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
Length196h 24m
About this audiobook
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.
Audiobook details
Rating★★★★ 4.1 (11)
Includes Amazon
GenreGeneral Fiction
Length196 hrs 24 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateNov 19, 2017
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
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
Mostrar todos os capítulosVer menos
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
Three Ghost StoriesCharles Dickens2h 9m3.9 (2.4K)$6 · $0.00
Martin ChuzzlewitCharles Dickens43h 29m3.9 (23.8K)$1 · $0.00
Great ExpectationsCharles Dickens72h 27m4.0 (981.9K)$1.99 · $0.00
A Tale of Two CitiesCharles Dickens15h 20m4.1 (1.2M)$16 · $0.00
Great ExpectationsCharles Dickens28m4.0 (1M)$14 · $0.00
A Christmas CarolCharles Dickens3h 7m4.3 (1.1M)$5 · $0.00
Hard TimesCharles Dickens9h 45m3.7 (98.8K)$12 · $0.00
The Battle of LifeCharles Dickens3h 26m3.6 (16K)$10 · $0.00
A Christmas CarolCharles Dickens3h 14m4.3 (1.1M)$5 · $0.00
Eine WeihnachtsgeschichteCharles Dickens1h 10m4.2 (872.2K)$12 · $0.00
The Battle of LifeCharles Dickens3h 27m3.4 (2.3K)$12 · $0.00
Die Weihnacht des Ebenezer ScroogeCharles Dickens58m4.3 (4.7K)$10
Great ExpectationsCharles Dickens20h 5m4.0 (1M)$10 · $0.00
A Christmas CarolCharles Dickens3h 25m4.3 (1.1M)$10 · $0.00
A Christmas CarolCharles Dickens3h 9m4.2 (1.1M)$18 · $0.00
David CopperfieldCharles Dickens40h 32m4.2 (587.5K)$47 · $0.00
DICKENS: Sämtliche Romane & NovellenCharles Dickens490h 49m4.6 (163)$2 · $0.00
The Greatest Christmas Murder Mysteries & ThrillersCharles Dickens, Robert Louis Stevenson, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, George MacDonald, Arthur Cheney Train, Arthur Conan Doyle, Algernon Blackwood, Thomas Hardy, John Kendrick Bangs, Robert Barr, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Grant Allen, Wilkie Collins, O. Henry, Saki, Fergus Hume, Edgar Wallace, William Douglas O'Connor, Florence Marryat, Catherine Crowe, James Bowker, R. Austin Freeman, J. M. Barrie, E. F. Benson, G. K. Chesterton, Jerome K. Jerome, M. R. James, Fred M. White, Sabine Baring-Gould, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Frank R. Stockton, Louisa M. Alcott, Leonard Kip, Emmuska Orczy, Lucie E. Jackson, Katherine Rickford55h 32m$1.99 · $0.00
Weihnachts-Sammelband: Romane, Erzählungen und Gedichte für die Weihnachtszeit (Über 250 Titel in einem Buch) - Illustrierte AusgabeCharles Dickens, Goethe, Johanna Spyri, Agnes Sapper, Karl May, Theodor Fontane, Oscar Wilde, Selma Lagerlöf, Hans Christian Andersen, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Brüder Grimm, Martin Luther, Theodor Storm, Heinrich Heine, Peter Rosegger, E. T. A. Hoffmann, O. Henry, Ludwig Thoma, Manfred Kyber, Heinrich Seidel, Luise Büchner, Hermann Löns, Wilhelm Raabe, Georg Ebers, Adalbert Stifter, Paula Dehmel, Kurt Tucholsky, Walter Benjamin, Ludwig Bechstein, Rainer Maria Rilke, Clemens Brentano254h 53m4.4 (167)$2 · $0.00
