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Christmas
stories
/ edited by Diana Secker Tesdell.
Alfred A. Knopf, c2007.
Call #:
FICTION CHR
Series
Everyman's pocket classics
ISBN:
9780307267177 (alk. paper)
Description:
395 p. ; 19 cm.
Contents:
The story of the goblins who stole a sexton (from The Pickwick papers) / Charles Dickens -- The night before
Christmas
/ Nikolai Gogol -- The blue carbuncle / Arthur Conan Doyle --
Christmas
at Thompson Hall / Anthony Trollope -- Where love is, God is / Leo Tolstoy -- Vanka / Anton Chekhov -- The burglar's
Christmas
/ Willa Cather -- A chapparal
Christmas
gift / O. Henry -- Reginald's
Christmas
revel / Saki (H.H. Munro) --
Christmas
/ Vladimir Nabokov -- Dancing Dan's
Christmas
/ Damon Runyon -- Bella Fleace gave a party / Evelyn Waugh -- Green holly / Elizabeth Bowen --
Christmas
is a sad season for the poor / John Cheever -- A
Christmas
memory / Truman Capote -- The carol sing / John Updike --
Christmas
fugue / Muriel Spark -- The loudest voice / Grace Paley -- The turkey season / Alice Munro -- Créche / Richard Ford.
Summary:
"
Christmas
Stories
is a treasury of short fiction by great writers of the past two centuries—from 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 “Crèche”—each of the
stories
gathered here is imbued with
Christmas
spirit (of one kind or another), and all are richly and indelibly entertaining."--Publisher.
Genre:
Christmas
stories
.
Short
stories
.
Other authors:
Tesdell, Diana Secker.
Holds:
2
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Bedford Public Library
Adult Christmas Fiction
FICTION CHR
Adult books
Storage - Seasonal
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Captain William Spry Public Library
Adult Christmas Fiction
FICTION CHR
Adult books
Storage - Seasonal
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