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Christmas Potpourri: Holiday Etexts 
The Web is a winter wonderland of holiday etexts! Join the Cratchits and Ebenezer Scrooge in Victorian London, or the March family in Civil War-era New England. Share in the celebrations of the Peppers or the Peterkins, the Bobbseys or the Birds. Take another look at Francis Pharcellus Church's stirring defense of Santa Claus's existence, then enjoy L. Frank Baum's biography of Santa and Clement Clarke Moore's classic poem about Santa's nocturnal visit.
Maybe you're looking for some less familiar stories and poems--those half-remembered old-time tales and legends that evoke memories of childhood and simple pleasures. You can rediscover many of them on the Web too. Whatever you're in the mood for at Christmastime--whether it be sentimentality, horror, realism, mystery, ghost stories, fables, legends, history, romance--you can probably find it on the Web. So get yourself a cup of hot cocoa to sip and a few Christmas cookies to nibble, and start to explore a world of holiday stories from authors ranging from Charles Dickens to O. Henry, from Beatrix Potter to Damon Runyon, from F. Scott Fitzgerald to Leo Tolstoy. Happy holidays!
Louisa May Alcott - Raymond MacDonald Alden - Horatio Alger - Raymund Allen - Hans Christian Andersen - F. Antsey - Flora Arnstein - Author Unknown  Louisa May Alcott"A Hospital Christmas" (originally published in Commonwealth, January 8 and 15, 1864), from Hospital Sketches, and Camp and Fireside Stories, 1869 "Mrs. Podgers' Teapot: A Christmas Story" (originally published in Saturday Evening Gazette, December 24, 1864), from Hospital Sketches, and Camp and Fireside Stories, 1869 The Abbot's Ghost, or Maurice Treherne's Temptation: A Christmas Story, 1867 "A Merry Christmas," from Little Women, or Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy (Part 1), 1868 "Pleasant Meadows," from Little Women, or Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy (Part 1), 1868 "Under the Mistletoe," from Eight Cousins, or The Aunt-Hill, 1875 "A Country Christmas," from Kitty's Class Day and Other Stories (originally published as Proverb Stories), 1882 "A Christmas Dream" (poem), from "A Christmas Dream, and How It Came True," Harper's Young People, December 1882 "Dan's Christmas," from Jo's Boys and How They Turned Out: A Sequel to "Little Men," 1886 Raymond MacDonald Alden"Why the Chimes Rang," from Why the Chimes Rang and Other Stories, 1906 "In the Great Walled Country," from Why the Chimes Rang and Other Stories, 1906 Horatio Alger"The Christmas Gift," from Gleason's Pictorial, December 1854 "Bertha's Christmas Vision," from Bertha's Christmas Vision, 1856 "Job Warner's Christmas," from Harper's New Monthly Magazine, December 1863 "St. Nicholas" (poem), from Ballads, 1875 Raymund Allen"A Happy Solution," from The Strand, 1916 Hans Christian Andersen"The Brave Tin Soldier," 1838 "The Fir Tree," 1845 "The Snow Queen," 1845 "The Little Match-Seller," 1846 "The Goblin and the Huckster," 1853 "The Snow Man," 1861 F. Anstey"The Curse of the Catafalques," from Cornhill Magazine, August 1882 Flora Arnstein"Christmas in the Barn" (originally published in In the Child's World by Emilie Poulsson, 1919), from The Children's Book of Christmas Stories, edited by Asa Don Dickinson and Ada M. Skinner, 1926 Author Unknown"The Friendly Beasts" (traditional Christmas carol) "I Saw Three Ships" (poem, originally published in 1666), from Christmas Carols, Ancient and Modern, edited by William Sandys, 1833 "God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen" (poem), from Christmas Carols, Ancient and Modern, edited by William Sandys, 1833 "Christmas in California" (poem), from Cinderella, or The Little Glass Slipper and Other Stories, 1905 "Cured of Carelessness," from Cinderella, or The Little Glass Slipper and Other Stories, 1905 "Mama's Happy Christmas," from Cinderella, or The Little Glass Slipper and Other Stories, 1905 "Stringing Cranberries," from Cinderella, or The Little Glass Slipper and Other Stories, 1905 "Little Piccola," from Good Stories for Great Holidays, edited by Frances Jenkins Olcott, 1914 "The Shepherds and the Angels," from The Children's Book of Christmas Stories, edited by Asa Don Dickinson and Ada M. Skinner, 1926
