Christmas Just So Stories
Written during Victorian times Christmas Just So Stories is Ruyard Kipling's collection of children's stories. One of these highly popular stories is How the Elephant got his Trunk.

Written during Victorian times Christmas Just So Stories is Ruyard Kipling's collection of children's stories. One of these highly popular stories is How the Elephant got his Trunk.

Three Ghost Stories by Charles Dickens originally appeared as Christmas tales.

Christmas The Stories of the Three Burglars, Frank Richard Stockton, Fiction.

Christmas The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories is a collection of nine more often witty short stories by Mark Twain, including the titles The £1,000,000 Bank-Note, The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg, The Five Boons of Life, Was It Heaven? Or Hell? and The Mysterious Stranger

Wells' early novels continued in the science fiction mode of The Time Machine.

Christmas Stories From Hans Andersen. Illustrated by Edmund Dulac. This collection first published in London by Hodder & Stoughton, (1911) Seven children's stories by the celebrated master story-teller with illustrations by the master illustrator of the 19th and 20th centuries.

Because," replied Loki, "the gold can be made into a magic ring; if the one who would make the ring will forever give up all love, the magic ring will make its owner master of the whole wide world. Alberich declared that love was nothing to him if he could have all the gold he wanted.

Alonzo opened his lips to say, "You ought to print that, and get it framed," but checked himself, for he heard his aunt speaking to some one else.

As I sit writing in my study, I can hear our Jane bumping her way downstairs with a brush and dust-pan. She used in the old days to sing hymn tunes, or the British national song for the time being, to these instruments, but latterly she has been silent and even careful over her work.

Christmas Stories by Foreign Authors: Russian includes pieces by Ivan Turgenev, Alexander Poushkin, Nikolai Vasilievitch Gogol, Lyof N. Tolstoi.

Christmas The Best American Humorous Short Stories, Humorous Short Stories

But, one day, of a sudden, the traveller lost the child. He called to him over and over again, but got no answer. So, he went upon his road, and went on for a little while without meeting anything, until at last he came to a handsome boy. So, he said to the boy, "What do you do here?" And the boy said, "I am always learning. Come and learn with me."