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Small Hard Cover. Condizione: Fine. No Jacket. Reprint. 2024 13th printing. Brand new from publisher. 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.…

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