The Library: Christmas Stories
Catch up on some Christmas reading!
I have over forty Christmas stories for your enjoyment.
Alcott, Louisa May
* Andersen, Hans Christian
* Baum, L. Frank
* Bryusov, Valerie
* Lewis Carroll
* Chesterton, C.K.
* Dickens, Charles
* Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan
* Frost, Robert
* Grahame, Kenneth
* Hale, Lucretia P.
* Hardy, Thomas
* O. Henry
* Irving, Washington
* Moore, Clement C.
* The New York Sun
* Rossetti, Christina
* Runyon, Damon
* Shakespeare, William
* Van Dyke, Henry
* Wiggin, Kate Douglas
Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888)
Little Women
- Ch.1 Playing Pilgrims
- Ch.2 A Merry Christmas
- Ch.3 The Laurence Boy
- Ch.2 A Merry Christmas
Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875)
Hans Christian Anderson's fairy tales are beautiful, but are written with strong morals and possibly disturbing conclusions, the protagonist usually dying. You might want to pre-read them before telling them to younger children.
- The Fir Tree
- Published in 1845, and translated by H.P. Paull in 1872.
- The Little Match-Girl
- Published in 1846, and translated by H.P. Paull in 1872. Here is a lovely story that always makes me cry. Another version of this story.
- The Snow Man
- Published in 1861, and translated by H.P. Paull in 1872.
- The Snow Queen: In Seven Stories
- Published in 1845, and translated by H.P. Paull in 1872.
L. Frank Baum (1856-1919)
Did you think that all Frank Baum ever wrote were Oz books? This prolific writer has tried his hand at many types of children's stories, including these tales of Santa Claus.
- A Kidnapped Santa Claus
- text (30KB) or zipped (13KB)
- Life and Adventures of Santa Claus
- text (171KB) or zipped (71KB)
Bryusov, Valerie ?
Lewis Carroll (1832-1898)
Pen name for Charles Dodgson.
- Christmas Greetings
- From a Fairy to a Child.
- To All Child Readers of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
C.K. Chesterton (1874-1936)
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930)
- The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle
- A Sherlock Holmes mystery with a Christmas Twist.
Robert Frost (1874-1963)
- Christmas Trees
- A Christmas Circular Letter. From "Mountain Interval" (New York: Henry Holt, 1916)
Kenneth Grahame (1820-1900)
- The Wind in the Willows
- Ch.5: Dulce Domum
Lucretia P. Hale (1820-1900)
Thomas Hardy (1840-1910)
- The Thieves Who Couldn't Help Sneezing (1877)
Originally from Father Christmas Annual (1877)
O. Henry (1862-1910)
Pen name of William Sydney Porter; born in North Carolina in 1862. He started writing stories while in prison for embezzlement, (convicted in 1898 - it is uncertain if he actually committed the crime). He started late, but proved a prolific and widely read short story writer in the twelve years he devoted to the craft, and his name has become synonymous with the American short story. His years in Texas inspired many lively Westerns, but it was New York City that galvanized his creative powers, and his New York stories became his claim to fame. Loved for their ironic plot twists, which made for pleasing surprise endings, his highly entertaining tales appeared weekly in Joseph Pulitzer's New York World. extremely private man, made famous by his work, preferred to spend his time and money on drink, died alone and penniless (alcoholism in 1910). O. Henry's legacy and his popularization of the short story was such that in 1918 Doubleday, in conjunction with the Society of Arts and Sciences, established the O. Henry Awards, an annual anthology of short stories, in his honor.
- The Gift of the Magi (1905)
- His best known story, it was dashed off past deadline in a matter of hours.
- A Chaparral Christmas Gift
Washington Irving (1783-1859)
- The Sketch Book, published in 1819-1820
- Christmas
- Christmas Eve
- Christmas Day
- The Christmas Dinner
- Christmas
Clement C. Moore (1779-1863)
- A Visit from St. Nicholas
- He wrote this poem for his children in 1822. A house guest copied it and sent it anonymously to the "Troy Sentinel" in Troy, New York. It was enthusiastically received by the public then, as it is still.
The New York Sun (1897)
- Yes, Virginia, There Is A Santa Claus the much-
reprinted letter from a young girl to the New York Sun.
- About the Exchange the story behind and beyond that letter.
Christina Rossetti (1830-1894)
Damon Runyon (1884-1946)
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Robert Louis Stevenson (?)
Henry Van Dyke (1852-1933)
Kate Douglas Wiggin (1857-1923)
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