A Budget of Christmas Tales - Twenty Classic Holiday Stories

By Herbert W. Collingwood and Charles Dickens

Book Overview

Gather around the fire for twenty timeless Christmas stories filled with generosity, wonder, repentance, family affection, supernatural visitation, and the enduring hope of the holiday season.

A Budget of Christmas Tales brings together beloved works by Charles Dickens, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Juliana Horatia Ewing, Irving Bacheller, Margaret E. Sangster, and other popular writers of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The collection ranges from famous literary classics to lesser-known stories of frontier settlements, New England homes, childhood wishes, old legends, unexpected visitors, and acts of kindness that transform both giver and recipient.

At the heart of the volume are several of Charles Dickens's most memorable Christmas works, including A Christmas Carol, The Chimes, The Christmas Goblin, and The Poor Traveler. Their visions of moral awakening, social responsibility, memory, and redemption are joined by stories that celebrate the warmth of family, the excitement of children awaiting Santa Claus, the hardships of lonely travelers, and the way Christmas can bring hope into difficult lives.

Offering an unusually generous selection in one volume, A Budget of Christmas Tales is ideal for family reading, holiday gatherings, classroom use, and anyone who enjoys traditional seasonal fiction. Some stories are humorous, some sentimental, some supernatural, and some deeply moving, but all reflect the belief that compassion, courage, fellowship, and renewed hope belong at the center of Christmas.

Included in This Collection:

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

The Christmas Babe by Margaret E. Sangster

A Western Christmas by Mrs. W. H. Corning

Joe's Search for Santa Claus by Irving Bacheller

Angela's Christmas by Julia Schayer

The First Puritan Christmas Tree by Anonymous

First New England Christmas by Hezekiah Butterworth

The Chimes by Charles Dickens

Billy's Santa Claus Experience by Cornelia Redmond

Christmas in Poganuc by Harriet Beecher Stowe

The Christmas Princess by Mrs. Molesworth

Widow Townsend's Visitor by Anonymous

The Old Man's Christmas by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

The Christmas Goblin by Charles Dickens

The Song of the Star by C. H. Mead

Indian Pete's Christmas Gift by H. W. Collingwood

My Christmas Dinner by Anonymous

The Poor Traveler by Charles Dickens

The Legend of the Christmas Tree by Anonymous

The Peace Egg by Juliana Horatia Ewing

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1627554505
• ISBN13: 9781627554503
• Release Date: November 2013
• Publisher: Black Curtain Press
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"