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    Classic Thanksgiving Stories
    Classic Thanksgiving Stories
    Classic Thanksgiving Stories
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    Classic Thanksgiving Stories

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    Get in the mood for Thanksgiving with these eight classic homespun tales of America’s favorite holiday. Featuring stories by L.M. Montgomery, Nathaniel Hawthorne, O.Henry, Harriet Beecher Stowe, George Eliot, and Louisa May Alcott.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDreamscape Media
    Release dateOct 2, 2018
    ISBN9781974929207
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      Classic Thanksgiving Stories - Dreamscape Media

      Table of Contents

      Table of Contents

      About the Authors:

      An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving

      By LOUISA MAY ALCOTT

      How We Kept Thanksgiving at Oldtown

      By HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

      Two Thanksgiving Day Gentlemen

      By O. HENRY

      The Purple Dress

      By O. HENRY

      Aunt Susanna's Thanksgiving Day Dinner

      By L.M. MONTGOMERY

      The Genesis of the Doughnut Club

      By L.M. MONTGOMERY

      John Inglefield's Thanksgiving

      By NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

      An English Dinner of Thanksgiving

      By GEORGE ELIOT

      CLASSIC THANKSGIVING STORIES

      By

      L.M. Montgomery, O. Henry, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Louisa May Alcott, George Eliot, and Nathaniel Hawthorne

      This edition published by Dreamscape Media LLC, 2018

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      About the Authors:

      Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) was a prolific American author known for her novel, Little Women, and its sequels, Little Men and Jo's Boys. She received instruction from several famous authors, including Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Nathaniel Hawthorne, and she is commonly considered to be the foremost female novelist of the Gilded Age. 

      Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896) was a famed abolitionist and author. In 1851, she received $400 (a great sum in her day) for a serialized version of her novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, which went on to be the bestselling novel of the 19th century and the second most-sold book, behind The Bible. The novel’s portrayal of slavery is credited as a catalyst for the slavery debate in the years preceding the Civil War.

      O. Henry (1862-1910) is the pen-name of William Sidney Porter, the American writer born in Greensboro, North Carolina. He was known for a style of writing that featured surprise endings and showed the grim and often humorous effect of coincidence on the lives of his subjects. A keen observer of the lives of Americans from New York to Texas in the early 20th century, his works have been adapted many times for the stage and screen.

      Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874-1942) was a Canadian novelist and the famed author of the Anne Shirley series. She found instant literary fame upon the publication of her first book, Anne of Green Gables. She published 20 novels and 500 short stories during her lifetime and was the first woman to be named a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

      Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) was an acclaimed American novelist. He was born Nathaniel Hathorne in Salem, Massachusetts, though he added a w to his name to distance himself from his family’s involvement in the infamous Salem witch trials of the 1690s. The trials, along with Puritan culture in general, greatly influenced his writings. He is best remembered for his hallmark novels The House of Seven Gables, and The Scarlet Letter.

      George Eliot (1819-1880), the pen name of Mary Ann Evans, was an English novelist, poet, journalist, and translator during the Victorian era. She authored seven novels-including Adam Bede (1859), The Mill on the Floss (1860), and Middlemarch (1871-72)-most of which are set in provincial England and are known for their realism and psychological insight.

      An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving

      By LOUISA MAY ALCOTT

      November, 1881

      SIXTY years ago, up among the New Hampshire hills, lived Farmer Bassett, with a houseful of sturdy sons and daughters growing up about him. They were poor in money, but rich in land and love, for the wide acres of wood, corn, and pasture land fed, warmed, and clothed the flock, while mutual patience, affection, and courage made the old farmhouse a very happy home.

      November had come; the crops were in, and barn, buttery, and bin were overflowing with the harvest that rewarded the summer's hard work. The big kitchen was a jolly place just now, for in the great fireplace roared a cheerful fire; on the walls hung garlands of dried apples, onions, and corn; up aloft from the beams shone crook-necked squashes, juicy hams, and dried venison—for in those days deer still haunted the deep forests, and hunters flourished. Savory smells were in the air; on the crane hung steaming kettles, and down among the red embers copper saucepans simmered, all suggestive of some approaching feast.

      A white-headed baby lay in the old blue cradle that had rocked six other babies, now and then lifting his head to look out, like a round, full moon, then subsided to kick and crow contentedly, and suck the rosy apple he had no teeth to bite. Two small boys sat on the wooden settle shelling corn for popping, and picking out the biggest nuts from the goodly store their own hands had gathered in October. Four young girls stood at the long dresser, busily chopping meat, pounding spice, and slicing apples; and the tongues of Tilly, Prue, Roxy, and Rhody went as fast as their hands. Farmer Bassett, and Eph, the oldest boy, were chorin' 'round outside, for Thanksgiving was at hand, and all must be in order for that time-honored day.

      To and fro, from table to hearth, bustled buxom Mrs. Bassett, flushed and floury, but busy and blithe as the queen bee of this busy little hive should be.

      I do like to begin seasonable and have things to my mind. Thanksgivin' dinners can't be drove, and it does take a sight of victuals to fill all these hungry stomicks, said the good woman, as she gave a vigorous stir to the great kettle of cider applesauce, and cast a glance of housewifely pride at the fine array of pies set forth on the buttery shelves.

      Only one more day and then it will be the time to eat. I didn't take but one bowl of hasty pudding this morning, so I shall have plenty of room when the nice things come, confided Seth to Sol, as he cracked a large hazelnut as easily as a squirrel.

      No need of my starvin' beforehand. I always have room enough, and I'd like to have Thanksgiving every day, answered Solomon, gloating like a young ogre over the little pig that lay near by, ready for roasting.

      Sakes alive, I don't, boys! It's a marcy it don't come but once a year. I should be worn to a thread paper with all this extra work atop of my winter weavin' and spinnin', laughed their mother, as she plunged her plump arms into the long bread trough and began to knead the dough as if a famine were at hand.

      Tilly, the oldest girl, a red-cheeked, black-eyed lass of fourteen, was grinding briskly at the mortar, for spices were costly, and not a grain must be wasted. Prue kept time with the chopper, and the twins sliced away at the apples till their little brown arms ached, for all knew how to work, and did so now with a will.

      I think it's real fun to have Thanksgiving at home. I'm sorry Gran'ma is sick, so we can't go there as usual, but I like to mess 'round here, don't you, girls? asked Tilly, pausing to take a sniff at the spicy pestle.

      It will be kind of lonesome with only our own folks. I like to see all the cousins and aunts, and have games, and sing, cried the twins, who were regular little romps, and could run, swim, coast, and shout as well as their brothers.

      I don't care a mite for all that. It will be so nice to eat dinner together, warm and comfortable at home, said quiet Prue, who loved her own cozy nooks like a cat.

      Come, girls, fly 'round and get your chores done, so we can clear away for dinner jest as soon as I clap my bread into the oven, called Mrs. Bassett presently, as she rounded off the

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