John Kendrick Bangs - L. Frank Baum - Thomas Haynes Bayley - Algernon Blackwood - Edward William Bok - James Topham Brady - H. R. Bramley and John Stainer - Elbridge S. Brooks - Frances Browne - Robert Browning - Valerie Bryusov - Sara Cone Bryant - Pearl S. Buck - Oliver Bell Bunce John Kendrick Bangs"The Water Ghost of Harrowby Hall," from Harper's Weekly, June 1891 L. Frank BaumThe Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, 1902 A Kidnapped Santa Claus, 1904 Thomas Haynes Bayley"The Mistletoe Bough" (poem), 1884 Algernon Blackwood"Transition" (also known as "Mudbury's Xmas Adventure"), from New Witness, December 1913 Edward William Bok"The President and the Boy," from The Americanization of Edward Bok: The Autobiography of a Dutch Boy Fifty Years After, 1921 James Topham BradyA Christmas Dream, 1860 H. R. Bramley and John Stainer, editorsChristmas Carols New and Old, 1871 Elbridge S. Brooks"Master Sandy's Snapdragon" (originally published in Wide Awake, 1894?), from The Children's Book of Christmas Stories, edited by Asa Don Dickinson and Ada M. Skinner, 1926 Frances Browne"The Christmas Cuckoo," from Granny's Wonderful Chair, 1857 Robert Browning"Christmas Eve," from Christmas Eve and Easter Day, 1850 Valerie Bryusov"Protection: A Christmas Story," from The Republic of the Southern Cross, and Other Stories, 1918 Sara Cone Bryant"The Little Fir Tree," from Stories to Tell to Children: Fifty-one Stories With Some Suggestions for Telling, 1907 "The Golden Cobwebs: A Story to Tell by the Christmas Tree," from How to Tell Stories to Children, and Some Stories to Tell, 1915 "The Story of Christmas," from How to Tell Stories to Children, and Some Stories to Tell, 1915 Pearl S. Buck"Christmas Day in the Morning," from Collier's, December 1955 Oliver Bell Bunce"Mr. Bluff's Experience of Holidays" (originally published in Christmas, edited by Robert Haven Schauffler, 1907), from The Children's Book of Christmas Stories, edited by Asa Don Dickinson and Ada M. Skinner, 1926
Harrison Cady - Lewis Carroll - Willa Cather - William Caxton - Francis Pharcellus Church - John Clare - Wilkie Collins - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Susan Coolidge - François Coppée - J. Stirling Coyne - e. e. cummings Harrison CadyHoliday Time on Butternut Hill, 1929 Lewis Carroll"Christmas Greetings," 1867 "To All Child Readers of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland," 1871 Willa Cather"The Burglar's Christmas" (short story published under the pseudonym Elizabeth L. Seymour), from Home Monthly, December 1896 William Caxton"Saint Christopher" (adaptation, originally published in The Golden Legend, or Lives of the Saints, 1483), from Good Stories for Great Holidays, edited by Frances Jenkins Olcott, 1914 Francis Pharcellus Church"Yes, Virginia, There Is a Santa Claus," from the New York Sun, September 21, 1897 John Clare"The Shepherd's Calendar: December" (poem), from The Shepherd's Calendar with Village Stories and Other Poems, 1827 Wilkie CollinsMr. Wray's Cash Box, or The Mask and the Mystery: A Christmas Sketch, 1851 Miss or Mrs.?, 1871 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle"The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle," from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, 1892 More --> Copyright © 2002, 2003. All rights reserved.
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