Christmas Stories

by TESDELL, DIANA SECKER

• ISBN13: 9780307267177
• ISBN10: 0307267172
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-10-30
• Publisher: Everyman's Library

Summary

Now joining Everyman's Librarythe most extensive and distinguished collectible library of the world's greatest worksis an appealing new collection in a small Pocket Classics format, perfect for gift giving and reading pleasure. Christmas Storiesis a treasury of short fiction by great writers of the past two centuriesfrom 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 "Creche"each of the stories gathered here is imbued with Christmas spirit (of one kind or another), and all are richly and indelibly entertaining.

Author Biography

Diana Secker Tesdell is the editor of the Everyman's Library Pocket Poet Lullabies and Poems for Children.

Table of Contents

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

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