(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Now joining Everyman's
Library--the most extensive and distinguished collectible library
of the world's greatest works--is an appealing new collection in a
small Pocket Classics format, perfect for gift giving and reading
pleasure. "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 "Creche"--each of the stories gathered
here is imbued with Christmas spirit (of one kind or another), and
all are richly and indelibly entertaining.
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