As a literary theme, Christmas has inspired everything from intimate domestic dramas to flights of fantasy, and the entire spectrum of their expression is represented in this wonderful collection. Goblins frolic in a cemetery in an early Dickens story. A lovelorn swain disrupts a country estate in Elizabeth Bowen's 'Green Holly.' Demons, witches, Cossacks, and peasants crowd together in Gogol's 'The Night Before Christmas.' The plight of the less fortunate haunts Chekhov's 'Vanka' and Willa Cather's 'The Christmas Thief,' but takes a lively comic turn in Damon Runyon's story 'Dance of the Dan' and John Cheever's 'Christmas Is a Sad Season for the Poor.' From Nabokov's intensely moving story of a father's grief in 'Christmas' to Truman Capote's funny yet poignant 'A Christmas Memory,' from the Jewish girl in a Christmas pageant in Grace Paley's 'The Loudest Voice' to the dysfunctional family skiing holiday in Richard Ford's 'Creche' - each of these stories is filled with the spirit of Christmas in one way or another, and all are rich and indelibly entertaining.
Pages: 400, Dimensions: 12x12cm
Manufacturer
- Publisher
- Everyman's Library
- Language
- English
- Subtitle
- -
- Cover
- Hardcover
- Number of Pages
- 400
- Publication Date
- 2007
- Dimensions
- 12x18.6 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9781841596006
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