![]() ![]() You can read these Christmas stories online for free, print them out, or download them for free to your e-reader. And I’ve included New Year’s stories as well, since Christmas was historically seen as a twelve-day period, beginning on December 25th and ending on January 5th, or Twelfth Night. There’s also a range of “takes” on Christmas in these stories: from traditional Christmas stories to fantastical, funny and humorous to serious or sweet. Frank Baum–author of The Wizard of Oz–wrote a Christmas fantasy story about Santa Claus getting kidnapped by daemons? Or that Washington Irving–the man known for his Halloween tale “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”–also wrote Christmas stories that would serve as inspiration for A Christmas Carol? Some of the authors on this list might surprise you, as they did me. I had so much fun rounding up a few of these Christmas stories from famous authors for you to enjoy here! Since that first Christmas story from 2,000 years ago, the holiday season has grown up with hundreds of Christmas stories both religious and secular that reflect what the season means to us. Between them, the first few chapters of these books cover the birth of Jesus, and the familiar stories of the angels, shepherds, and wise men that we see depicted in Christmas pageants and ornaments and nativity scenes today. The most classic Christmas story can be found in the books of Mathew and Luke, from the Bible.
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