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  The Little City of Hope - A...

  F. Marion Crawford

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  An inspiring novel about a struggling inventor and his family in turn-of-the-century New England.A man sits in his modest, rundown house in Connecticut, missing his wife, who is working overseas as a governess to make money for the family. But he does have the companionship of his son, who supports him in his dreams of success as an inventor.As Christmas draws near, their spirits are low—until the two begin working together on a model of a city, built with simple scraps, that leads them to a new place of hope . . . This tale, first published in 1907, has become a cherished classic—and makes for a wonderful holiday read about life’s truest gifts.

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  Virtue of Simplicity The...

  Booker T. Washington

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  Booker Taliaferro Washington (April 5, 1856 - November 14, 1915) was an American educator, author, orator, and adviser to several presidents of the United States. Between 1890 and 1915, Washington was the dominant leader in the African American community and of the contemporary black elite. Washington was from the last generation of black American leaders born into slavery and became the leading voice of the former slaves and their descendants. They were newly oppressed in the South by disenfranchisement and the Jim Crow discriminatory laws enacted in the post-Reconstruction Southern states in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  THE VIRTUE OF SIMPLICITY: I hope that you all paid strict attention to what Mr. William H. Baldwin, Jr., who recently spoke to you, had to say. In the few words that he spoke, I think he told you the platform upon which this institution has been built.

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  Christmas Stories - Tales of Joy...

  Willa Cather, Louisa May Alcott,...

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  Christmas may come but once a year but human emotions, the driving force of our characters are with us every day.   
   
  Yet, somehow these same emotions when they happen at Christmas, seem amplified, we seem more tender to their touch, their words. 
   
  Whether it’s a long-lost returning soldier wondering how best to return to the arms of his family without too great a risk of shock …….   
   
  Or a prodigal son whose taken path has driven pain into his own and others hearts…..  
   
  Or a murderer carrying out his thoughtless deed but then enmeshed in a dialogue for salvation….. 
   
  These stories reveal much about the human condition. The landscape of our lives reveals that we all have choices, and how we use those choices influences, nourishes, or decays those around us. 
   
  These stories are tidings of both joy and of terror . 
  1 - Christmas Short Stories. Tales of Joy and Terror - An Introduction  
  2 - The Beggar Boy at Christ's Christmas Tree by Fyodor Dostoevsky 
  3 - The Gift of the Magi by O Henry 
  4 - What the Bells Saw and Said by Louisa May Alcott 
  5 - The Burglar's Christmas by Willa Cather 
  6 - Vanka by Anton Chekhov 
  7 - The Dead by James Joyce 
  8 - Christmas Eve in War Times by Edward Payson Roe 
  9 - Markheim by Robert Louis Stevenson

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  The Battle of Life

  Charles Dickens

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  The Battle of Life: A Love Story is a novella by Charles Dickens, 1st published in 1846. It's the 4th of his five "Christmas Books", coming after The Cricket on the Hearth, followed by The Haunted Man & the Ghost's Bargain.The setting is an English village that stands on the site of a historic battle. Some characters refer to the battle as a metaphor for the struggles of life, hence the title.Battle is the only one of the five Christmas Books that has no supernatural or explicitly religious elements. (One scene takes place at Christmas time, but it isn't the final scene.) The story bears some resemblance to The Cricket on the Hearth in two aspects: it has a non-urban setting & it's resolved with a romantic twist. It's even less of a social novel than is Cricket. As is typical with Dickens, the ending is a happy one.It's one of Dickens' lesser-known works & has never attained any high level of popularity, a trait it shares among the Christmas Books with The Haunted Man.

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  The Night Land - A Love Tale

  William Hope Hodgson

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  In the far future, an unnamed narrator, who along with what remains of the human race dwells uneasily in an underground fortress-city surrounded by brooding, chaotic, relentless Watching Things, Silent Ones, Hounds, Giants, 'Ab-humans,' Brutes, and enormous slugs and spiders, follows a telepathic distress signal into the unfathomable darkness. The Earth's surface is frozen, and what's worse - at some point in the distant past, overreaching scientists breached 'the Barrier of Life' that separates our dimension from one populated by 'monstrosities and Forces' who have sought humankind's destruction ever since. Armed only with a lightsaber-esque weapon called a Diskos, and fortified only by his sense of Honor, our hero braves every sort of terror en route to rescue a woman he loves but has never met.

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  The Death of Justina

  John Cheever

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  Read by Meryl Streep 
  Here is one of twelve magnificent stories, originally part of The John Cheever Audio Collection, in which John Cheever celebrates—with unequaled grace and tenderness—the deepest feelings we have. 
  As Cheever writes in his preface, ""These stories seem at times to be stories of a long-lost world when the city of New York was still filled with a river light, when you heard the Benny Goodman quartets from a radio in the corner stationery store, and when almost everybody wore a hat.""

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