http://www.feedbooks.com/list/362 Christmas or Christmas Day is an annual holiday characterized chiefly as a time for getting together with one's family (quality family time), spreading goodwill, feasting, and exchanging presents. Although many of the traditions of Christmas, e.g. the Christmas tree, go back to pre-Christian times, common knowledge holds that it marks the birth of Jesus of Nazareth. Christmas combines the celebration of Jesus' birth with various other traditions and customs, many of which were influenced by ancient winter festivals such as Yule and Saturnalia. Christmas traditions include the display of Nativity scenes and Christmas trees, the exchange of gifts and cards, and the arrival of Father Christmas (Santa Claus) on Christmas Eve. The Gift of the Magi O. Henry http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3504 urn:isbn:141693586X en 1906 Short Fiction Jim Dillingham Young and his wife Della are a young couple who are very much in love with each other, but can barely afford their one-room apartment opposite the elevated train due to their very bad economic condition. For Christmas, Della decides to buy Jim a chain which costs twenty dollars for his prized pocket watch given to him by his father. To raise the funds, she has her prized long hair cut off and sold to make a wig. Meanwhile, Jim decides to sell his watch to buy Della a beautiful set of combs made out of tortoise shell for her lovely, knee-length brown hair. Although each is disappointed to find the gift they chose rendered useless, each is pleased with the gift they received, because it represents their love for one another. The true unselfish love that the characters, Jim and Della, share is greater than their possessions. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3504.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3504.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3504.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3504.mobi The Battle of Life Charles Dickens http://www.feedbooks.com/book/62 urn:isbn:1421818205 en 1846 Novels Young Readers The Battle of Life: A Love Story is a novel by Charles Dickens, first published in 1846. It is the fourth of his five "Christmas Books", coming after The Cricket on the Hearth and followed by The Haunted Man. It is noteworthy in that it is the only one out of the five books that does not have any use of supernatural elements. It bears the greatest resemblance to The Cricket on the Hearth in two aspects: that it is not a social novel and that it is resolved with a romantic twist. As is typical with Dickens, the ending is a happy one, and some might argue an overly happy one. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/62.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/62.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/62.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/62.mobi The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain Charles Dickens http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3368 en 1848 Novels Ghost Stories Redlaw is a teacher of chemistry who often broods over wrongs done him and grief from his past. He is haunted by a spirit, who is not so much a ghost as Redlaw's phantom twin and is "an awful likeness of himself...with his features, and his bright eyes, and his grizzled hair, and dressed in the gloomy shadow of his dress..." This specter appears and proposes to Redlaw that he can allow him to "forget the sorrow, wrong, and trouble you have known...to cancel their remembrance..." Redlaw is hesitant at first, but finally agrees. However, before the spirit vanishes it imposes an additional consequence: "The gift that I have given you, you shall give again, go where you will." http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3368.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3368.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3368.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3368.mobi Nan Sherwood's Winter Holidays Annie Roe Carr http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3554 en 1916 Novels Young Readers Excerpt: Ta-ra! ta-ra! ta-ra-ra-ra! ta-rat! Professor Krenner took the silver bugle from his lips while the strain echoed flatly from the opposite, wooded hill. That hill was the Isle of Hope, a small island of a single eminence lying half a mile off the mainland, and not far north of Freeling. The shore of Lake Huron was sheathed in ice. It was almost Christmas time. Winter had for some weeks held this part of Michigan in an iron grip. The girls of Lakeview Hall were tasting all the joys of winter sports. The cove at the boathouse (this was the building that some of the Lakeview Hall girls had once believed haunted) was now a smooth, well-scraped skating pond. Between the foot of the hill, on the brow of which the professor stood, and the Isle of Hope, the strait was likewise solidly frozen. The bobsled course was down the hill and across the icy track to the shore of the island. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3554.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3554.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3554.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3554.mobi Six Little Bunkers at Grandpa Ford's Laura Lee Hope http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3515 en 1918 Novels Young Readers From the Six Little Bunkers series: "Oh, Daddy, come and take him off! He's a terrible big one, and he's winkin' one of his claws at me! Come and take him off!" "All right, Mun Bun. I'll be there in just a second. Hold him under water so he won't let go, and I'll get him for you." Daddy Bunker, who had been reading the paper on the porch of Cousin Tom's bungalow at Seaview, hurried down to the little pier that was built out into Clam River. On the end of the pier stood a little boy, who was called Mun Bun, but whose real name was Munroe Ford Bunker. However, he was almost always called Mun Bun. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3515.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3515.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3515.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3515.mobi The Story of a Nodding Donkey Laura Lee Hope http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3516 en 1921 Novels Young Readers From the "Make Believe Stories": The Nodding Donkey dated his birth from the day he received the beautiful coat of varnish in the workshop of Santa Claus at the North Pole. Before that he was just some pieces of wood, glued together. His head was not glued on, however, but was fastened in such a manner that with the least motion the Donkey could nod it up and down, and also sidewise. It is not every wooden donkey who is able to nod his head in as many ways as could the Donkey about whom I am going to tell you. This Nodding Donkey was an especially fine toy, and, as has been said, his first birthday was that on which he received such a bright, shiny coat of varnish. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3516.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3516.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3516.