# Christmas Stories - Hardcover

by **Diana Secker Tesdell** (Editor)

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 "Cr che"--each of the stories gathered here 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 the Everyman's Pocket Classic anthologies _Christmas Stories,_ _Love Stories, Dog Stories, Cat Stories, Horse Stories_, _New York Stories_, _Bedtime Stories, Stories of Art and Artists, Stories of Fatherhood_, _Stories of Motherhood, Stories of the Sea_, and _Stories from the Kitchen,_ and of the Everyman's Library Pocket Poet _Lullabies and Poems for Children._

**Number of Pages:** 400

**Dimensions:** 1.15 x 7.36 x 4.78 IN

**Publication Date:** October 30, 2007

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