Seller: Yesterday's Muse, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA, Webster, NY, U.S.A.
Small Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. Reprint. Reprint. Brand new from publisher. 2021 Small Hard Cover. vii, 271, [1] pp. This is a collection of the most magical, moving, chilling and surprising Christmas stories from around the world, taking us from frozen Nordic woods to glittering Paris, a New York speakeasy to an English country house, bustling Lagos to midnight mass in Rio, and even outer space. Here are classic tales from writers including Truman Capote, Shirley Jackson, Dylan Thomas, Saki and Chekhov, as well as little-known treasures such as Italo Calvino's wry sideways look at Christmas consumerism, Wolfdietrich Schnurre's story of festive ingenuity in Berlin, Selma Lagerlof's enchanted forest in Sweden, and Irene Nemerovsky's dark family portrait. Featuring santas, ghosts, trolls, unexpected guests, curmudgeons and miracles, here is Christmas as imagined by some of the greatest short story writers of all time. Includes: The Fir Tree; The Cat on the Dovrefjell; A Christmas Party and a Wedding; St Anthony and His Pig; Boys; Midnight Mass; Reginald's Christmas Revel; The Legend of the Christmas Rose; A Chaparral Christmas Gift; Noel; Dancing Dan's Christmas; The Necklace of Pearls; One Christmas Eve; The Christmas Turkey; Green Holly; Christmas Morning; A Child's Christmas in Wales; The Little Restaurant Near Place des Ternes; The Gift; A Visit to the Bank; The Prisoners; The Leaf-Sweeper; A Christmas Memory; The Loan; Christmas Eve; The Loudest Voice; A Cold Christmas Walk in the Country; Santa's Children; Christmas; Just Because of Xmas; Noel. Texas. 1956; The Ghost Ships.
Soft Cover. Condition: Good. Ex-library with the usual features. Library label on front cover. The interior is clean and tight. Binding and cover are good. Ex-Library.
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Seller: California Books, Miami, FL, U.S.A.
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Seller: Ria Christie Collections, Uxbridge, United Kingdom
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Language: English
Published by Morgan & Claypool Publishers, 2013
ISBN 10: 1608458555 ISBN 13: 9781608458554
Seller: Mispah books, Redhill, SURRE, United Kingdom
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Seller: Brook Bookstore On Demand, Napoli, NA, Italy
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Language: English
Published by Springer, Berlin|Springer International Publishing|Morgan & Claypool|Springer, 2013
ISBN 10: 3031006100 ISBN 13: 9783031006104
Seller: moluna, Greven, Germany
Condition: New. Dieser Artikel ist ein Print on Demand Artikel und wird nach Ihrer Bestellung fuer Sie gedruckt. Multithreaded architectures now appear across the entire range of computing devices, from the highest-performing general purpose devices to low-end embedded processors. Multithreading enables a processor core to more effectively utilize its computational re.