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3516.mobi The Story of a Stuffed Elephant Laura Lee Hope http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3517 en 1922 Novels Young Readers From the "Make-Believe Stories": "Oh, how large he is!" "Isn't he? And such wonderfully strong legs!" "See his trunk, too! Isn't it cute! And he is well stuffed! This is really one of the best toys that ever came into our shop, Geraldine; don't you think so?" "Yes, Angelina. I must call father to come and look at him. He will make a lovely present for some boy or girl—I mean this Stuffed Elephant will make a lovely present, not our father!" and Miss Angelina Mugg smiled at her sister across the big packing box of Christmas toys they were opening in their father's store. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3517.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3517.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3517.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3517.mobi How Santa Claus Came to Simpson's Bar Bret Harte http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3519 en 1872 Short Fiction http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3519.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3519.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3519.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3519.mobi The Abbot's Ghost, or Maurice Treherne's Temptation Louisa May Alcott http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3520 en 1867 Short Fiction Romance Ghost Stories A christmas story from the writer of Little Women. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3520.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3520.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3520.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3520.mobi The Burglar and the Blizzard Alice Duer Miller http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3521 en 1914 Novels A Christmas story. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3521.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3521.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3521.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3521.mobi Little Maid Marian Amy Ella Blanchard http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3532 en 1908 Novels Young Readers Religion The cat and kitten were both eating supper and Marian was watching them. Her own supper of bread and milk she had finished, and had taken the remains of it to Tippy and Dippy. Marian did not care very much for bread and milk, but the cat and kitten did, as was plainly shown by the way they hunched themselves down in front of the tin pan into which Marian had poured their supper. In the next room Grandpa and Grandma Otway were sitting and little bits of their talk came to Marian's ears once in a while when her thoughts ceased to wander in other directions. "If only one could have faith to believe implicitly," Grandma Otway said. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3532.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3532.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3532.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3532.mobi The Chimes Charles Dickens http://www.feedbooks.com/book/60 urn:isbn:1419156608 en 1844 Novels Young Readers The Chimes: A Goblin Story of Some Bells that Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year In, a short novel by Charles Dickens, was written and published in 1844, one year after A Christmas Carol. It is the second in his series of "Christmas books": five short books with strong social and moral messages that he published during the 1840's. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/60.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/60.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/60.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/60.mobi The Cricket on the Hearth Charles Dickens http://www.feedbooks.com/book/61 urn:isbn:1419158074 en 1845 Novels Young Readers The Cricket on the Hearth is a novella by Charles Dickens, written in 1845. It is the third of Dickens' five Christmas books, the others being A Christmas Carol (1843), The Chimes (1844), The Battle of Life (1846), and The Haunted Man (1847). http://www.feedbooks.com/book/61.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/61.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/61.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/61.mobi Life and Adventures of Santa Claus Lyman Frank Baum http://www.feedbooks.com/book/321 en 1902 Novels Fantasy This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/321.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/321.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/321.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/321.mobi A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens http://www.feedbooks.com/book/59 urn:isbn:1580495796 en 1843 Novels Young Readers In his "Ghostly little book," Charles Dickens invents the modern concept of Christmas Spirit and offers one of the world’s most adapted and imitated stories. We know Ebenezer Scrooge, Tiny Tim, and the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future, not only as fictional characters, but also as icons of the true meaning of Christmas in a world still plagued with avarice and cynicism. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/59.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/59.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/59.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/59.mobi A Kidnapped Santa Claus Lyman Frank Baum http://www.feedbooks.com/book/325 urn:isbn:1434899241 en 1904 Short Fiction Fantasy Santa Claus lives in the Laughing Valley, where stands the big, rambling castle in which his toys are manufactured. His workmen, selected from the ryls, knooks, pixies and fairies, live with him, and every one is as busy as can be from one year's end to another. On one side is the mighty Forest of Burzee. At the other side stands the huge mountain that contains the Caves of the Daemons. And between them the Valley lies smiling and peaceful. One would think that our good old Santa Claus, who devotes his days to making children happy, would have no enemies on all the earth; and, as a matter of fact, for a long period of time he encountered nothing but love wherever he might go. But the Daemons who live in the mountain caves grew to hate Santa Claus very much, and all for the simple reason that he made children happy. One Christmas Eve, they decided to take action! This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/325.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/325.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/325.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/325.mobi The Christmas Porringer Evaleen Stein http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3509 en 1914 Novels Young Readers An earthenware porringer, bought by a little Flemish girl of Bruges as a gift for the Christ child and stolen by Robber Hans, finally brings much happiness to her and her grandmother, the lace maker. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3509.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3509.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3509.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3509.mobi Beasley's Christmas Party Newton Booth Tarkington http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2093 urn:isbn:1406548863 en 1909 Short Fiction This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2093.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2093.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2093.