Christmas Stories

Hardback

Main Details

Title Christmas Stories
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Diana Secker Tesdell
SeriesEveryman's Library POCKET CLASSICS
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:400
Dimensions(mm): Height 189,Width 124
Category/GenreShort stories
ISBN/Barcode 9781841596006
ClassificationsDewey:808.83108334
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Everyman
Imprint Everyman's Library
Publication Date 8 November 2007
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

A collection of Christmas stories from Christmas past and present. 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 collection. Goblins frolic in the graveyard of an early Dickens tale; a love-struck ghost disrupts a country estate in Elizabeth Bowen's 'Green Holly'; devils, witches, Cossacks and peasants cavort in Gogol's 'The Night Before Christmas'. 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 John Cheever's 'Christmas is a Sad Season for the Poor'. From 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 in the Christmas pageant in 'The Loudest Voice' to the dysfunctional family ski holiday in Richard Ford's 'Creche' - each of the stories is imbued with Christmas spirit of one kind or another, and all are richly and indelibly entertaining.

Author Biography

Diana Secker Tesdell is the editor of several short-story anthologies in the Everyman Pocket Classics series, including Christmas Stories, Lullabies and Poems for Children, Love Stories, Cat Stories and Stories from the Kitchen.