The Ultimate Christmas Collection

The Ultimate Christmas Collection brings together the most celebrated festive stories from classic authors around the world, including Charles Dickens, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Leo Tolstoy, Washington Irving, Saki, Selma Lagerlof, Mark Twain, Louisa May Alcott, Anton Chekhov, James Joyce, and many more. Emma Gregory, Nathan Osgood, Barnaby Edwards, Jason Isaacs, Katherine Fenton, Ben Allen, David Rintoul, Jonathan Keeble, and Iwan Rheon read these tales that take us from snowy London to rural America, ice-cold Russia to the Scandinavian woods, and far beyond. The complete list of stories included here, in order of appearance, are: - A Child‘s Christmas in Wales, Dylan Thomas - A Christmas Carol, Samuel Taylor Coleridge - A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens - A Christmas Dream and How It Came True, Louisa May Alcott - A College Santa Claus, Ralph Henry Barbour - A Country Christmas, Louisa May Alcott - A Hint For Next Christmas, A. A. Milne - A Kidnapped Santa Claus, L. Frank Baum - A Letter from Santa Claus, Mark Twain - A Stolen Christmas, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman - At Christmas Time, Anton Chekhov - Beggar Boy at Christ‘s Christmas Tree, Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Behind The White Brick, Frances Hodgson Burnett - Blue Carbuncle, Arthur Conan Doyle - Christmas at Red Butte, Lucy Maud Montgomery - Christmas At Sea, Robert Louis Stevenson - Christmas at Thompson Hall, Antony Trollope - Christmas Banquet, Nathaniel Hawthorne - Christmas Bells, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Christmas Day in the Workhouse, George Robert Sims - Christmas Eve, Washington Irving - Christmas Jenny, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman - Christmas Storms and Sunshine, Elizabeth Gaskell - Christmas Trees, Robert Frost - Love Came Down at Christmas, Christina Rossetti - Markheim, Robert Louis Stevenson - Merry Christmas, Stephen Leacock - Music on Christmas Morning, Anne Bronte - Nutcracker and Mouse King, E. T. A. Hoffmann - Old Christmas, Washington Irving - On the Morning of Christ‘s Nativity, John Milton - Papa Panov‘s Special Christmas, Leo Tolstoy - Reginald on Christmas Presents, Saki - Reginald‘s Christmas Revel, Saki - The Battle of Life, Charles Dickens - The Burglar‘s Christmas, Willa Cather - The Chimes, Charles Dickens - The Christmas Cuckoo, Frances Browne - The Christmas Dinner, Washington Irving - The Christmas Story, from the King James Bible - The Cricket on the Hearth, Charles Dickens - The Dead, James Joyce - The Elves and the Shoemaker, Brothers Grimm - The Fire Tree, Hans Christian Anderson - The First Christmas of New England, Harriet Beecher Stowe - The Flying Stars, G.K. Chesterton - The Gift of Magi, O Henry - The Gospel According to Joan Mary, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman - The Holy Night, Selma Lagerlöf - The Ice Palace, F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Last Dream of the Old Oak Tree, Hans Christian Anderson - The Last Leaf, O Henry - The Legend of the Christmas Rose, Selma Lagerlöf - The Little Match Girl, Hans Christian Anderson - The Other Wise Men, Henry Van Dyke - The Set of Poe, George Ade - The Steadfast Tin Soldier, Hans Christian Anderson - The Tailor of Gloucester, Beatrix Potter - Twas the Night Before Christmas, Clement Clarke Moore - Vanka, Chekhov - Where Love is, God Is, Leo Tolstoy