Christmas Books and Stories

Our Christmas Books and Stories CD includes 98 books and 41 stories, including works by Dickens, Baum, O. Henry, Washington Irving, Saki, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Thackeray, and Booth Tarkington.

Intended for use with PCs (Windows or Linux) and recent Macs (OS X), our books are in plain-text format, not audio or video. You read them on your computer screen.

You can see the complete table of contents below. Please use the Find function in your browser (under Edit) to look for a specific author or book.

Table of Contents

The Bible Story of Christmas

• Matthew
• Luke

The Christmas Tradition

• Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan by Clement A. Miles
• Christmas: Its Origin and Associations by W.F. Dawson
• The Christmas Kalends of Provence and Some Other Provencal Festivals by Thomas A. Janvier
• Myths and Legends of Christmas by Bertha F. Herrick
• Yuletide in Many Lands by Mary P. Pringle and Clara A. Urann

Collections

• A Budget of Christmas Tales by Charles Dickens and others
• The Children's Book of Christmas Stories edited by Ada Don Dickinson and Ada M. Skinner
• Christmas Entertainments, containing fancy drills, acrostics, motion songs, tableaux, short plays, recitation in costume for children 5 to 15 by Alice M. Kellogg
• The Christmas Fairy and Other Stories by Frances E. Crompton and Mrs. Molesworth
• Christmas Stories and Legends compiled by Phebe A. Curtiss
• Good Stories for Great Holidays by Frances Jenkins Olcott
• Holiday Stories for Young Peole compiled by Margaret E. Sangster
• In the Yule-Log Glow, Christmas Tales from Round the World edited by Harrison S. Morris
• book 1
• book 2
• book 3
• book 4
• Lill's Travels in Santa Claus Land and other Stories by Ellis Towne, Sophie May and Ella Farman
• The Night Before Christmas and Other Popular Stories for Children, 1903
• Our Holidays, retold from St. Nicholas (magazine), 1906
• Punch Among the Planets, special Christmas issue of the magazine Punch, 1890

Periodicals

• St. Nicholas Magazine
• Nov. 1877
• Dec. 1877
• Jan. 1878
• Feb. 1878
• March 1878
• Sept. 1878
• Oct. 1878

Anonymous

• Christmas Sunshine
• The Mouse and the Christmas Cake

Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

• Peace on Earth, Good-Will to Dogs

Louisa May Alcott

• A Country Christmas (story)

H.S. Armstrong

• Trifles for the Christmas Holidays

T.S. Arthur

• The Christmas Party (story)

John Ashton

• A Righte Merrie Christmasse, the Story of Christ-tide

Berthold Auerbach

• Christian Gellert's Last Christmas (story)

Florence Barclay

• The Upas Tree, 1912

A.M. Barnard

• The Abbot's Ghost or Maurice Treherne's Temptation: a Christmas Story

(Lyman) Frank Baum (1856-1919)

• Kidnapped Santa Claus (story)
• The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus

Arnold Bennett

• The Feast of St. Friend

M. Betham-Edwards

• Holidays in Eastern France

Mary Stuart Boyd

• Versailles Christmas-Tide

Cyrus Townsend Brady

• And Thus He Came: A Christmas Fantasy, 1916
• A Little Book for Christmas, 1917

Abbie Farwell Brown

• The Christmas Angel, 1910

Robert Browning (1812-1889)

• Christmas Eve (poem)

Ellis Parker Butler

• The Thin Santa Claus

Annie Roe Carr

• Nan Sherwood's Winter Holidays

Alphonse Chabot

• La Nuit de Noel dan Tous les Pays, (in French), 1912

Anton Chekhov

• At Christmas Time (story)

F. Marion Crawford

• A Little City of Hope: a Christmas Story, 1907

Samuel McChord Crothers

• By the Christmas Fire

Leona Dalrymple

• Jimsy: the Christmas Kid

Coningsby Dawson

• Christmas Outside of Eden, 1922

Charles Dickens (1812-1870)

• The Chimes (story)
• A Christmas Carol
• The Cricket on the Hearth
• Some Christmas Stories

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

• The Christmas Tree and the Wedding (story)

Norman Duncan

• Christmas Eve at Swamp's End

Juliana Horatia Ewing

• The Peace Egg and other Tales

Eugene Field

• Christmas Tales and Christmas Verse
• The Mouse and the Moonbeam

Martha Finley

• Christmas with Grandma Elsie, 1888

John Fox, Jr.

