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Enchanting, tragic, and hilarious fairy tales for adults and children grace these pages. An initial glance might lead you to assume that these are satirical versions of classic Christmas ghost stories. However, beneath the humorous stories involving ghosts, repentant sinners, miracles, and good peasants who find well-deserved happiness, lies a psychological undercurrent that sharpens the sense of intrigue and plot movement. Often this is aided by the unrelenting social exposure of the authors who always understood how intangible the “bourgeois paradise” truly was. Even today, idyllic dreams of tolerance, equality, and the triumph of justice have failed to materialize.
Perhaps that is why people continue to read these classic stories while the snow falls outside and the lights glow on the Christmas tree.
Contents
Charles Dickens
G.K. Chesterton
L.M. Montgomery
L. Frank Baum
Mark Twain
Louisa May Alcott
Leo Tolstoy
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Nikolay Gogol
William Dean Howells
Joseph Rudyard Kipling
Elizabeth Harrison
John Milton
Hans Christian Andersen
Selma Lagerlof
Hans Christian Andersen
Clement Moore
Henry van Dyke
Beatrix Potter
Anton Chehov
Enchanting, tragic, and hilarious fairy tales for adults and children grace these pages. An initial glance might lead you to assume that these are satirical versions of classic Christmas ghost stories. However, beneath the humorous stories involving ghosts, repentant sinners, miracles, and good peasants who find well-deserved happiness, lies a psychological undercurrent that sharpens the sense of intrigue and plot movement. Often this is aided by the unrelenting social exposure of the authors who always understood how intangible the “bourgeois paradise” truly was. Even today, idyllic dreams of tolerance, equality, and the triumph of justice have failed to materialize.
Perhaps that is why people continue to read these classic stories while the snow falls outside and the lights glow on the Christmas tree.
Contents
Charles Dickens
G.K. Chesterton
L.M. Montgomery
L. Frank Baum
Mark Twain
Louisa May Alcott
Leo Tolstoy
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Nikolay Gogol
William Dean Howells
Joseph Rudyard Kipling
Elizabeth Harrison
John Milton
Hans Christian Andersen
Selma Lagerlof
Hans Christian Andersen
Clement Moore
Henry van Dyke
Beatrix Potter
Anton Chehov