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This audiobook includes unabridged recordings of 10 of Charles Dickens' great novels in one audiobook. The novels included here are A Tale of Two Cities, Bleak House, Great Expectations, The Old Curiosity Shop, Oliver Twist, Nicholas Nickleby, Our Mutual Friend, Little Dorrit, Dombey and Son and A Christmas Carol.

Washington Irving's Old Christmas tells of an American's travels through England during the Christmas season. Through a chance meeting with an old friend, he is able to experience Christmas in a stately manor house. Through his eyes as a houseguest, he glimpses the uniquely British customs and celebrations of Christmas as it would have been experienced during the Middle Ages, rather than in the early 19th century.

Step into a Winter Wonderland with Old-Time Christmas Radio ShowsThe holiday season is upon us, and what better way to get into the festive spirit than by revisiting the golden age of radio? Old-time Christmas radio shows offer a unique window into the past, a time when families would gather around the radio for entertainment, much like we do today with our streaming services.These vintage broadcasts bring back the simplicity and warmth of the holiday season from decades ago. You can expect to hear heartwarming tales of Christmas miracles, laugh-out-loud comedies featuring your favorite ...

Not so very long ago, Yuletide was as much a chilling season of ghosts and witches as it was a festival of goodwill. In The Old Magic of Christmas, you'll rub elbows with veiled spirits, learn the true perils of elves, and discover a bestiary of enchanted creatures. Rife with the more frightful characters from folklore and the season's most petulant ghosts, this book takes you on a spooky sleigh ride from the silvered firs of a winter forest to the mirrored halls of the Snow Queen.

"Old Christmas" is a charming and nostalgic book written by Washington Irving, first published in 1819. In this classic work, Irving takes readers on a journey to the English countryside, where he describes the customs, traditions, and festivities surrounding the Christmas season as they were celebrated in rural England during the early 19th century.Through vivid storytelling, Irving paints a vivid picture of the warmth and merriment that characterized Christmas in the past, contrasting it with the more modern and commercialized celebrations of his own time. He introduces readers to the ...

True Christmas and holiday stories from the life of Dr. Rayna M. Gangi.

Emily Brown and her sidekick rabbit, Stanley, are back! And who's that outside the window...it's Father Christmas! This year, Father Christmas has a brand-new turbo-charged sleigh, complete with jet-thingummys and even a sat-nav. But it's not going quite to plan.... Can Emily Brown and Stanley save Christmas with the power of old-fashioned magic? With an important message about cherishing traditions that children will understand, this is classic storytelling at its best. Written by Cressida Cowell, the best-selling author of the How to Train Your Dragon series.

Julia has followed her mum and dad to live on a remote island for the summer - her dad, for work; her mother, on a determined mission to find the elusive Greenland shark. But when her mother's obsession threatens to submerge them all, Julia finds herself on an adventure with dark depths and a lighthouse full of hope.

Ho Ho Ho and Merry Christmas! Santa has his sack just packed full of old time radio shows. And if you are good, Santa will be podcasting these heart warming and family fun shows from the Golden Age of Radio.

Born prematurely, Christoff wasn't as big or as strong as his older brother or the other younglings in the village. Unable to fit in, he does the best he can, helping his father and mother on their farm. His life changes when the mountain near their farm awakens. Believing he is the only one who can quiet it, he retreats to the mountain to watch over the village that shunned him. A hermit for centuries, he dreams of the day he can move on to his next life - a life that he hopes will give him a chance to find his true mate.

In "Old Christmas" we join in the celebrations of a Christmas Eve and a Christmas Day in Old England. The selection from The Pickwick Papers involves a Dickensian skating party.

Enjoy Christmas Old Time Radio detective programs. From Sherlock Holmes to Yours Truly Johnny Dollar, Richard Diamond, Nero Wolfe, and so many more, celebrate the Holiday Season with mystery, adventure, and a few heartwarming thrown in for good measure. These episodes are taken from the larger Great Detective of Old Time Radio podcast, which have been presenting all of radio's great detectives since 2009.

Welcome to "Santa's Mindful Christmas" – a magical journey of mindfulness for kids (6-12 years old)! In this Guided Meditation Audiobook, Santa Claus will guide your child through 12 special mindfulness meditations playfully using the ancient technique of Mindful Breathing (Anapanasati), focusing on the sensations (Vipassana).

For listeners who are tired of Christmas commercialism, or who feel that Santa Claus and reindeer don’t tell the whole story, these classic gems provide a winning alternative. Selected for their insightfulness, spiritual value, and literary quality (nothing moralistic here) they project the spirit of the season in a fresh, compelling manner that will resonate with listeners of all ages - from children too young to read to themselves, to parents and grandparents who enjoy listening to stories, as well.

The Christmasaurus wants more than anything to be able to fly and help pull Santa's sleigh across the sky at Christmas-time. But flying turns out to be a lot harder than he thought, even with Santa's help! One special Christmas, however, he falls down a chimney and meets a dinosaur-obsessed little boy who teaches him the magic of believing.

So...'tis the season to be jolly, is it? Well, not in the household of the Grumpy Old Man it isn't. In the case of the GOM, 'tis the season to have to put up with even deeper layers of vexation than usual, and the only thing worth celebrating is that it looks as though you might, after all, be surviving to the end of what has been another crap year.

Charles Dickens is just great, this is just a short little note about how we change as we get older and how Christmas becomes more for others and less about ourselves as we get older.

Peter Christen Asbjørnsen (1812-1885) was a Norwegian writer, scholar and collector of traditional folktales. 'An Old Fashioned Christmas Eve' describes a young Norwegian soldier recovering from an illness who finds himself stranded on Christmas Eve with a family who sit around the fire telling a series of quite extraordinary folktales and ghost stories.

This booklet covers most of the known Christmas customs at this famous old seaport. It is based on the script of a radio program that I wrote and narrated for BBC Radio Cleveland in 1991 and it was broadcast on Christmas day of that year. Whitby was the port where Captain Cook, the famous Royal Navy explorer and navigator learnt his trade from Quaker shipbuilders and he no doubt experienced, if not participated in this book's customs as a young apprentice seaman.

Christmas approaches, despite illness sweeping through 1870s Cleveland. Carmen, Brogan and the underground community struggle to protect the orphans and destitute who shelter with them, and find ways to celebrate, despite the dangers. Hidden Mountain becomes a haven and a source of miracles, far from the blizzards and dropping temperatures.