THE PENGUIN BOOK OF CHRISTMAS STORIES
Harrison, Jessica (editor) (Shirley Jackson; Muriel Spark; Truman Capote; Laurie Lee; Angela Carter; Fyodor Dostoyevsky; Paul Arene; Anton Chekhov; Saki; Selma Lagerlof; O. Henry; Irene Nemirovsky; Damon Runyon; Dorothy L. Sayers; Langston Hughes; Mario de Andrade; Elizabeth Bowen; Frank O' Connor; Dylan Thomas; Georges Simenon; Ray Bradbury)
Language: English
Published by Penguin Books, London, 2019
- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used
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(vii) 272 pp. Red boards lettered in white on the spine; dark blue endpapers; headband; ribbon marker. Lightly rubbed on the corners of the dustjacket; price intact; small ink mark on the lower edge of the text block; no interior markings. Dustjacket art by Eyvind Earle. This anthology contains: A Visit to the Bank by Shirley Jackson; A Child's Christmas in Wales by Dylan Thomas; The Little Restaurant Near Place des Ternes by Georges Simenon; The Gift by Ray Bradbury; The Loaf Sweeper by Muriel Spark; A Christmas Memory by Truman Capote; A Cold Christmas Walk in the Country by Laurie Lee; The Ghost Ships by Angela Carter; A Christmas Party and a Wedding by Fyodor Dostoyevsky; St. Anthony and His Pig by Paul Arene; Boys by Anton Chekhov; Midnight Mass by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis; Reginald's Christmas Revel by Saki; The Legend of the Christmas Rose by Selma Lagerlof; A Chaparral Christmas Gift by O. Henry; Noel by Irene Nemirovsky; Dancing Dan's Christmas by Damon Runyon; The Necklace of Pearls by Dorothy L. Sayers; One Christmas Eve by Langston Hughes; The Christmas Turkey by Mario de Andrade; Green Holly by Elizabeth Bowen; Christmas Morning by Frank O' Connor; The Fir Tree by Hans Christian Andersen; The Cat on teh Dovrefjell by Peter Christen Asbjornson and Jorgen Moe; The Loan by Wolfdietrich Schnurre; Christmas Eve by Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen; The Loudest voice by Grace Paley; Santa's Children by Italo Calvino; Christmas by Tove Jansson; Just Becauise of Xmas by Cyprian Ekwensi; and Noel, Texas, 1956 by Lucia Berlin. Size: 8vo.…
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- Title
- THE PENGUIN BOOK OF CHRISTMAS STORIES
- Author
- Harrison, Jessica (editor) (Shirley Jackson; Muriel Spark; Truman Capote; Laurie Lee; Angela Carter; Fyodor Dostoyevsky; Paul Arene; Anton Chekhov; Saki; Selma Lagerlof; O. Henry; Irene Nemirovsky; Damon Runyon; Dorothy L. Sayers; Langston Hughes; Mario de Andrade; Elizabeth Bowen; Frank O' Connor; Dylan Thomas; Georges Simenon; Ray Bradbury)
- Publisher
- Penguin Books, London
- Publication year
- 2019
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Dust jacket
- Near Fine
- Book Type
- Book
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0241396697
- ISBN 13
- 9780241396698
- Illustrator
- Eyvind Earle;
- Edition
- 1st Edition.
- Seller catalogs
- Christmas Books
A Penguin Classics Hardcover
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 Irène 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.
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