This carefully edited collection of Christmas tales, short stories, myths and legends has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices.
Table of Contents:
Louisa May Alcott:
Merry Christmas
A Christmas Dream and How It Came True
Becky's Christmas Dream
Kitty's Class Day
Rosa's Tale
Tilly's Christmas
The Abbot's Ghost, or Maurice Treherne's Temptation
What the Bell Saw and Said
A Christmas Turkey, and How It Came
The Little Red Purse
A Country Christmas
O. Henry:
The Gift of the Magi
Whistling Dick's Christmas Stocking
Christmas by Injunction
A Chaparral Christmas Gift
Hans Christian Andersen:
The Little Match Girl
The Steadfast Tin Soldier
The Snow Queen
The Old House
The Drop of Water
The Happy Family
The Story of a Mother
The False Collar
The Shadow
The Old Street-lamp
The Dream of Little Tuk
The Naughty Boy
The Two Neighboring Families
The Darning-needle
The Red Shoes
Selma Lagerlöf:
The Holy Night
The Christmas Guest
The Flight Into Egypt
The Legend of the Christmas Rose
Harriet Beecher Stowe:
Betty's Bright Idea
The First Christmas Of New England
Deacon Pitkin's Farm
Charles Dickens:
A Christmas Carol
The Chimes
The Cricket on the Hearth
The Battle of Life
The Haunted Man
A Christmas Tree
What Christmas Is As We Grow Older
The Poor Relation's Story
The Child's Story
The Schoolboy's Story
Nobody's Story
The Seven Poor Travellers
The Holly-Tree
The Wreck of the Golden Mary
The Perils of Certain English Prisoners
A House to Let
The Haunted House
A Message From the Sea
Tom Tiddler's Ground
Somebody's Luggage
Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings
Mrs. Lirriper's Legacy
Doctor Marigold's Prescriptions
Mugby Junction
No Thoroughfare
Christmas at Fezziwig's Warehouse
Thomas Nelson Page:
Santa Claus's Partner
A Captured Santa Claus
Tommy Trots Visit to Santa Claus
How the Captain made Christmas
Anthony Trollope:
Christmas at Thompson Hall
Christmas Day at Kirkby Cottage
The Mistletoe Bough
Not if I Know It
The Two Generals
William Dean Howells:
Christmas Every Day
Turkeys Turning the Tables
The Pony Engine and the Pacific Express
The Pumpkin Glory…
