Christmas Stories

Condition: BRAND NEW ISBN: 9780307267177 Author(s): Diana Secker Tesdell Format: Hardcover Language: English Year: 2007 Publisher: Random House USA Inc Pages: 400 Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Classics Series

Description: Now joining Everymanâs Libraryâthe most extensive and distinguished collectible library of the worldâs greatest worksâis 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 centuriesâfrom 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 Bowenâs âGreen Holly.â The plight of the less fortunate haunts Chekhovâs âVankaâ and Willa Catherâs âThe Burglarâs Christmasâ but takes a boisterously comic turn in Damon Runyonâs âDancing Danâs Christmasâ and in John Cheeverâs âChristmas Is a Sad Season for the Poor.â From Vladimir Nabokovâs intensely moving story of a fatherâs grief in âChristmasâ to Truman Capoteâs hilarious yet heartbreaking âA Christmas Memory,â from Grace Paleyâs Jewish girl starring in the Christmas pageant in âThe Loudest Voiceâ to the dysfunctional family ski holiday in Richard Fordâs âCrècheââeach of the stories gathered here is imbued with Christmas spirit (of one kind or another), and all are richly and indelibly entertaining.

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