Now joining Everymanβs Libraryβthe most extensive and distinguished collectible library of the worldβs greatest worksβis 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 centuriesβfrom 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 Bowenβs βGreen Holly.β The plight of the less fortunate haunts Chekhovβs βVankaβ and Willa Catherβs βThe Burglarβs Christmasβ but takes a boisterously comic turn in Damon Runyonβs βDancing Danβs Christmasβ and in John Cheeverβs βChristmas Is a Sad Season for the Poor.β From Vladimir Nabokovβs intensely moving story of a fatherβs grief in βChristmasβ to Truman Capoteβs hilarious yet heartbreaking βA Christmas Memory,β from Grace Paleyβs Jewish girl starring in the Christmas pageant in βThe Loudest Voiceβ to the dysfunctional family ski holiday in Richard Fordβs βCrΓ¨cheββeach 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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