• Christmas Eve on Lonesome and Other Stories

Anatole France

• The Miracle of the Great St. Nicolas, translated by D.B. Stewart

Dr. Samuel Francis

• A Christmas Story

Zona Gale

• Christmas, a Story

Alfred Gurney

• A Christmas Faggot

Walter Ben Hare

• The White Christmas and other Merry Christmas Plays

Bret Harte

•  The Christmas Gift That Came To Rupert: A Story For Little Soldiers (story)
• The Haunted Man: A Christmas Story (condensed novel)

Nathaniel Hawthorne

• The Christmas Banquet (story)

O. Henry

• A Chaparral Christmas Gift (story)
• Christmas by Injunction (story)
• The Gift of the Magi (story)
• Whistling Dick's Christmas Stocking (story)

Emily Mayer Higgins

• Holidays at the Grange or a Week's Delight, Games and Storie for Parlor and Fireside

William Dean Howells

• Christmas Every Day and Other Stories told for Children

Rupert Hughes

• Colonel Crockett's Co-operative Christmas

Washington Irving (1783-1859)

• Old Christmas
• Christmas (short stories)
• Christmas Eve (story)
• Christmas Day (story)
• Christmas Dinner (story)_

M.R. James

• More Ghost Stories

Jerome K. Jerome

• The Angel and the Author and Others

Locke, William John (1863-1930)

• A Christmas Mystery: a Story of Three Wise Men

Annie Fellows Johnston

• The Little Colonel's Christmas Vacation

Alice Kellog

• Christmas Entertainments

Charles Kingsley (1819-1875)

• At Last: a Christmas in the West Indies

Shepherd Knapp

• The Christmas Dinner, 1921

Lizzie Lawson

• Christmas Roses (with Robert Ellice MacK)

Luke Limner

• Christmas Comes But Once a Year

Fannie C. Macaulay

• Mr. Bamboo and the Honorable Little God, a Christmas Story

Miss Mant

• Christmas a Happy Time, a tale calculated for the amusement and instruction of young persons, 1832

Alice Duer Miller

• The Burglar and the Blizzard, 1914

Madame de la Ville de Mirmont

• Contes de Noel (in French), 1916

S. Weir Mitchell

• Mr. Kris Kringle, a Christmas Tale

Mrs. Molesworth

• A Christmas Posy

Clement C. Moore

• Twas the Night Before Christmas, a Visit from St. Nicholas, 1912

W.H.H. Murray

• Holiday Tales: Christmas in the Adirondacks

Meredith Nicholson

• A Reversible Santa Claus, 1917

Thomas Nelson Page

• Santa Claus's Partner, 1899
• Tommy Trot's Visit to Santa Claus

Theodore Parker

• Two Christmas Celebrations, AD 1 and 1855

Ethel Calvert Phillips

• Christmas Light

Grace Richmond

• On Christmas Day in the Evening
• On Christmas Day in the Morning

Jacob August Riis

• Nibsy's Christmas

James Whitcomb Riley

• A Defective Santa Claus

Saki

• Bertie's Christmas Eve (story)
• Reginald on Christmas Presents (story)
• Reginald's Christmas Revel (story)

Elva Smith

• Christmas in Legend and Story

F. Hopkinson Smith

• Colonel Carter's Christmas: The Romance of an Old-Fashioned Gentleman

James Snowden

• A Wonderful Night

Robert Louis Stevenson

• A Christmas Sermon

Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896)

• Betty's Bright Idea and The First Christmas of New England

Hesba Stretton

• The Christmas Child

Ruth McInery Stuart

• Solomon Crow's Christmas Pockets and other Tales
• Sonny a Christmas Guest

Booth Tarkington (1869-1946)

• Beasley's Christmas Party

William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863)

• The Christmas Books (writing as Michael Angelo Titmarsh)

Annie Eliot Trumbull

• A Christmas Accident and Other Stories

Henry Van Dyke

• The First Christmas-Tree (story)
• The Story of the Other Wise Man
• The Lost Word: a Christmas Legend of Long Ago
• The Spirt of Christmas, 1911

Charles Dudley Warner (1829-1900)

• Altruism (essay)
• The Burden of Christmas (essay)

Edward Noyes Westcott

• The Christmas Story from David Harum

Kate Douglas Wiggin

• The Birds' Christmas Carol
• The Romance of a Christmas Card

C.N. and A.M. Williamson

• Rosemary, a Christmas Story

Mrs. Charles Woodbury

• The Potato Child and Others