The Santa's Library: 450+ Christmas Novels, Tales, Carols & Legends

di Phebe A. Curtiss (Autore)

Pedro A. de Alarcón (Autore)

M. A. L. Lane (Autore)

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e-artnow, 2023

The Santa's Library gathers more than 450 Christmas novels, tales, carols, poems, legends, and seasonal reflections into an expansive archive of festive literature. Its contents range from fairy tale, domestic realism, moral parable, detective fiction, adventure, devotional verse, and comic sketch to Gothic fantasy and folklore. Canonical narratives of Christmas transformation stand beside children's stories, regional portraits, hymns, and legends, revealing how the holiday has served as a lens for charity, memory, wonder, social conscience, and communal ritual across the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The contributors constitute a remarkably international and cross-generic assembly: British, American, Scandinavian, French, Spanish, Russian, and German writers appear alongside poets, clergy, educators, folklorists, and popular storytellers. Major figures of Romanticism, Victorian realism, the fairy-tale revival, children's literature, and emerging modern sensibilities share the volume with less familiar voices. Collectively, they trace Christmas writing's movement between Christian observance and secular celebration, between inherited legend and modern domestic culture, while also registering class, childhood, family, poverty, and national tradition. This collection is especially rewarding for readers seeking both pleasure and scholarly breadth. It offers an unusual opportunity to compare styles and cultural assumptions across a vast seasonal canon, while observing how recurring motifs—generosity, hospitality, redemption, and enchantment—are continually reimagined. Students, researchers, and general readers alike will find a rich literary conversation within a single capacious volume. Hoffmann) The Little Match Girl The Elves and the Shoemaker Mother Holle The Star Talers Snow-White The Christmas Hirelings The Blue Carbuncle An Exciting Christmas Eve The Spirit of Christmas…

• Autore: Phebe A. Curtiss, Pedro A. de Alarcón, M. A. L. Lane
• Anno edizione: 2023
• Editore: e-artnow
• Formato: EPUB2 con Adobe DRM
• Lingua: Inglese
• Compatibilità: Tutti i dispositivi (eccetto Kindle)
• Layout: Reflowable
• EAN: 4066339565579