Description

Author/Contributor(s):	Tesdell, Diana Secker
Publisher:	Everyman’s Library
Date:	10/30/2007
Binding:	Hardcover
Condition:	NEW

Now joining Everyman’s Library—the most extensiveand distinguished collectible library of the world’s greatest works—is an appealingnew collection in a small Pocket Classics format, perfect for gift giving and readingpleasure.

Christmas Stories is a treasury of short fiction by great writers of thepast two centuries. As aliterary subject, Christmas has inspired everything from intimate domestic dramasto fanciful flights of the imagination, and the full range of its expression is representedin this wonderfully engaging anthology.

Goblins frolic in the graveyard of an earlyDickens 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 WillaCather’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 thePoor.” 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’sJewish girl starring in the Christmas pageant in “The Loudest Voice” to the dysfunctionalfamily ski holiday in Richard Ford’s “Crèche”—each of the stories gathered here isimbued with Christmas spirit (of one kind or another), and all are richly and indeliblyentertaining.