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The Big Book of Christmas: 140+ authors and 400+ novels, novellas, stories, poems & carols
If you were looking for the definitive Christmas anthology, consider yourself lucky, because you just found it!
This book is everything you want Christmas to be — loving, warm and celebratory. Timeless and adorable, beautifully designed, "The Big Book of Christmas" is a great big stocky book — stuffed with novels, novellas, short stories, poems, carols and songs.
Inside you'll find:
· Novels, novellas and short stories from Charles Dickens, Louisa May Alcott, Hans Christian Andersen, O. Henry, Lucy Maud Montgomery, E. T. A. Hoffmann, L. Frank Baum, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Leo Tolstoy, Henry Van Dyke, Oscar Wilde, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Anton Chekhov and many more!
· Poems, carols and songs from John Milton, Clement Clarke Moore, William Blake, W. B. Yeats, Rudyard Kipling, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, H. P. Lovecraft, George MacDonald, Emily Dickinson and many more!
This book is everything you want Christmas to be — loving, warm and celebratory. Timeless and adorable, beautifully designed, "The Big Book of Christmas" is a great big stocky book — stuffed with novels, novellas, short stories, poems, carols and songs.
Inside you'll find:
· Novels, novellas and short stories from Charles Dickens, Louisa May Alcott, Hans Christian Andersen, O. Henry, Lucy Maud Montgomery, E. T. A. Hoffmann, L. Frank Baum, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Leo Tolstoy, Henry Van Dyke, Oscar Wilde, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Anton Chekhov and many more!
· Poems, carols and songs from John Milton, Clement Clarke Moore, William Blake, W. B. Yeats, Rudyard Kipling, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, H. P. Lovecraft, George MacDonald, Emily Dickinson and many more!
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Published January 7, 2026
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Hans Christian Andersen
7,820 books3,545 followersHans Christian Andersen (often referred to in Scandinavia as H.C. Andersen) was a Danish author and poet. Although a prolific writer of plays, travelogues, novels, and poems, Andersen is best remembered for his fairy tales. Andersen's popularity is not limited to children; his stories — called eventyr, or "fairy-tales" — express themes that transcend age and nationality.
Andersen's fairy tales, which have been translated into more than 125 languages, have become culturally embedded in the West's collective consciousness, readily accessible to children, but presenting lessons of virtue and resilience in the face of adversity for mature readers as well. Some of his most famous fairy tales include "The Little Mermaid", "The Ugly Duckling", "The Nightingale", "The Emperor's New Clothes" and many more. His stories have inspired plays, ballets, and both live-action and animated films.
Andersen's fairy tales, which have been translated into more than 125 languages, have become culturally embedded in the West's collective consciousness, readily accessible to children, but presenting lessons of virtue and resilience in the face of adversity for mature readers as well. Some of his most famous fairy tales include "The Little Mermaid", "The Ugly Duckling", "The Nightingale", "The Emperor's New Clothes" and many more. His stories have inspired plays, ballets, and both live-action and animated films.
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August 6, 2020
If you are a lover of all things Christmas, and enjoy reading about holidays long ago - and written by authors of long ago - this book will be right up your alley.
Authors included in this book include, but not limited to: Lucy Maud Montgomery (one of my all-time favorite authors), Charles Dickens (if you haven't read Dickens, please start here), Rudyard Kipling, Emily Dickinson, Louisa May Alcott, and the list goes on and on - way too many to list here.
This book includes not only stories, but poems and novellas.
I admit there were a few that just didn't catch my interest, but that was ok too, because the next one invariably would. There is something for everyone in this book.
It's basically a one-book collection of holiday classics.
Authors included in this book include, but not limited to: Lucy Maud Montgomery (one of my all-time favorite authors), Charles Dickens (if you haven't read Dickens, please start here), Rudyard Kipling, Emily Dickinson, Louisa May Alcott, and the list goes on and on - way too many to list here.
This book includes not only stories, but poems and novellas.
I admit there were a few that just didn't catch my interest, but that was ok too, because the next one invariably would. There is something for everyone in this book.
It's basically a one-book collection of holiday classics.
December 29, 2020
Huge book of all things Christmas!
October 24, 2025
Beautiful, beautiful and magical book
January 6, 2021
A brilliant collection of short stories, perfect for reading one or two a night before Christmas. I received the kindle version and the Author/writer's names were not attributed to each of the stories, although the list of contributors was at the front of the book. For this reason I did not enjoy it, maybe, as much as I could have if I knew the Author while reading the story, so only 3 stars.
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