{"product_id":"christmas-stories-isbn-9780307267177","title":"Christmas Stories","description":"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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChristmas Stories\u003c\/i\u003e is a treasury of short fiction by great writers of the  past two centuries. 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGoblins 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 “Crèche”—each of the stories gathered here is  imbued with Christmas spirit (of one kind or another), and all are richly and indelibly  entertaining.\u003cb\u003eCharles Dickens\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Story of the Goblins Who Stole a Sexton\u003cbr\u003e(from \u003ci\u003eThe Pickwick Papers\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNikolai Gogol\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Night Before Christmas\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eArthur Conan Doyle\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Blue Carbuncle\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnthony Trollope\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChristmas at Thompson Hall\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLeo Tolstoy\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhere Love is, God is\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnton Checkhov\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVanka\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWilla Cather\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Burglar's Christmas\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eO. Henry\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA Chapparal Christmas Gift\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSaki (H.H. Munro)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReginald's Christmas Revel\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eVladimir Nabokov\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChristmas\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDamon Runyon\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDancing Dan's Christmas\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEvelyn Waugh\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBella Fleace Gave a Party\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eElizabeth Bowen\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGreen Holly\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn Cheever\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChristmas is a Sad Season for the Poor\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTruman Capote\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA Christmas Memory\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn Updike\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Carol Sing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMuriel Spark\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChristmas Fugue\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eGrace Paley\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Loudest Voice\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlice Munro\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Turkey Season\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRichard Ford\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCreche\u003cp\u003e“A rich and classy story collection (with sewn-in red ribbon bookmark) by such literary greats as Dickens, Tolstoy, Chekhov, Cather, Nabokov, Cheever and Munro. If this were an assortment of chocolates, it would be a feast of the finest dark truffles--not a cheap, waxy bite in the bunch.” –\u003ci\u003eMinneapolis Star-Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Think you’ve heard it all? Every tiny reindeer named, every Grinch ungrinched, all the ho-ho-hum holiday stories tediously read, recited, re-recited, the classics on a constant loop? Maybe not. Here are twenty Christmas tales, from Tolstoy to Richard Ford, as fresh as a Christmas Eve snowfall.” –Charles McNair, \u003ci\u003eNPR.org\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDiana Secker Tesdell\u003c\/b\u003e is the editor of the Everyman's Pocket Classic anthologies \u003ci\u003eChristmas Stories,\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eLove Stories, Dog Stories, Cat Stories, Horse Stories\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNew York Stories\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBedtime Stories, Stories of Art and Artists, Stories of Fatherhood\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eStories of Motherhood, Stories of the Sea\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eStories from the Kitchen, \u003c\/i\u003eand of the Everyman's Library Pocket Poet \u003ci\u003eLullabies and Poems for Children.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Everyman's Library","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303494209765,"sku":"NP9780307267177","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780307267177.jpg?v=1767723712","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/christmas-stories-isbn-9780307267177","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}