Christmas Books and Stories

Our Christmas Books and Stories CD includes 46 books and 22 stories, including works by Dickens, Baum, O. Henry, Washington Irving, Saki, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Thackeray, and Booth Tarkington.

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Table of Contents

The Bible Story of Christmas

• Matthew
• Luke

Collections

• The Children's Book of Christmas Stories edited by Ada Don Dickinson and Ada M. Skinner
• Christmas Entertainments, containing fancy drills, acrostics, motion songs, tableaux, short plays, recitation in costume for children 5 to 15 by Alice M. Kellogg
• Good Stories for Great Holidays by Frances Jenkins Olcott
• The Night Before Christmas and Other Popular Stories for Children, 1903
• Our Holidays, retold from St. Nicholas (magazine), 1906
• Punch Among the Planets, special Christmas issue of the magazine Punch, 1890

Louisa May Alcott

• A Country Christmas (story)

T.S. Arthur

• The Christmas Party (story)

Berthold Auerbach

• Christian Gellert's Last Christmas (story)

Florence Barclay

• The Upas Tree, 1912

A.M. Barnard

• The Abbot's Ghost or Maurice Treherne's Temptation: a Christmas Story

(Lyman) Frank Baum (1856-1919)

• Kidnapped Santa Claus (story)
• The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus

Arnold Bennett

• The Feast of St. Friend

M. Betham-Edwards

• Holidays in Eastern France

Mary Stuart Boyd

• Versailles Christmas-Tide

Cyrus Townsend Brady

• And Thus He Came: A Christmas Fantasy, 1916
• A Little Book for Christmas, 1917

Abbie Farwell Brown

• The Christmas Angel, 1910

Robert Browning (1812-1889)

• Christmas Eve (poem)

Annie Roe Carr

• Nan Sherwood's Winter Holidays

Alphonse Chabot

• La Nuit de Noel dan Tous les Pays, (in French), 1912

Anton Chekhov

• At Christmas Time (story)

F. Marion Crawford

• A Little City of Hope: a Christmas Story, 1907

Coningsby Dawson

• Christmas Outside of Eden, 1922

Charles Dickens (1812-1870)

• The Chimes (story)
• A Christmas Carol
• The Cricket on the Hearth
• Some Christmas Stories

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

• The Christmas Tree and the Wedding (story)

Martha Finley

• Christmas with Grandma Elsie, 1888

John Fox, Jr.

• Christmas Eve on Lonesome and Other Stories

Bret Harte

•  The Christmas Gift That Came To Rupert: A Story For Little Soldiers (story)
• The Haunted Man: A Christmas Story (condensed novel)

Nathaniel Hawthorne

• The Christmas Banquet (story)

O.Henry

• A Chaparral Christmas Gift (story)
• Christmas by Injunction (story)
• The Gift of the Magi (story)
• Whistling Dick's Christmas Stocking (story)

Washington Irving (1783-1859)

• Old Christmas
• Christmas (short stories)
• Christmas Eve (story)
• Christmas Day (story)
• Christmas Dinner (story)_

M.R. James

• More Ghost Stories

Locke, William John (1863-1930)

• A Christmas Mystery: a Story of Three Wise Men

Alice Kellog

• Christmas Entertainments

Charles Kingsley (1819-1875)

• At Last: a Christmas in the West Indies

Shepherd Knapp

• The Christmas Dinner, 1921

Alice Duer Miller

• The Burglar and the Blizzard, 1914

Madame de la Ville de Mirmont

• Contes de Noel (in French), 1916

Meredith Nicholson

• A Reversible Santa Claus, 1917

Thomas Nelson Page

• Santa Claus's Partner, 1899

Theodore Parker

• Two Christmas Celebrations, AD 1 and 1855

Saki

• Bertie's Christmas Eve (story)
• Reginald on Christmas Presents (story)
• Reginald's Christmas Revel (story)

Elva Smith

• Christmas in Legend and Story

James Snowden

• A Wonderful Night

Robert Louis Stevenson

• A Christmas Sermon

Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896)

• Betty's Bright Idea and The First Christmas of New England

Ruth McInery Stuart

• Sonny a Christmas Guest

Booth Tarkington (1869-1946)

• Beasley's Christmas Party

William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863)

• The Christmas Books (writing as Michael Angelo Titmarsh)

Henry Van Dyke

• The First Christmas-Tree (story)
• The Story of the Other Wise Man
• The Lost Word: a Christmas Legend of Long Ago
• The Spirt of Christmas, 1911

Charles Dudley Warner (1829-1900)

• Altruism (essay)
• The Burden of Christmas (essay)

Kate Douglas Wiggin

• The Birds' Christmas Carol (story)

Mrs. Charles Woodbury

• The Potato Child and Others