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Wonderwings and other Fairy Stories

by Edith Howes

Wonderwings and other Fairy Stories is a small collection of fairy stories written by the New Zealand writer and educationalist Edith Annie Howes. There are three stories in this collection with colorful illustrative pictures such as Wonderwings, The magic mirror, and Fairy Tenderheart...

The Golden Spears

by Edmund Leamy

The Golden Spears and other stories, is a collection of Irish fairy tales compiled by Irish writer Edmund Leamy, whose works include Irish Fairy Tales and Irish Fairy Stories for Children.  This collection contains seven stories with illustration such as The golden spears, The house in the lake, The enchanted cave, The huntsman’s son, The fair..

Betty's Bright Idea; Deacon Pitkin's Farm

by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Betty's Bright Idea and other stories is a collection of short stories written by the American abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe, who is remembered for her antislavery novel Uncle Tom's Cabin. Among her numerous works of novels, travel memoirs and collections notable are A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin, Old Town Folks, House and Home Papers, Palmetto L..

The Lost Word

by Henry Van Dyke

The Lost Word is a short story written on the sets of Christmas about a man who had been cursed in the society with his poverty. This story narrates the power of belief in god and the power of prayer through the life of Hermas, whose belief in god in spite of his miseries lead him to recover the joy of happiness.  This story is written by t..

Nibsy's Christmas

by Jacob A. Riis

Nibsy's Christmas is a juvenile fiction story written by the Danish American writer Jacob August Riis.  Being a journalist and social documentary photographer, he was one of the early adopters of flash in photography that made him to be remembered as one of the fathers of photography. Most of his literary works reflect his social reform thinki..

The Potato Child and Others

by Lucia Prudence Hall Woodbury

The Potato Child & Other stories are a juvenile fiction stories written by Lucia Prudence Hall Woodbury. This Christmas story book contains three stories The potato child, A story that never ends, and A Nazareth Christmas. The Potato Child narrates the story of Elsie, a little girl who had been hired as a maid by Miss Amanda, a well-known dr..

Some Christmas Stories

by Charles Dickens

Some Christmas Stories is a collection of Christmas stories written by the greatest English novelist of Victorian era Charles Dickens, who has contributed numerous works to the literary world in the form of novels, poems, essays and short stories.  His most famous Christmas story is A Christmas carol. This collection contains six short stor..

Two Christmas Celebrations

by Theodore Parker

Two Christmas Celebrations is a short Christmas story written by the American Transcendentalist Theodore Parker, whose quotations had great impact on the speeches of Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther king Jr. This story is told in the period of Roman Emperor Augustus Caesar, whose order of taxing affected his citizens, in which a carpenter Josep..