12 Classic Christmas Tales

For the 12 Days of Christmas

  Take some time out for yourself this Christmas season with twelve classic short stories carefully selected to help you relive the magic of Christmases past ~ a time when things were simpler and easier.... or maybe not!

  The holiday season is a time to revisit the past and look forward to the future; the characters highlighted in this collection have been given the opportunity to reflect on their lives, to become a little more open to new possibilities and to each other. People who are offered the chance to create a change in their own lives or those of others, whether it be in their outlook or their circumstances.

A few stories and their authors, like “The Gift of the Magi,” by O. Henry and “The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle,” by Arthur Conan Doyle will be familiar to readers. Others, like “A College Santa Clause” by Ralph Henry Barbour will be much less so. A biography for each author has been included to help acquaint you with their own stories—some as interesting as any work of fiction.

So sit back and relax with these Christmas tales, from authors Louisa May Alcott, Ralph Henry Barbour, Charles Dickens, Arthur Conan Doyle, Willa Cather, Bret Harte, O. Henry, Richmal Crompton Lamburn, L.M. Montgomery, Jacob Riis, Frank R. Stockton and Annie Eliot Trumbull.