Description: Further DetailsTitle: The Penguin Book of Christmas StoriesCondition: NewSubtitle: From Hans Christian Andersen to Angela CarterISBN-10: 0241455650EAN: 9780241455654ISBN: 9780241455654Publisher: Penguin ClassicsFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 10/07/2021Description: The perfect gift this Christmas season: a generous selection of some of the greatest festive stories of all time - now in a beautiful clothbound editionThis 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.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: GBItem Height: 187mmItem Length: 120mmItem Width: 29mmItem Weight: 317gContributor: Jessica Harrison (Edited by)Author: Jessica HarrisonGenre: FictionBook Series: Penguin Clothbound ClassicsTopic: Classic Fiction, Literary CriticismRelease Year: 2021 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: The Penguin Book of Christmas Stories
Title: The Penguin Book of Christmas Stories
Subtitle: From Hans Christian Andersen to Angela Carter
ISBN-10: 0241455650
EAN: 9780241455654
ISBN: 9780241455654
Release Date: 10/07/2021
Release Year: 2021
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Contributor: Jessica Harrison (Edited by)
Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics
Original Language: Multiple Languages
Book Title: Penguin Book of Christmas Stories : from Hans Christian Andersen to Angela Carter
Number of Pages: 288 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Item Height: 1 in
Publication Year: 2022
Topic: Holidays, Classics, Anthologies (Multiple Authors)
Genre: Fiction
Item Weight: 10.8 Oz
Item Length: 7.4 in
Author: Jessica Harrison
Item Width: 4.8 in
Book Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics Ser.
Format: Hardcover
