A Literary Christmas: An Anthology

by Louisa May Alcott, Mark Twain, Charles Dickens

This incredible Christmas collection includes 12 stories and 9 poems from the most famous author of all time!
STORIES

Louisa May Alcott
A Christmas dream
A Christmas turkey, and how it came

L. M. Montgomery
The Josephs' Christmas

Elizabeth Harrison
Little Gretchen and Wooden Shoe

William Dean Howells
Christmas every day

Harriet Beecher Stowe
Christmas in Poganuc

Clement Clarke Moore
Twas the Night before A Visit from St. Nicholas

Charles Dickens
What Christmas is as we grow older
The child's story
The schoolboy's story
Nobody's story

Mark Twain
A Letter from Santa Claus


POEMS

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Christmas bells

Eliza Cook
Christmas Tide

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
A Christmas Carol

Anne Brontë
Music on Christmas Morning

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Ring Out, Wild Bells

William Makepeace Thackeray
The Mahogany Tree

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The Holy Night

Joyce Kilmer
Wartime Christmas

Rudyard Kipling
Christmas in India

Charles Dickens is mostly known for his great novels (Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, Hard Times, The Pickwick Papers, etc), but in the course of his life he has written several Christmas stories (scroll up to see the ones featured in this book). The same goes for Louisa May Alcott, author of Little Women, but also an incredible Christmas stories writer. And what about Rudyard Kipling? The author of 'The Jungle Book' was an incredible poet we have included 'Christmas in India' in the 'Poems' section of the book.Enjoy and Merry Christmas!

Genres: Christmas

175 pages, Kindle Edition

Published December 1, 2021

About the author

Louisa May Alcott was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet best known for writing the novel Little Women (1868) and its sequels Good Wives (1869), Little Men (1871) and Jo's Boys (1886). Raised in New England by her transcendentalist parents, Abigail May Alcott and Amos Bronson Alcott, she grew up among many well-known intellectuals of the day, including Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry David Thoreau, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
Alcott's family suffered from financial difficulties, and while she worked to help support the family from an early age, she also sought an outlet in writing. She began to receive critical success for her writing in the 1860s. Early in her career, she sometimes used pen names such as A.M. Barnard, under which she wrote lurid short stories and sensation novels for adults that focused on passion and revenge.
Published in 1868, Little Women is set in the Alcott family home, Orchard House, in Concord, Massachusetts, and is loosely based on Alcott's childhood experiences with her three sisters, Abigail May Alcott Nieriker, Elizabeth Sewall Alcott, and Anna Bronson Alcott Pratt. The novel was well-received at the time and is still popular today among both children and adults. It has been adapted for stage plays, films, and television many times.
Alcott was an abolitionist and a feminist and remained unmarried throughout her life. She also spent her life active in reform movements such as temperance and women's suffrage. She died from a stroke in Boston on March 6, 1888, just two days after her father's death.

Reviews

[Robin · Rating 5 out of 5]

I loved this book, finding it perfect to read all through the holiday season. I was familiar with many authors on the Contents page but not the works featured. Each was in turns comforting, nostalgic and inspiring. I plan to give this book as gifts next year and review my copy annually.