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THE PENGUIN BOOK OF CHRISTMAS STORIES GEBUNDEN

The ultimate festive anthology of the best Christmas stories of all time  selected from around
the worldA Penguin Classics HardcoverThis 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.

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