The Thanksgiving MEGAPACK™: 35 Holiday Classics for Thanksgiving

By O. Henry, Mary Wilkins Freeman, George Eliot and 2 more

Thanksgiving is an American tradition, celebrating the coming of autumn, the bounty of the harvest, the peaceful coexistence of the Pilgrims and the Native Americans, football, family -- and, of course, the obligatory celebration feast. Here are 35 tales celebrating Thanksgiving in all its forms, by classic authors you know and love (O. Henry, Harriet Becher Stowe, Nathaniel Hawthorne) and others who may be new to you.

Included are:

TWO THANKSGIVING DAY GENTLEMEN, by O. Henry

HENRY HERBERT'S THANKSGIVING, by W.H.H. Murray

JOHN NORTON'S THANKSGIVING PARTY, by W.H.H. Murray

ANN MARY: HER TWO THANKSGIVINGS, by Mary Wilkins Freeman

GRAND'THER BALDWIN’S THANKSGIVING, by Horatio Alger

SKINNY'S TURKEY DINNER, by Mary E. Marcy

EZRA’S THANKSGIVIN' OUT WEST, by Eugene Field

WHO ATE THE DOLLY'S DINNER? by Isabel Gordon Curtis

THE KINGDOM OF THE GREEDY, by P. J. Stahl

THANKFUL, by Mary Wilkins Freeman

BEETLE RING'S THANKSGIVING MASCOT, by Sheldon C. Stoddard

MISTRESS ESTEEM ELLIOTT'S MOLASSES CAKE, by Kate Upson Clark

THE FIRST THANKSGIVING, by Albert F. Blaisdell and Francis K. Ball

THANKSGIVING AT TODD'S ASYLUM, by Winthrop Packard

HOW WE KEPT THANKSGIVING AT OLDTOWN, by Harriet Beecher Stowe

WISHBONE VALLEY, by R. K. Munkittrick

PATEM'S SALMAGUNDI, by E. S. Brooks

MRS. NOVEMBER'S DINNER PARTY, by Agnes Carr

THE VISIT, by Maud Lindsay

BERT'S THANKSGIVING, by J. T. Trowbridge

JOHN INGLEFIELD'S THANKSGIVING, by Nathaniel Hawthorne

HOW OBADIAH BROUGHT ABOUT A THANKSGIVING, by Emily Hewitt Leland

THE WHITE TURKEY'S WING, by Sophie Swett

THE THANKSGIVING GOOSE, by Fannie Wilder Brown

AN ENGLISH DINNER OF THANKSGIVING, by George Eliot

CHIP'S THANKSGIVING, by Annie Hamilton Donnell

THE MASTER OF THE HARVEST, by Mrs. Alfred Gatty

A THANKSGIVING DINNER, by Edna Payson Brett

TWO OLD BOYS, by Pauline Shackleford Colyar

A THANKSGIVING DINNER THAT FLEW AWAY, by Hezekiah Butterworth

MON-DAW-MIN, OR THE ORIGIN OF INDIAN CORN, by H. R. Schoolcraft

A MYSTERY IN THE KITCHEN, by Olive Thorne Miller

AN OLD-FASHIONED THANKSGIVING, by Rose Terry Cooke

1800 AND FROZE TO DEATH, by C. A. Stephens

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Wildside Press
• Release date: Nov 25, 2014
• ISBN: 9781479404537

O. Henry

O. Henry (1862-1910) was an American short story writer. Born and raised in North Carolina, O. Henry—whose real name was William Sydney Porter—moved to Texas in 1882 in search of work. He met and married Athol Estes in Austin, where he became well known as a musician and socialite. In 1888, Athol gave birth to a son who died soon after, and in 1889 a daughter named Margaret was born. Porter began working as a teller and bookkeeper at the First National Bank of Austin in 1890 and was fired four years later and accused of embezzlement. Afterward, he began publishing a satirical weekly called The Rolling Stone, but in 1895 he was arrested in Houston following an audit of his former employer. While waiting to stand trial, Henry fled to Honduras, where he lived for six months before returning to Texas to surrender himself upon hearing of Athol’s declining health. She died in July of 1897 from tuberculosis, and Porter served three years at the Ohio Penitentiary before moving to Pittsburgh to care for his daughter. While in prison, he began publishing stories under the pseudonym “O. Henry,” finding some success and launching a career that would blossom upon his release with such short stories as “The Gift of the Magi” (1905) and “The Ransom of Red Chief” (1907). He is recognized as one of America’s leading writers of short fiction, and the annual O. Henry Award—which has been won by such writers as William Faulkner, John Updike, and Eudora Welty—remains one of America’s most prestigious literary prizes.

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