The Big Book of Christmas

Hans Christian Andersen, Charles Dickens, Louisa May Alcott, Zenith Evergreen Literary Co., William Penn

• Publisher: Zenith Evergreen Literary Co.
• Year: 2025
• eBook ISBN: 9782386912474

Celebrate the spirit of Christmas with stories, songs, and memories that shine through the ages. The Big Book of Christmas gathers the greatest festive treasures into one spectacular collection. Featuring tales from Charles Dickens, Louisa May Alcott, Hans Christian Andersen, and more, plus beloved Christmas poems and carols, this anthology is the perfect companion for the holiday season. Whether you're cozying up by the fire, sharing holiday magic with children, or rediscovering the traditions that make Christmas unforgettable, this book will fill your heart with wonder, warmth, and joy. ? "The magic of Christmas lives in every story told, every song sung, and every memory shared." ? Why Families and Readers Love This Collection: Includes festive short stories, poems, carols, and Christmas traditions Perfect for fans of Charles Dickens, Louisa May Alcott, Hans Christian Andersen, and O. Henry Ideal for holiday reading, family storytelling, and Christmas gift-giving ? Light Up Your Christmas With the Greatest Stories Ever Told. Buy The Big Book of Christmas today and make this holiday season the most magical yet!

Table of contents

• Introduction
• The Earlier Celebrations of the Festival
• Novels
• Life and Adventures of Santa Claus (L. Frank Baum)
• Christmas-Tree Land (Mary Louisa Molesworth)
• The Little City of Hope (F. Marion Crawford)
• Peter Pan and Wendy (J. M. Barrie)
• Little Women (Louisa May Alcott)
• The Wonderful Wizard of OZ (L. Frank Baum)
• Little Lord Fauntleroy (Frances Hodgson Burnett)
• Christmas with Grandma Elsie (Martha Finley)
• Anne of Green Gables (Lucy Maud Montgomery)
• The Christmas Angel (Abbie Farwell Brown)
• At the Back of the North Wind (George MacDonald)
• Black Beauty (Anna Sewell)
• The Christmas Child (Hesba Stretton)
• Granny’s Wonderful Chair (Frances Browne)
• The Romance of a Christmas Card (Kate Douglas Wiggin)
• Wind in the Willows (Kenneth Grahame)
• The Birds' Christmas Carol (Kate Douglas Wiggin)
• The Wonderful Life - Story of the life and death of our Lord (Hesba Stretton)
• Oliver Twist (Charles Dickens)
• Happy Hearts (June Isle)
• The Doctor's Christmas Eve (James Lane Allen)
• Pollyanna (Eleanor H. Porter)
• Pollyanna Grows Up (Eleanor H. Porter)
• Children of the Tenements (Jacob A. Riis)
• The Tailor of Gloucester (Beatrix Potter)
• Little Prudy's Sister Susy (Sophie May)
• Little Peter: A Christmas Morality (Lucas Malet)
• Snap-Dragons or, Old Father Christmas (Juliana Horatia Ewing)
• Christmas Holidays at Merryvale (Alice Hale Burnett)
• The Ice Queen (Ernest Ingersoll)
• Miss Santa Claus of the Pullman (Annie F. Johnston)
• The Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe (Amanda M. Douglas)
• Little Maid Marian (Amy Ella Blanchard)
• Santa Claus's Partner (Thomas Nelson Page)
• The Upas Tree (Florence L. Barclay)
• Part I.
• Part II.
• Part III.
• Part IV.
