The Ultimate Christmas Collection
60+ Classic Christmas Stories
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Narrated by:
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Nathan Osgood
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Katherine Fenton
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Jason Isaacs
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Emma Gregory
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Barnaby Edwards
About this listen
The Ultimate Christmas Collection brings together the most celebrated festive stories from classic authors around the world, including Charles Dickens, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Leo Tolstoy, Washington Irving, Saki, Selma Lagerlof, Mark Twain, Louisa May Alcott, Anton Chekhov, James Joyce, and many more.
Emma Gregory, Nathan Osgood, Barnaby Edwards, Jason Isaacs, Katherine Fenton, Ben Allen, David Rintoul, Jonathan Keeble, and Iwan Rheon read these tales that take us from snowy London to rural America, ice-cold Russia to the Scandinavian woods, and far beyond.
Some of the stories included here are:
- A Child’s Christmas in Wales, Dylan Thomas
- A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
- A Christmas Dream and How It Came True, Louisa May Alcott
- A Hint For Next Christmas, A. A. Milne
- A Kidnapped Santa Claus, L. Frank Baum
- At Christmas Time, Anton Chekhov
- Beggar Boy at Christ’s Christmas Tree, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Blue Carbuncle, Arthur Conan Doyle
- Christmas at Thompson Hall, Antony Trollope
- Christmas Eve, Washington Irving
- Christmas Storms and Sunshine, Elizabeth Gaskell
- Christmas Trees, Robert Frost
- Love Came Down at Christmas, Christina Rossetti
- Markheim, Robert Louis Stevenson
- Music on Christmas Morning, Anne Bronte
- Nutcracker and Mouse King, E. T. A. Hoffmann
- Papa Panov’s Special Christmas, Leo Tolstoy
- Reginald on Christmas Presents, Saki
- Reginald’s Christmas Revel, Saki
- The Christmas Dinner, Washington Irving
- The Christmas Story, from the King James Bible
- The Cricket on the Hearth, Charles Dickens
- The Dead, James Joyce
- The Elves and the Shoemaker, Brothers Grimm
- The Fire Tree, Hans Christian Anderson
- The Flying Stars, G.K. Chesterton
- The Gift of Magi, O Henry
- The Holy Night, Selma Lagerlöf
- The Ice Palace, F. Scott Fitzgerald
- The Little Match Girl, Hans Christian Anderson
- The Steadfast Tin Soldier, Hans Christian Anderson
- The Tailor of Gloucester, Beatrix Potter
- Twas the Night Before Christmas, Clement Clarke Moore
- Vanka, Chekhov
- Where Love is, God Is, Leo Tolstoy
- & Many more
This audiobook is fully indexed. Once downloaded, each title and chapter will be listed so you can easily navigate to the individual section. You can also view a breakdown of the titles and tracks below.
Public Domain (P)2024 SNR AudioAs that's my favourite Christmas book, I've listened to many narrations - but this I found the most enjoyable.
Regarding the rest - well, a mixed bag.
About half the stories may well have been entertaining - but I couldn't put up with the narration!
These were mainly American - and read by a couple of narrators (one male & one female, it seemed) with dreadful, drawling accents that I just couldn't stand to listen to.
I don't know if they were English actors putting on an American accent very badly, or actual Americans who just happened to have an accent I couldn't relate to - either way, they were painful to the ear.
In these cases, I skipped to the next track - so don't know how good or bad the actual stories would have been.
Then there was the odd decision to include the chapter numbers in the narration from the King James Bible. The intonation of the likes of "v2", etc. in the middle of the text completely ruined the effect of the Gospel stories, which was sad.
Unfortunately, the collection ended on a very low note - a series of "articles" about such things as "how to decorate a Christmas tree" which I think were supposed to be tongue-in-cheek, but were so boring and were narrated by someone with such a flat delivery that I ended up skipping those as well.
All in all, I think that less than half of the stories were worth listening to - however, Jason Isaacs reading Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" made up for it all!
Some bad, some good - but one outstanding!
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A fabulous festive feast!
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Quantity not quality.
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Depressing and made worse with nasal delivery
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