Thanksgiving is an American tradition, celebrating the coming of autumn, the bounty of the harvest, the peaceful coexistence of the Pilgrims and the Native Americans, football, family -- and, of course, the obligatory celebration feast. Here are 35 tales celebrating Thanksgiving in all its forms, by classic authors you know and love (O. Henry, Harriet Becher Stowe, Nathaniel Hawthorne) and others who may be new to you.

Included are:

TWO THANKSGIVING DAY GENTLEMEN, by O. Henry

HENRY HERBERT'S THANKSGIVING, by W. H. H. Murray

JOHN NORTON'S THANKSGIVING PARTY, by W. H. H. Murray

ANN MARY: HER TWO THANKSGIVINGS, by Mary Wilkins Freeman

GRAND'THER BALDWIN’S THANKSGIVING, by Horatio Alger

SKINNY'S TURKEY DINNER, by Mary E. Marcy

EZRA’S THANKSGIVIN' OUT WEST, by Eugene Field

WHO ATE THE DOLLY'S DINNER? by Isabel Gordon Curtis

THE KINGDOM OF THE GREEDY, by P. J. Stahl

THANKFUL, by Mary Wilkins Freeman

BEETLE RING'S THANKSGIVING MASCOT, by Sheldon C. Stoddard

MISTRESS ESTEEM ELLIOTT'S MOLASSES CAKE, by Kate Upson Clark

THE FIRST THANKSGIVING, by Albert F. Blaisdell and Francis K. Ball

THANKSGIVING AT TODD'S ASYLUM, by Winthrop Packard

HOW WE KEPT THANKSGIVING AT OLDTOWN, by Harriet Beecher Stowe

WISHBONE VALLEY, by R. K. Munkittrick

PATEM'S SALMAGUNDI, by E. S. Brooks

MRS. NOVEMBER'S DINNER PARTY, by Agnes Carr

THE VISIT, by Maud Lindsay

BERT'S THANKSGIVING, by J. T. Trowbridge

JOHN INGLEFIELD'S THANKSGIVING, by Nathaniel Hawthorne

HOW OBADIAH BROUGHT ABOUT A THANKSGIVING, by Emily Hewitt Leland

THE WHITE TURKEY'S WING, by Sophie Swett

THE THANKSGIVING GOOSE, by Fannie Wilder Brown

AN ENGLISH DINNER OF THANKSGIVING, by George Eliot

CHIP'S THANKSGIVING, by Annie Hamilton Donnell

THE MASTER OF THE HARVEST, by Mrs. Alfred Gatty

A THANKSGIVING DINNER, by Edna Payson Brett

TWO OLD BOYS, by Pauline Shackleford Colyar

A THANKSGIVING DINNER THAT FLEW AWAY, by Hezekiah Butterworth

MON-DAW-MIN, OR THE ORIGIN OF INDIAN CORN, by H. R. Schoolcraft

A MYSTERY IN THE KITCHEN, by Olive Thorne Miller

AN OLD-FASHIONED THANKSGIVING, by Rose Terry Cooke

1800 AND FROZE TO DEATH, by C. A. Stephens

© 2014 Wildside Press (Rafbók): 9781479404537

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Rafbók: 25 november 2014