• A Versailles Christmas-Tide (A. S. Boyd)
• At the Black Rocks (Edward A. Rand)
• The Man Who Forgot Christmas (Max Brand)
• Friendship and Happiness (Enoch Arnold Bennett)
• A Christmas Child (Mary Louisa Molesworth)
• Christmas: A Story (Zona Gale)
• A Reversible Santa Claus (Meredith Nicholson)
• Short Stories
• A Merry Christmas & Other Christmas Stories (Louisa May Alcott)
• The Gift of the Magi (O. Henry)
• The Fir Tree (Hans Christian Andersen)
• The Little Match Girl (Hans Christian Andersen)
• The Steadfast Tin Soldier (Hans Christian Andersen)
• The Snow Queen (Hans Christian Andersen)
• Betty's Bright Idea (Harriet Beecher Stowe)
• The First Christmas Of New England (Harriet Beecher Stowe)
• Deacon Pitkin's Farm (Harriet Beecher Stowe)
• The Holy Night (Selma Lagerlöf)
• Little Gretchen and the Wooden Shoe (Elizabeth Harrison)
• A Letter from Santa Claus (Mark Twain)
• The Christmas Angel (Abbie Farwell Brown)
• The Tale of Peter Rabbit (Beatrix Potter)
• Toinette and the Elves (Susan Coolidge)
• Christmas at Thompson Hall (Anthony Trollope)
• Christmas Day at Kirkby Cottage (Anthony Trollope)
• The Mistletoe Bough (Anthony Trollope)
• Not if I Know It (Anthony Trollope)
• The Two Generals (Anthony Trollope)
• The Princess and the Goblin & The Princess and Curdie (George MacDonald)
• Thurlow's Christmas Story (John Kendrick Bangs)
• A Little Book of Christmas (John Kendrick Bangs)
• Christmas Every Day (William Dean Howells)
• Jimmy Scarecrow's Christmas (Mary E. Wilkins Freeman)
• Little Girl’s Christmas (Winnifred E. Lincoln)
• The Elves and the Shoemaker (Brothers Grimm)
• Mother Holle (Brothers Grimm)
• The Star Talers (Brothers Grimm)
• Snow-White (Brothers Grimm)
• The Lost Word (Henry van Dyke)
• A Kidnapped Santa Claus (L. Frank Baum)
• The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood (Robinson Perrault)
• The Blue Bird (Madame d'Aulnoy)
• Christmas Every Day (William Dean Howells)
• Turkeys Turning the Tables (William Dean Howells)
• The Pony Engine and the Pacific Express (William Dean Howells)
• The Pumpkin Glory (William Dean Howells)
• Butterflyfutterby and Flutterbybutterfly (William Dean Howells)
• The Heavenly Christmas Tree (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
• Christmas Eve & Christmas Day - Ten Christmas stories (Edward Everett Hale)
• A Visit From Saint Nicholas (Clement Moore)
• Christmas - A Story (Zona Gale)
• The Story of the Other Wise Man (Henry van Dyke)
• Where Love Is, God Is (Leo Tolstoy)
• Christmas Roses (Anne Douglas Sedgwick)
• Christmas Stories (Edward Berens)
• The Nutcracker and the Mouse King (E. T. A. Hoffmann)
• A Christmas Carol (Charles Dickens)
• The Chimes (Charles Dickens)
• The Cricket on the Hearth (Charles Dickens)
• The Battle of Life (Charles Dickens)
• The Haunted Man (Charles Dickens)
• A Christmas Tree (Charles Dickens)
• What Christmas Is As We Grow Older (Charles Dickens)
• The Poor Relation's Story (Charles Dickens)
• The Child's Story (Charles Dickens)
• The Schoolboy's Story (Charles Dickens)
• Nobody's Story (Charles Dickens)
• The Seven Poor Travellers (Charles Dickens)
• The Holly-Tree (Charles Dickens)
• The Wreck of the Golden Mary (Charles Dickens)
• The Perils of Certain English Prisoners (Charles Dickens)
• A House to Let (Charles Dickens)
• The Haunted House (Charles Dickens)
• A Message From the Sea (Charles Dickens)
