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The Best of Christmas
Don't be a Scrooge--get in the holiday spirit with The Best of Christmas, a collection of classic books, poems and stories all centering around the most magical day of the year. Here you will find familiar favorites like A Christmas Carol and "Twas the Night Before Christmas," as well as holiday works by authors as diverse as L. Frank Baum, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anton Chekhov, Leo Tolstoy, and even Harriet Beecher Stowe. Ranging in length, style, and subject, these works provide a well-rounded Christmas feast, and a host of supplementals you're sure to enjoy.Included in The Best of Christmas • The complete text of thirty holiday classics, each elegantly formatted for ease of use and enjoyment on your Kindle reader.• Links to free, full-length audio recordings of the stories and poems in this collection.• An individual, active Table of Contents for each book accessible from the Kindle "go to" feature.• Perfect formatting in rich text compatible with Kindle's Text-to-Speech features.• A low, can't-say-no price!30 Tales & Poems of Holiday Cheer!Two poems and twenty-eight short stories and novellas, all centering around Christmas. Works • 'Twas the Night Before Christmas* with the classic illustrations by F.O.C. Darley!• 'Twas the Night After ChristmasDicken's Christmas • A Christmas Carol* with original illustrations by John Leech!• The Chimes• The Cricket on the Hearth• The Battle of Life• The Haunted Man and the Ghost's BargainShort Stories and • The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry• The Little Match Girl by Hans Christian Andersen• The Steadfast Tin Soldier by Hans Christian Andersen• The Fir Tree by Hans Christian Andersen• The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus by L. Frank Baum• Old Christmas by Washington Irving• The Elves and the Shoemaker by The Brothers Grimm• A Christmas Tree by Charles Dickens• The First Christmas Tree by Henry Van Dyke• The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle• At Christmas Time by Anton Chekhov• Christmas Cuckoo by Frances Browne• The Burglar's Christmas by Willa Cather• The Story of the Other Wise Men by Henry Van Dyke• What Christmas Is as We Grow Older by Charles Dickens• Christmas, or The Good Fairy by Harriet Beecher Stowe• How the Captain Made Christmas by Thomas Nelson Page• The Christmas Wreck by Frank R. Stockton• The Christmas Angel by Henry Van Dyke• Little Gretchen and the Wooden Shoe by Elizabeth Harrison• A Christmas Inspiration by Lucy Maud Montgomery• A Christmas Mistake by Lucy Maud Montgomery• Papa Panov's Special Christmas by Leo TolstoyAdditional Bonus FeaturesAlso included are special features for any elf or snowmaiden, • A Christmas Viewing a recommended viewing list of theatrical and television movies to get you in the mood for Christmas, including family favorites, classic Hollywood films, and stop-motion TV specials.
849 pages, Kindle Edition
First published October 27, 2013
About the author
Charles Dickens
13.3k books32.2k followersCharles John Huffam Dickens (1812-1870) was a writer and social critic who created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime, and by the twentieth century critics and scholars had recognised him as a literary genius. His novels and short stories enjoy lasting popularity.
Dickens left school to work in a factory when his father was incarcerated in a debtors' prison. Despite his lack of formal education, he edited a weekly journal for 20 years, wrote 15 novels, five novellas, hundreds of short stories and non-fiction articles, lectured and performed extensively, was an indefatigable letter writer, and campaigned vigorously for children's rights, education, and other social reforms.
Dickens was regarded as the literary colossus of his age. His 1843 novella, A Christmas Carol, remains popular and continues to inspire adaptations in every artistic genre. Oliver Twist and Great Expectations are also frequently adapted, and, like many of his novels, evoke images of early Victorian London. His 1859 novel, A Tale of Two Cities, set in London and Paris, is his best-known work of historical fiction. Dickens's creative genius has been praised by fellow writers—from Leo Tolstoy to George Orwell and G. K. Chesterton—for its realism, comedy, prose style, unique characterisations, and social criticism. On the other hand, Oscar Wilde, Henry James, and Virginia Woolf complained of a lack of psychological depth, loose writing, and a vein of saccharine sentimentalism. The term Dickensian is used to describe something that is reminiscent of Dickens and his writings, such as poor social conditions or comically repulsive characters.
On 8 June 1870, Dickens suffered another stroke at his home after a full day's work on Edwin Drood. He never regained consciousness, and the next day he died at Gad's Hill Place. Contrary to his wish to be buried at Rochester Cathedral "in an inexpensive, unostentatious, and strictly private manner," he was laid to rest in the Poets' Corner of Westminster Abbey. A printed epitaph circulated at the time of the funeral reads: "To the Memory of Charles Dickens (England's most popular author) who died at his residence, Higham, near Rochester, Kent, 9 June 1870, aged 58 years. He was a sympathiser with the poor, the suffering, and the oppressed; and by his death, one of England's greatest writers is lost to the world." His last words were: "On the ground", in response to his sister-in-law Georgina's request that he lie down.
(from Wikipedia)
Dickens left school to work in a factory when his father was incarcerated in a debtors' prison. Despite his lack of formal education, he edited a weekly journal for 20 years, wrote 15 novels, five novellas, hundreds of short stories and non-fiction articles, lectured and performed extensively, was an indefatigable letter writer, and campaigned vigorously for children's rights, education, and other social reforms.
Dickens was regarded as the literary colossus of his age. His 1843 novella, A Christmas Carol, remains popular and continues to inspire adaptations in every artistic genre. Oliver Twist and Great Expectations are also frequently adapted, and, like many of his novels, evoke images of early Victorian London. His 1859 novel, A Tale of Two Cities, set in London and Paris, is his best-known work of historical fiction. Dickens's creative genius has been praised by fellow writers—from Leo Tolstoy to George Orwell and G. K. Chesterton—for its realism, comedy, prose style, unique characterisations, and social criticism. On the other hand, Oscar Wilde, Henry James, and Virginia Woolf complained of a lack of psychological depth, loose writing, and a vein of saccharine sentimentalism. The term Dickensian is used to describe something that is reminiscent of Dickens and his writings, such as poor social conditions or comically repulsive characters.
On 8 June 1870, Dickens suffered another stroke at his home after a full day's work on Edwin Drood. He never regained consciousness, and the next day he died at Gad's Hill Place. Contrary to his wish to be buried at Rochester Cathedral "in an inexpensive, unostentatious, and strictly private manner," he was laid to rest in the Poets' Corner of Westminster Abbey. A printed epitaph circulated at the time of the funeral reads: "To the Memory of Charles Dickens (England's most popular author) who died at his residence, Higham, near Rochester, Kent, 9 June 1870, aged 58 years. He was a sympathiser with the poor, the suffering, and the oppressed; and by his death, one of England's greatest writers is lost to the world." His last words were: "On the ground", in response to his sister-in-law Georgina's request that he lie down.
(from Wikipedia)
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March 24, 2018
Good read, plenty of well loved classics.
February 13, 2017
One of my favs to read at Christmas time! Lots of feel good fuzzies!
December 26, 2014
While I haven't read all the stories in this book I'm finished for this year. Christmas stories belong to Christmas. The ones I read were classic and wonderful. There are quite a few more that I haven't read, some I'd never heard of before acquiring this book.
January 22, 2015
A collection of classic stories and poems about Christmas. There is even a list of Christmas movies at the end. Some of these stories I had never even heard of before.
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