Worlds Greatest Christmas Stories, Booker T. Washington
Worlds Greatest Christmas Stories, Booker T. Washington
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World's Greatest Christmas Stories

Author: Booker T. Washington, Brothers Grimm, L. Frank Baum, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, O. Henry, Selma Lagerlöf, Beatrix Potter, Mark Twain, Susan Coolidge, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Mary Hartwell Catherwood, Thomas Hardy, Charles Dickens, Anna Robinson

Narrator: Alonzo Stephens

Unabridged: 56 hr 21 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: NTMC

Published: 11/13/2025

Categories: Fiction, Classic, Anthologies


Synopsis

Included

The Gift of the Magi (O. Henry)
The Fir Tree (Hans Christian Andersen)
The Little Match Girl (Hans Christian Andersen)
The Steadfast Tin Soldier (Hans Christian Andersen)
The Holy Night (Selma Lagerlöf)
Little Gretchen and the Wooden Shoe (Elizabeth Harrison)
A Letter from Santa Claus (Mark Twain)
Mary Returns The Doll
The Tale of Peter Rabbit (Beatrix Potter)
Toinette and the Elves (Susan Coolidge)
The Mistletoe Bough (Anthony Trollope)
Not if I Know It (Anthony Trollope)
The Two Generals (Anthony Trollope)
Christmas Every Day (William Dean Howells)
Jimmy Scarecrow's Christmas (Mary E. Wilkins Freeman)
Little Girl's Christmas (Winnifred E. Lincoln)
The Elves and the Shoemaker (Brothers Grimm)
Mother Holle (Brothers Grimm)
The Star Talers (Brothers Grimm)
Snow-White (Brothers Grimm)
A Kidnapped Santa Claus (L. Frank Baum)
The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood (Robinson Perrault)
The Blue Bird (Madame d'Aulnoy)
Christmas Every Day (William Dean Howells)
Turkeys Turning the Tables (William Dean Howells) 
The Pony Engine and the Pacific Express (William Dean Howells)
The Pumpkin Glory (William Dean Howells)
Butterflyfutterby and Flutterbybutterfly (William Dean Howells)
The Heavenly Christmas Tree (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
Where Love Is, God Is (Leo Tolstoy)
Susy Diller's Christmas Feast (Anonymous)
The Thieves who couldn't Stop Sneezing (Thomas Hardy)
A Christmas Mystery (William John Locke)
Papa Panov's Special Christmas (Leo Tolstoy)
Little Piccola (Nora A. Smith)
The Legend of the "White Gifts" (Phebe A. Curtiss)
Her Birthday Dream (Nellie C. King)
The Shepherd's Story (Booker T. Washington)
The Story of Christmas (Nora A. Smith)
The Legend of the Christmas Tree (Lucy Wheelock)
Little Jean (Francois Coppe)
How the Fir Tree Became the Christmas Tree
The Magi in the West and Their Search for the Christ
The Little Shepherd (Maud Lindsay)
Babouscka (Russian Legend)
The Worker in Sandal wood (Marjorie L. C. Pickthall)
The Shepherd Who Didn't Go (Jay T. Stocking)
Paulina's Christmas (Anna Robinson)
Unto Us a Child Is Born (Phebe A. Curtiss)
The Star (Florence M. Kingsley)
Christmas at Fezziwig's Warehouse (Charles Dickens)
The Christmas Masquerade (Mary E. Wilkins Freeman)
The Shepherds and the Angels (Bible)
The Telltale Tile (Olive Thorne Miller)
A Christmas Matinee (M. A. L. Lane) 
A Story of the Christ-Child (Elizabeth Harkison)
Why the Chimes Rang (Raymond McAlden)
The Birds' Christmas (F. E. Mann)
The Little Sister's Vacation (Winifred M. Kirkland)
Little Wolff's Wooden Shoes (François Coppée)
Christmas in the Alley (Olive Thorne Miller)
A Christmas Star (Katherine Pyle)
The Queerest Christmas (Grace Margaret Gallaher)
Old Father Christmas (J. H. Ewing)
How Christmas Came to the Santa Maria Flats
Christmas in the Barn (F. Arnstein)
The Philanthropist's Christmas (James Weber Linn)
The First Christmas-Tree (Lucy Wheelock)
Christmas in Seventeen Seventy-Six (Anne Hollingsworth Wharton)
Christmas Under The Snow (Olive Thorne Miller)
Master Sandy's Snapdragon
The Passing of Tony (Isabel Cecilia Williams)
A Memorable Christmas Morning (Isabel Cecilia Williams)
The Christmas Tree and the Wedding (F.M. Dostoyevsky)
Vanka (Anton Chekhov)
Who Ate The Pink Sweetmeat? (Susan Coolidge)
The Whizzer (Mary Hartwell Catherwood)
The Patroncito's Christmas (F. L. Stealey)
Cherry Pie (Kate Upson Clark)
Bertie's Ride (Marion Clifford)
Asaph Sheafe's Christmas (E. E. Hale)
and more....

About Booker T. Washington

Booker T. Washington (1856–1915) was an educator, race leader, author, and founder of the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute in Alabama. He was born on April 5, 1856, in Franklin County, Virginia, the son of a white slave owner he never knew and a black slave. Freed from slavery after emancipation in 1865, Washington worked as a houseboy, during which time he learned to read and write. At the time it was illegal to educate slaves in schools, so Washington's only exposure to them was when he carried his employer's daughters' books to school for them. He studied to be a teacher at the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute in Virginia, a school for young blacks, and eventually became a writer and speaker on black issues and struggles.

In 1881, Washington was appointed principal of the newly opened Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute in Alabama, and he built it up into a major center of black education. By cooperating with white people and enlisting the support of wealthy philanthropists, he helped raise funds to establish and operate hundreds of small community schools and institutions of higher education for blacks. Washington had learned early the values of hard work and industrial skills and they became the foundations for the school.

For a number of years, Washington toured as a lecturer, expressing his philosophy on racial advancement, education, and accomodationist compromises for blacks. His eloquent "Atlanta Compromise" speech on September 18, 1895, at the Atlanta Cotton States and International Exposition positively appealed to northern and southern whites and blacks from the south. The fates of all were inextricably bound, he said, and he pled for greater understanding and perseverance. He emphasized that through hard work, self-discipline, and education blacks would gain their deserved respect.

Though he was strongly criticized by W. E. B. Du Bois and other black leaders and his policies repudiated by the civil rights movement, Washington remains the foremost black leader of the late 1800s. In 1901, he published his autobiography, Up From Slavery, which is still widely read today.


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