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More copies of this ISBN:This title in other formats:Christmas Storiesby Diana Secke Tesdell
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Now joining Everyman’s Library—the most extensive and distinguished collectible library of the world’s greatest works—is an appealing new collection in a small Pocket Classics format, perfect for gift giving and reading pleasure. Christmas Stories is a treasury of short fiction by great writers of the past two centuries—from Dickens and Tolstoy to John Updike and Alice Munro. As a literary subject, Christmas has inspired everything from intimate domestic dramas to fanciful flights of the imagination, and the full range of its expression is represented in this wonderfully engaging anthology. Goblins frolic in the graveyard of an early Dickens tale and a love-struck ghost disrupts a country estate in Elizabeth Bowen’s “Green Holly.” The plight of the less fortunate haunts Chekhov’s “Vanka” and Willa Cather’s “The Burglar’s Christmas” but takes a boisterously comic turn in Damon Runyon’s “Dancing Dan’s Christmas” and in John Cheever’s “Christmas Is a Sad Season for the Poor.” From Vladimir Nabokov’s intensely moving story of a father’s grief in “Christmas” to Truman Capote’s hilarious yet heartbreaking “A Christmas Memory,” from Grace Paley’s Jewish girl starring in the Christmas pageant in “The Loudest Voice” to the dysfunctional family ski holiday in Richard Ford’s “Crèche”—each of the stories gathered here is imbued with Christmas spirit (of one kind or another), and all are richly and indelibly entertaining. Review:“Like all things truly valuable, Everyman’s Library is priceless.” Toni Morrison Review:“Everyman is everything a reader could wish for. Everyone should have every book and read one every day.” Salman Rushdie Synopsis:This collection is a treasury of short fiction by great writers of the past two centuries. As a literary subject, Christmas has inspired everything from intimate domestic dramas to fanciful flights of the imagination, and the full range of its expression is represented in this anthology. About the AuthorDiana Secker Tesdell is the editor of the Everyman's Library Pocket Poet Lullabies and Poems for Children. Table of ContentsCharles Dickens The Story of the Goblins Who Stole a Sexton (from The Pickwick Papers) Nikolai Gogol The Night Before Christmas Arthur Conan Doyle The Blue Carbuncle Anthony Trollope Christmas at Thompson Hall Leo Tolstoy Where Love is, God is Anton Checkhov Vanka Willa Cather The Burglar's Christmas O. Henry A Chapparal Christmas Gift Saki (H.H. Munro) Reginald's Christmas Revel Vladimir Nabokov Christmas Damon Runyon Dancing Dan's Christmas Evelyn Waugh Bella Fleace Gave a Party Elizabeth Bowen Green Holly John Cheever Christmas is a Sad Season for the Poor Truman Capote A Christmas Memory John Updike The Carol Sing Muriel Spark Christmas Fugue Grace Paley The Loudest Voice Alice Munro The Turkey Season Richard Ford Creche What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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