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THE PENGUIN BOOK OF CHRISTMAS STORIES - PENGUIN...

The perfect gift this Christmas season: a generous selection of some of the greatest festive
stories of all time 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.

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