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Old Christmas

by Washington Irving (1783-1859)

A tale of the quaint and old English traditions of celebrating Christmas. Irving travels to the English countryside and meets an old schoolmate, who invites him home to spend Christmas at the family estate.
(Summary written by Gesine)

• The Open Library’s Illustrated version
• Gutenberg e-text #1850
• Illustrated PDF on archive.org
• Wikipedia - Washington Irving
• LibriVox’s Old Christmas Internet Archive page
• Bit Torrent of the entire book
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• Christmas - 00:11:45
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  [mp3@128kbps - 11.3MB]
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  Read by: Alex Foster
• The Stage Coach - 00:18:27
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  [mp3@128kbps - 17.7MB]
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  Read by: Kara Shallenberg
• Christmas Eve - 00:21:05
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  [ogg vorbis - 17.2MB]
  Read by: Kristen McQuillin
• Christmas Day - 00:28:49
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  Read by: Mark Bradford
• The Christmas Dinner - 00:32:00
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  [ogg vorbis - 25.4MB]
  Read by: Kara Shallenberg