{"product_id":"christmas-stories-9780307267177","title":"Christmas Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003eNow joining Everyman's Library--the most extensive and distinguished collectible library of the world's greatest works--is an appealing new collection in a small Pocket Classics format, perfect for gift giving and reading pleasure.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eChristmas Stories\u003c\/i\u003e is a treasury of short fiction by great writers of the past two centuries--from Dickens and Tolstoy to John Updike and Alice Munro. As a literary subject, Christmas has inspired everything from intimate domestic dramas to fanciful flights of the imagination, and the full range of its expression is represented in this wonderfully engaging anthology.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGoblins frolic in the graveyard of an early Dickens tale and a love-struck ghost disrupts a country estate in Elizabeth Bowen's \"Green Holly.\" The plight of the less fortunate haunts Chekhov's \"Vanka\" and Willa Cather's \"The Burglar's Christmas\" but takes a boisterously comic turn in Damon Runyon's \"Dancing Dan's Christmas\" and in John Cheever's \"Christmas Is a Sad Season for the Poor.\" From Vladimir Nabokov's intensely moving story of a father's grief in \"Christmas\" to Truman Capote's hilarious yet heartbreaking \"A Christmas Memory,\" from Grace Paley's Jewish girl starring in the Christmas pageant in \"The Loudest Voice\" to the dysfunctional family ski holiday in Richard Ford's \"Cr che\"--each of the stories gathered here is imbued with Christmas spirit (of one kind or another), and all are richly and indelibly entertaining.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Everyman's Library\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/30\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780307267177\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 400\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.92lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.36h x 4.78w x 1.15d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/01\/2007 pg. 62\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Diana Secker Tesdell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44087330504885,"sku":"9780307267177","price":21.25,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_f6128be2-7200-431a-ba2a-d012e5c9fa98.jpg?v=1714457612","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/christmas-stories-9780307267177","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}