Murder Mysteries for the Long Christmas NightCharles Dickens, Robert Louis Stevenson, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, George MacDonald, Arthur Cheney Train, Arthur Conan Doyle, Thomas Hardy, John Kendrick Bangs, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Grant Allen, Wilkie Collins, Saki, Fergus Hume, Edgar Wallace, William Douglas O'Connor, Florence Marryat, Catherine Crowe, James Bowker, R. Austin Freeman, J. M. Barrie, E. F. Benson, G. K. Chesterton, Jerome K. Jerome, Fred M. White, Sabine Baring-Gould, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Frank R. Stockton, Louisa M. Alcott, M.R. James, Leonard Kip, Emmuska Orczy, Lucie E. Jackson, Katherine Rickford, Bithia Mary Croker, Catherine L. Pirkis55h$1.99 · $0.00
WhistlerAnn Patchett10h 45m4.6 (4.6K)$29 · $0.00
Demon CopperheadBarbara Kingsolver21h 3m4.5 (949.4K)$46 · $0.00
To Kill a MockingbirdHarper Lee12h 18m4.5 (7.4M)$29 · $0.00
Remarkably Bright CreaturesShelby Van Pelt11h 17m4.4 (1.7M)$29 · $0.00
Desperate MeasuresBrenda Jackson8h 59m4.7 (670)$28 · $0.00
This Side of Paradise - The Original 1920 Edition (Annotated)F. Scott Fitzgerald11h 30m4.6 (1.6K)$2 · $0.00
War LordBernard Cornwell13h 21m4.6 (33.1K)$33 · $0.00
The Great Gatsby: Original 1925 Edition (An F. Scott Fitzgerald Classic NovelFrancis Scott Fitzgerald4h 45m4.6 (9.3K)$18 · $0.00
Something Like LoveBeverly Jenkins10h 21m4.6 (2.7K)$29 · $0.00
Black History CollectionFrederick Douglass, Harriet Ann Jacobs, Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois27h 9m4.6 (2.6K)$18 · $0.00
The Old Man and the Sea (Annotated)Ernest Hemingway4h 27m4.6 (1.4K)$2 · $0.00
White HotIlona Andrews13h 18m4.5 (136.9K)$5 · $0.00
The Ghost by the Billabong (The Matilda Saga, #5)Jackie French14h 58m4.6 (773)$33 · $0.00
Cast in BloodMichelle Sagara16h 35m4.6 (607)$33 · $0.00
The Captain Blood Trilogy (Annotated)Rafael Sabatini29h 20m4.6 (1K)$3 · $0.00
Ship of the Line (Annotated)Cecil Louis Troughton Smith11h 13m4.6 (1K)$2 · $0.00
The George Orwell CollectionGeorge Orwell24h 46m4.5 (14.4K)$12 · $0.00
Time RegainedMarcel Proust15h 38m4.5 (9.2K)$2 · $0.00
Driving ForceElle James4h 58m4.6 (407)$20 · $0.00
When God Calls the HeartBrian Bird, Michelle Cox3h 24m4.6 (439)$10 · $0.00
You may also like
The Story of My Boyhood and YouthJohn Muir9h 4m4.2 (2.8K)$1 · $0.00
The Tale of Jolly RobinArthur Scott Bailey1h 36m4.1 (310)$15
Be a ManThe Be a Man Guy3h 56m4.3 (256)$20 · $0.00
An American ChildhoodAnnie Dillard, Janet Stevens8h 28m3.9 (14.3K)$17
The Sex Lives of CannibalsJ. Maarten Troost8h 36m3.9 (32.1K)$17 · $0.00
The Autobiography of Charles DarwinCharles Darwin2h 25m4.0 (5.1K)$15
Adventures of Huckleberry FinnMark Twain10h 33m4.0 (1.4M) · 1959Free
Letters to His ChildrenTheodore Roosevelt4h 32m4.2 (258)$2.30
Flat Stanley's Worldwide Adventures #1: The Mount Rushmore CalamityJeff Brown39m4.0 (5.4K)$9 · $0.00
Edison: His Life and InventionsFrank Lewis Dyer21h 34m4.1 (378)Free
Flat Stanley's Worldwide Adventures #3: The Japanese Ninja SurpriseJeff Brown55m4.1 (3K)$11 · $0.00
The Trouble Begins at 8Sid Fleischman2h 59m4.0 (796)$15
Mark Twain: Wild Humorist of the WestMark Twain2h 15m$15
Sunk at SeaR. M. Ballantyne2h 51m$2.30
To Nuremberg and Back: A Girl's HolidayAmy Neally1h 33m$1 · $0.00
Personal Reminiscences and Some Short StoriesR. M. Ballantyne5h 34m$2.30
Learning Is Fun CollectionHighlights for Children2h 27m$15
Days in the OpenLathan A. Crandall5h 28m$2 · $0.00
Mark Twain; his life and work. A biographical sketchWilliam M. Clemens, Mark Twain4h 28m$1 · $0.00
No Map, Great Trip: A Young Writer's Road to Page OnePaul Fleischman2h 16m3.7 (88)$16 · $0.00