Cover of Christmas Stories

Book 2007

Christmas Stories

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Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Language
English
Published
2007
  • short stories
  • carbuncles
  • Christmas dinners
  • commissionaires
  • Fiction
  • Private investigators
  • Christmas stories
  • American Christmas stories

The story of the goblins who stole a sexton (from The Pickwick papers) / Charles Dickens --
The night before Christmas / Nikolai Gogol --
Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle / Arthur Conan Doyle --
Christmas at Thompson Hall / Anthony Trollope --
Where love is, God is / Leo Tolstoy --
Vanka / Anton Chekhov --
The burglar's Christmas / Willa Cather --
A chapparal Christmas gift / O. Henry --
Reginald's Christmas revel / Saki (H.H. Munro) --
Christmas / Vladimir Nabokov --
Dancing Dan's Christmas / Damon Runyon --
Bella Fleace gave a party / Evelyn Waugh --
Green holly / Elizabeth Bowen --
Christmas is a sad season for the poor / John Cheever --
A Christmas memory / Truman Capote --
The carol sing / John Updike --
Christmas fugue / Muriel Spark --
The loudest voice / Grace Paley --
The turkey season / Alice Munro --
Créche / Richard Ford.