{"product_id":"christmas-stories-hardcover","title":"Christmas Stories - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDiana Secker Tesdell\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNow 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eChristmas Stories\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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 \"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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\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 \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 400\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.15 x 7.36 x 4.78 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 30, 2007\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51763985285408,"sku":"9780307267177","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/97b6d21489a5381b552614b2f29b9d57.webp?v=1780243193","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/christmas-stories-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}