50+ Anthology of Christmas Stories and Poems. Classic Collection. Illustrated: A Merry Christmas by Louisa May Alcott, A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, A Letter from Santa Claus by Mark Twain, The Three Kings by Leo Tolstoy, The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame, The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry and others

Charles Dickens · G. K. Chesterton · L. M. Montgomery · L. Frank Baum · Mark Twain · Louisa May Alcott · Leo Tolstoy · Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · Nikolay Gogol · William Dean Howells · Joseph Rudyard Kipling · Elizabeth Harrison · John Milton · Hans Christian Andersen · Clement Moore · Henry van Dyke · Beatrix Potter · Anton Chehov · O. Henry · Hesba Stretton · Kenneth Grahame · Robert Louis Stevenson · Walter Scott · Alfred Tennyson · Abbie Farwell Brown · Anthony Trollope · Thomas Hardy · William Butler Yeats · William Makepeace Thackeray · Charles Kingsley · Ella Wheeler Wilcox · C. W. Stubbs · Eugene Field · Paul Laurence Dunbar · William Topaz McGonagall · Emily Dickinson

Oct 2022 · Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing

About this ebook

Enchanting, tragic, and hilarious fairy tales for adults and children grace these pages. An initial glance might lead you to assume that these are satirical versions of classic Christmas ghost stories. However, beneath the humorous stories involving ghosts, repentant sinners, miracles, and good peasants who find well-deserved happiness, lies a psychological undercurrent that sharpens the sense of intrigue and plot movement. Often this is aided by the unrelenting social exposure of the authors who always understood how intangible the “bourgeois paradise” truly was. Even today, idyllic dreams of tolerance, equality, and the triumph of justice have failed to materialize. Perhaps that is why people continue to read these classic stories while the snow falls outside and the lights glow on the Christmas tree.

Contents:

Charles Dickens

A Christmas Carol

The Chimes

G.K. Chesterton

A Christmas Carol

L.M. Montgomery

The Red Room

A Christmas Mistake

A Christmas Inspiration

The Josephs’ Christmas

Aunt Cyrilla’s Christmas Basket

The Osbornes’ Christmas

Bertie’s New Year

Ida’s New Year Cake

The Christmas Surprise at Enderly Road

Clorinda’s Gifts

The Falsoms’ Christmas Dinner

The Unforgotten One

Christmas at Red Butte

Uncle Richard’s New Year’s Dinner

L. Frank Baum

A Kidnapped Santa Claus

Little Bun Rabbit

Mark Twain

A Letter from Santa Claus

Louisa May Alcott

A Merry Christmas

Leo Tolstoy

A Russian Christmas Party

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Christmas Bells

The Three Kings

Nikolai Gogol

Christmas Eve

William Dean Howells

Christmas Everyday

The Pony Engine and the Pacific Express

Joseph Rudyard Kipling

Christmas in India

Elizabeth Harrison

Little Gretchen and the Wooden Shoe

John Milton

On the Morning of Christ's Nativity

Hans Christian Andersen

The Fir Tree

The Little Match Girl

Selma Lagerlof

The Holy Night

Clement Moore

The Night Before Christmas

Henry van Dyke

The Other Wise Man

Beatrix Potter

The Tailor of Gloucester

Anton Chehov

Vanka

O. Henry

The Gift of the Magi

Hesba Stretton

The Christmas Child

Kenneth Grahame

The Wind in the Willows

Robert Louis Stevenson

Christmas at Sea

Walter Scott

Christmas In The Olden Time

Alfred Tennyson

Ring out, wild bells

Abbie Farwell Brown

The Christmas Angel

Anthony Trollope

Christmas at Thompson Hall

Thomas Hardy

The Oxen

William Butler Yeats

The Magi

William Makepeace Thackeray

The Mahogany Tree

Charles Kingsley

Christmas Day

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Christmas Fancies

C. W. Stubbs

Twas Jolly, Jolly Wat

Eugene Field

Jest 'Fore Christmas

Paul Laurence Dunbar

A Christmas Folksong

William Topaz McGonagall

A Tale of Christmas Eve

Emily Dickinson

The Savior must have been a docile Gentleman