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2093.mobi Nibsy's Christmas Jacob August Riis http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3510 en 1893 Short Fiction Collections A collection of 3 short stories about Christmas. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3510.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3510.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3510.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3510.mobi Christmas Zona Gale http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3522 en 1912 Novels This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3522.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3522.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3522.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3522.mobi The Upas Tree Florence L. Barclay http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3528 en 1912 Novels A Christmas Story for all the Year. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3528.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3528.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3528.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3528.mobi Christmas with Grandma Elsie Martha Finley http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3523 en 1888 Novels A Christmas story from the Elsie series. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3523.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3523.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3523.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3523.mobi Christmas, and Poems on Slavery for Christmas Thomas Hill http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3508 en 1843 Poetry Collections A set of Christmas and antislavery poems published by Thomas Hill (1818-1891) for the Boston antislavery fair. Digitized by the Antislavery Literature Project. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3508.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3508.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3508.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3508.mobi Christian Gellert's Last Christmas Berthold Auerbach http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3505 en 1869 Short Fiction A Christmas short-story extracted from "German Tales". http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3505.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3505.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3505.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3505.mobi A Christmas Sermon Robert Louis Stevenson http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3507 en 1900 Essay Religion By the time this paper appears, I shall have been talking for twelve months; and it is thought I should take my leave in a formal and seasonable manner. Valedictory eloquence is rare, and death-bed sayings have not often hit the mark of the occasion. Charles Second, wit and sceptic, a man whose life had been one long lesson in human incredulity, an easy-going comrade, a manoeuvring king—remembered and embodied all his wit and scepticism along with more than his usual good humour in the famous "I am afraid, gentlemen, I am an unconscionable time a-dying." http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3507.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3507.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3507.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3507.mobi The Two Christmas Celebrations, A.D. I. and MDCCCLV. Theodore Parker http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3518 en 1856 Short Fiction Religion http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3518.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3518.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3518.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3518.mobi The Spirit of Christmas Henry van Dyke http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3512 en 1905 Short Fiction Essay Collections Religion A short story, an essay, a sermon and two prayers for Christmas. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3512.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3512.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3512.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3512.mobi The Weapons of Mystery Joseph Hocking http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3527 en 1890 Novels Crime/Mystery This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3527.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3527.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3527.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3527.mobi Old Christmas Washington Irving http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3514 en 1819 Essay Collections A collection of essays about Christmas. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3514.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3514.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3514.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3514.mobi A Christmas Tree Charles Dickens http://www.feedbooks.com/book/706 en 1850 Short Fiction http://www.feedbooks.com/book/706.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/706.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/706.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/706.mobi What Christmas Is as We Grow Older Charles Dickens http://www.feedbooks.com/book/705 en 1851 Short Fiction http://www.feedbooks.com/book/705.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/705.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/705.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/705.mobi The Poor Relation's Story Charles Dickens http://www.feedbooks.com/book/703 en 1852 Short Fiction http://www.feedbooks.com/book/703.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/703.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/703.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/703.mobi The Child's Story Charles Dickens http://www.feedbooks.com/book/704 en 1852 Short Fiction http://www.feedbooks.com/book/704.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/704.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/704.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/704.mobi The Schoolboy's Story Charles Dickens http://www.feedbooks.com/book/702 en 1853 Short Fiction http://www.feedbooks.com/book/702.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/702.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/702.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/702.mobi Nobody's Story Charles Dickens http://www.feedbooks.com/book/708 en 1853 Short Fiction http://www.feedbooks.com/book/708.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/708.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/708.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/708.mobi Christmas Banquet Nathaniel Hawthorne http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1591 en 1844 Short Fiction http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1591.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1591.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1591.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1591.mobi Snowflakes Nathaniel Hawthorne http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1852 en 1837 Short Fiction http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1852.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1852.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1852.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1852.mobi