First edition of Christmas Stories - Everyman's Pocket Classics. Short stories and extracts of works by Charles Dickens, Arthur Conan Doyle, Anton Chekhov, Willa Cather, Alice Munro, and other authors.
Compiled by Diana Secker Tesdall. 2007, first edition thus. Everyman's Pocket Classics. A Borzoi Book, an imprint of Alfred A. Knopf.
Christmas Stories is an outstanding anthology of short stories and book extracts compiled for Everyman's Library, founded in 1906 in England by publisher J. M. Dent, whose vision was to publish affordable pocket editions of the great books.
Suitable for confident young readers, and a wonderful book for reading aloud during the holidays.
Charles Dickens: The Story of the Goblins Who Stole a Sexton (from the Pickwick Papers)
Nikolai Gogol: The Night Before Christmas
Arthur Conan Doyle: The Blue Carbuncle
Anthony Trollope: Christmas at Thomson Hall
Anton Checkov: Vanka
Willa Cather: The Burglar's Christmas
O. Henry: A Chapparal Christmas Gift
Saki (H. H. Munro): Reginald's Christmas Revel
Vladimir Nabokov: Christmas
Damon Runyon: Dancing Dan's Christmas
Evelyn Waugh: Bella Fleace Gave a Party
Elizabeth Bowen: Green Holly
John Cheever: Chritmas is a Sad Season for the Poor
Truman Capote: A Christmas Memory
John Updyke: The Carol Song
Muriel Spark: Christmas Fugue
Alice Munro: The Turkey Season
Richard Ford: Creche
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