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THE PENGUIN BOOK OF CHRISTMAS STORIES GEBUNDEN

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.

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