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A Budget of Christmas Tales - Twenty Classic Holiday Stories
Paperback
Classic FictionGeneral Fiction
ISBN13: 9781627554503
Publisher: Black Curtain Press
Published: Nov 23 2013
Pages: 228
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.52 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Gather around the fire for twenty timeless Christmas stories filled with generosity, wonder, repentance, family affection, supernatural visitation, and the enduring hope of the holiday season.
A Budget of Christmas Tales brings together beloved works by Charles Dickens, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Juliana Horatia Ewing, Irving Bacheller, Margaret E. Sangster, and other popular writers of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The collection ranges from famous literary classics to lesser-known stories of frontier settlements, New England homes, childhood wishes, old legends, unexpected visitors, and acts of kindness that transform both giver and recipient.
At the heart of the volume are several of Charles Dickens's most memorable Christmas works, including A Christmas Carol, The Chimes, The Christmas Goblin, and The Poor Traveler. Their visions of moral awakening, social responsibility, memory, and redemption are joined by stories that celebrate the warmth of family, the excitement of children awaiting Santa Claus, the hardships of lonely travelers, and the way Christmas can bring hope into difficult lives.
Offering an unusually generous selection in one volume, A Budget of Christmas Tales is ideal for family reading, holiday gatherings, classroom use, and anyone who enjoys traditional seasonal fiction. Some stories are humorous, some sentimental, some supernatural, and some deeply moving, but all reflect the belief that compassion, courage, fellowship, and renewed hope belong at the center of Christmas.
Included in This Collection:
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
The Christmas Babe by Margaret E. Sangster
A Western Christmas by Mrs. W. H. Corning
Joe's Search for Santa Claus by Irving Bacheller
Angela's Christmas by Julia Schayer
The First Puritan Christmas Tree by Anonymous
First New England Christmas by Hezekiah Butterworth
The Chimes by Charles Dickens
Billy's Santa Claus Experience by Cornelia Redmond
Christmas in Poganuc by Harriet Beecher Stowe
The Christmas Princess by Mrs. Molesworth
Widow Townsend's Visitor by Anonymous
The Old Man's Christmas by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
The Christmas Goblin by Charles Dickens
The Song of the Star by C. H. Mead
Indian Pete's Christmas Gift by H. W. Collingwood
My Christmas Dinner by Anonymous
The Poor Traveler by Charles Dickens
The Legend of the Christmas Tree by Anonymous
The Peace Egg by Juliana Horatia Ewing
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