• Tom Tiddler's Ground (Charles Dickens)
• Somebody's Luggage (Charles Dickens)
• Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings (Charles Dickens)
• Mrs. Lirriper's Legacy (Charles Dickens)
• Doctor Marigold's Prescriptions (Charles Dickens)
• Mugby Junction (Charles Dickens)
• No Thoroughfare (Charles Dickens)
• Madelaine Tube and Her Blind Brother (Anne Ridley Sedgwick)
• A Christmas Inspiration and Other Stories (Lucy Maud Montgomery)
• Boreas Bluster's Christmas Present (Mrs. W. J. Hays)
• A Christmas Fairy (John Strange Winter)
• The First Christmas Tree and Other Christmas Stories (Eugene Field)
• A Christmas Greeting: A Series of Stories (Hans Christian Andersen)
• A Winter Nosegay, Being Tales for Children at Christmastide (Walter Crane)
• Susy Diller's Christmas Feast (Anonymous)
• The Thieves who couldn't Stop Sneezing (Thomas Hardy)
• Old Peabody Pew (Kate Douglas Wiggin)
• Kittyboy's Christmas (Amy Ella Blanchard)
• A Christmas Mystery (William John Locke)
• A Captured Santa Claus (Thomas Nelson Page)
• Tommy Trots Visit to Santa Claus (Thomas Nelson Page)
• Papa Panov's Special Christmas (Leo Tolstoy)
• Little Piccola (Nora A. Smith)
• The Legend of the "White Gifts" (Phebe A. Curtiss)
• Her Birthday Dream (Nellie C. King)
• The Shepherd's Story (Booker T. Washington)
• The Story of Christmas (Nora A. Smith)
• The Legend of the Christmas Tree (Lucy Wheelock)
• Little Jean (Francois Coppe)
• How the Fir Tree Became the Christmas Tree (Aunt Hede)
• The Magi in the West and Their Search for the Christ (Frederick E. Dewhurst)
• The Little Shepherd (Maud Lindsay)
• The Worker in Sandal wood (Marjorie L. C. Pickthall)
• The Shepherd Who Didn't Go (Jay T. Stocking)
• Paulina's Christmas (Anna Robinson)
• Unto Us a Child Is Born (Phebe A. Curtiss)
• The Star (Florence M. Kingsley)
• Christmas at Fezziwig's Warehouse (Charles Dickens)
• The Christmas Masquerade (Mary E. Wilkins Freeman)
• The Shepherds and the Angels (Bible)
• The Telltale Tile (Olive Thorne Miller)
• A Christmas Matinee (M. A. L. Lane)
• A Story of the Christ-Child (Elizabeth Harkison)
• Why the Chimes Rang (Raymond McAlden)
• The Birds' Christmas (F. E. Mann)
• The Little Sister's Vacation (Winifred M. Kirkland)
• Little Wolff's Wooden Shoes (François Coppée)
• Christmas in the Alley (Olive Thorne Miller)
• A Christmas Star (Katherine Pyle)
• The Queerest Christmas (Grace Margaret Gallaher)
• Old Father Christmas (J. H. Ewing)
• How Christmas Came to the Santa Maria Flats (Elia W. Peattie)
• Christmas in the Barn (F. Arnstein)
• The Philanthropist's Christmas (James Weber Linn)
• The First Christmas-Tree (Lucy Wheelock)
• Christmas in Seventeen Seventy-Six (Anne Hollingsworth Wharton)
• Christmas Under The Snow (Olive Thorne Miller)
• Master Sandy's Snapdragon (Elbridge S. Brooks)
• The Passing of Tony (Isabel Cecilia Williams)
• A Memorable Christmas Morning (Isabel Cecilia Williams)
• The Christmas Tree and the Wedding (F.M. Dostoyevsky)
• Vanka (Anton Chekhov)
• At Christmas Time (Anton Chekhov)
• The Mansion (Henry Van Dyke)
• A Bird in the Snow (Armando Palacio Valdés)
• A Christmas in the Forest (André Theuriet)
• The Louis-d'Or (François Coppée)
• A Christmas Supper in the Marais (Alphonse Daudet)
• The Princess and the Ragamuffin (Benito Pérez Galdós)
• A Tragedy (Antonio Maré)
