THE WHITE CASTLE.
30CHAPTER II. IN THE FIR-WOODS.
31CHAPTER III. THE MYSTERIOUS COTTAGE.
32CHAPTER IV. FAIRY HOUSEKEEPING.
33CHAPTER V. THE STORY OF A KING'S DAUGHTER.
34CHAPTER VI. THE STORY OF A KING'S DAUGHTER
35CHAPTER VII. A WINDING STAIR AND A SCAMPER.
36CHAPTER VIII. THE SQUIRREL FAMILY.
37CHAPTER IX. A COMMITTEE OF BIRDS.
38CHAPTER X. A SAIL IN THE AIR.
39CHAPTER XI. THE EAGLES' EYRIE.
40CHAPTER XII. A VISION OF CHRISTMAS TREES.
41I HOW JOHN HENRY OVERHOLT SAT ON PANDORA'S BOX
42II HOW A MAN AND A BOY FOUNDED THE LITTLE CITY OF HOPE
43III HOW THEY MADE BRICKS WITHOUT STRAW
44IV HOW THERE WAS A FAMINE IN THE CITY
45V HOW THE CITY WAS BESIEGED AND THE LID OF PANDORA'S BOX CAME OFF
46VI HOW A SMALL BOY DID A BIG THING AND NAILED DOWN THE LID OF THE BOX
47VII HOW A LITTLE WOMAN DID A GREAT DEED TO SAVE THE CITY
48VIII HOW THE WHEELS WENT ROUND AT LAST
49IX HOW THE KING OF HEARTS MADE A FEAST IN THE CITY OF HOPE
50Heidi (Johanna Spyri)