The Penguin Book of Christmas Stories

From Hans Christian Andersen to Angela Carter

Buch | Hardcover

288 Seiten

2021
Penguin Classics (Verlag)
978-0-241-45565-4 (ISBN)

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The perfect gift this Christmas season: a generous selection of some of the greatest festive stories of all time - now in a beautiful clothbound edition

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 Irène 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.

Jessica Harrison (editor) is the editorial director of Penguin Classics UK.

Erscheinungsdatum	01.10.2021
Reihe/Serie	Penguin Clothbound Classics
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	120 x 188 mm
Gewicht	390 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Anthologien
	Literatur ► Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker
	Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
ISBN-10	0-241-45565-0 / 0241455650
ISBN-13	978-0-241-45565-4 / 9780241455654
Zustand	Neuware