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The Spirit of Christmas

by Henry van Dyke (1852-1933)

A short Christmas book by American author, educator, and clergyman Henry Van Dyke, including a short story, two essays, and two prayers for the season. (summary by Jan MacGillivray)

• Gutenberg e-text
• Wikipedia – Henry van Dyke
• LibriVox’s The Spirit of Christmas Internet Archive page
• Zip file of the entire book – 20.4MB
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Total running time: 0:42:23
Read by Jan MacGillivray

mp3 and ogg files

• 01_A Dream Story: The Christmas Angel – 00:23:33
  [mp3@64kbps - 11.3MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 22.6MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 12.3MB]
• 02_A Little Essay: Christmas-Giving and Christmas-Living – 00:08:09
  [mp3@64kbps - 3.9MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 7.8MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 4.3MB]
• 03_A Short Christmas Sermon: Keeping Christmas – 00:04:00
  [mp3@64kbps - 1.9MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 3.8MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 2.1MB]
• 04_Two Christmas Prayers – 00:06:41
  [mp3@64kbps - 3.2MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 6.4MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 3.5MB]

Cataloged on September 26, 2007