• The Three Low Masses (Alphonse Daudet)
• The Poet's Christmas Eve (Pedro A. de Alarcón)
• The Yule Log (Jules Simon)
• The Mule and the Ox (Benito Pérez Galdós)
• Solange, the Wolf-Girl (Marcel Prévost)
• Salvette and Bernadou (Alphonse Daudet)
• Maese Pérez, the Organist (Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer)
• The Torn Cloak (Maxime du Camp)
• Who Ate The Pink Sweetmeat? (Susan Coolidge)
• The Whizzer (Mary Hartwell Catherwood)
• The Patroncito’s Christmas (F. L. Stealey)
• Cherry Pie (Kate Upson Clark)
• Bertie’s Ride (Marion Clifford)
• Asaph Sheafe’s Christmas (E. E. Hale)
• Around the Yule Log (Willis Boyd Allen)
• Whistling Dick's Christmas Stocking (O. Henry)
• Christmas by Injunction (O. Henry)
• The Perfect Gentleman (Edgar Wallace)
• On The Witney Road (Edgar Wallace)
• The Three Kings of Cologne (English Chronicle)
• The Three Christmas Masses (Alphonse Daudet)
• A Russian Christmas Party (Leo Tolstoy)
• Two Christmases (Georg Schuster)
• A Tale of a Turkey (Harrison S. Morris)
• Thrond (Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson)
• Christmas in the Desert (Matilda Betham Edwards)
• Christmas with the Baron (Angelo J. Lewis)
• A Christmas Miracle (Harrison S. Morris)
• The Wolf Tower (A Legend)
• The Peace Egg (Juliana Horatia Ewing)
• A Picture of the Nativity by Fra Filippo Lippi (Vernon Lee)
• Melchior's Dream (Juliana Horatia Ewing)
• Mr. Grapewine's Christmas Dinner (Harrison S. Morris)
• Christmas Eve (Guy de Maupassant)
• Bertie’s Christmas Eve (Saki)
• How Santa Claus Came to Simpson’s Bar (Bret Harte)
• The Christmas Gift That Came To Rupert (Bret Harte)
• "Golden Hope" Christmas (Robert E. Howard)
• The Christmas Guest (Selma Lagerlöf)
• Christmas Eve (Hamilton Wright Mabie)
• Christmas Dreams (Christopher North)
• Little Roger's Night in the Church (Susan Coolidge)
• Mr. Bluff's Experiences of Holidays (Oliver Bell Bunce)
• A Chaparral Christmas Gift (O. Henry)
• Three Christmas Trees (Juliana Horatia Ewing)
• A Country Christmas (Louisa May Alcott)
• Reginald's Christmas Revel (Saki)
• How the Captain made Christmas (Thomas Nelson Page)
• The Christmas Tree and the Wedding (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
• Christmas Storms and Sunshine (Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell)
• Two Christmas Eves(James Selwin Tait)
• Christmas Crackers: A Fantasia (Juliana Horatia Ewing)
• Beasley's Christmas Party (Booth Tarkington)
• The Lost Child (François Coppée)
• Sonny, A Christmas Guest (Ruth McEnery Stuart)
• The Christmas Porringer (Evaleen Stein)
• The Little Hunchback Zia (Frances Hodgson Burnett)
• The House With Sixty Closets: A Christmas Story (Frank Samuel Child)
• Miss Muffet's Christmas Party (Samuel McChord Crothers)
• Betty Leicester's Christmas (Sarah Orne Jewett)
• A Christmas Posy (Mary Louisa Molesworth)
• The Yule Log: A Series of Stories for the Young (Georgianna M. Bishop)
• Playing Santa Claus, and Other Christmas Tales (Sarah P. Doughty)
• The Animals’ Christmas Tree (John Punnett Peters)
• The Christmas Monks (Mary E. Wilkins Freeman)
• The Silver Hen (Mary E. Wilkins Freeman)
• Christmas Legends
• The Child Born at Bethlehem (Horace Elisha Scudder)
• Poems & Carols
• Silent Night
• Christmas Gifts and Other Poems (Carolyn Wells)
• The Night After Christmas (Anonymous)
• O Little Town of Bethlehem (Phillips Brooks)