The Penguin Book Of Christmas Stories
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The Penguin Book Of Christmas Stories
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Author : Jessica Harrison
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2019-10-03
The Penguin Book Of Christmas Stories written by Jessica Harrison and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-03 with Fiction categories.
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.
The Penguin Book Of Christmas Stories
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Author : Penguin Classics
language : en
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Release Date : 2022-09-27
The Penguin Book Of Christmas Stories written by Penguin Classics and has been published by National Geographic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-09-27 with Fiction categories.
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.
A Christmas Carol And Other Christmas Writings
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Author : Charles Dickens
language : en
Publisher: Modernista
Release Date : 2023-11-21
A Christmas Carol And Other Christmas Writings written by Charles Dickens and has been published by Modernista this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-11-21 with categories.
A Christmas Carol is Charles Dickens’ most famous book and arguably the world’s most read Christmas story. Here, we follow Ebenezer Scrooge, a miserly and mean-spirited businessman, who undergoes a total transformation and becomes a kind person after being haunted by ghosts on Christmas Eve. It is one of the great classics of world literature, here accompanied by other classics from Dickens’ Christmas repertoire, like A Christmas Tree and The Seven Poor Travellers. CHARLES DICKENS [1812–1870], born in Portsmouth, England, was the most popular English-language novelist of his time. He created a fictional world that reflected the social and technological changes during the Victorian era. Among his most famous works are David Copperfield, Oliver Twist, Great Expectations, A Tale of Two Cities, A Christmas Carol, and The Pickwick Papers.
The Puffin Book Of Christmas Stories
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Author : Wendy Cooling
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2018-08-09
The Puffin Book Of Christmas Stories written by Wendy Cooling and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-08-09 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
The Puffin Book of Christmas Stories is essential Christmas-time reading including classics from all eras. A new collection of Christmas stories, from traditional to real life, humour and most importantly, plenty of the magic of Christmas. Writers range from Charles Dickens to Gillian Cross and Malorie Blackman. Wendy Cooling, a former teacher and Head of the Children's Book Foundation (now Book Trust), works as a freelance book consultant, reviewer and editor. She recently put together the successful millennium collection, CENTURIES OF STORIES. Wendy livesin Hertfordshire.
A Merry Christmas
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Author : Louisa May Alcott
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2014-10-08
A Merry Christmas written by Louisa May Alcott and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-08 with Fiction categories.
One of five beloved Christmas classics A Merry Christmas collects the treasured holiday tales of Louisa May Alcott, from the dearly familiar Yuletide benevolence of Marmee and her “little women” to the timeless “What Love Can Do,” wherein the residents of a boarding house come together to make a lovely Christmas for two poor girls. Wildly popular at the time of their publication—readers deluged Alcott with letters demanding sequels—and drawing on Alcott’s family and experiences in the abolitionist and women’s suffrage movements, these stories have the authentic texture and detail of Christmas in nineteenth-century America, while their emphasis on generosity and charity make them timeless embodiments of the Christmas spirit. Penguin Christmas Classics Give the gift of literature this Christmas. Penguin Christmas Classics honor the power of literature to keep on giving through the ages. The five volumes in the series are not only our most beloved Christmas tales, they also have given us much of what we love about the holiday itself. A Christmas Carol revived in Victorian England such Christmas hallmarks as the Christmas tree, holiday cards, and caroling. The Yuletide yarns of Anthony Trollope popularized throughout the British Empire and around the world the trappings of Christmas in London. The holiday tales of Louisa May Alcott shaped the ideal of an American Christmas. The Night Before Christmas brought forth some of our earliest Christmas traditions as passed down through folk tales. And The Nutcracker inspired the most famous ballet in history, one seen by millions in the twilight of every year. Collect all five Penguin Christmas Classics: A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens Christmas at Thompson Hall: And Other Christmas Stories by Anthony Trollope A Merry Christmas: And Other Christmas Stories by Louisa May Alcott The Night Before Christmas by Nikolai Gogol The Nutcracker by E. T. A. Hoffmann
The Penguin Book Of Modern British Short Stories
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Author : Malcolm Bradbury
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 1988-02-25
The Penguin Book Of Modern British Short Stories written by Malcolm Bradbury and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988-02-25 with Fiction categories.
This anthology is in many was a ‘best of the best’, containing gems from thirty-four of Britain's outstanding contemporary writers. It is a book to dip into, to read from cover to cover, to lend to friends and read again. It includes stories of love and crime, stories touched with comedy and the supernatural, stories set in London, Los Angeles, Bucharest and Tokyo. Above all, as you will discover, it satisfies Samuel Butler's anarchic pleasure principle: 'I should like to like Schumann's music better than I do; I daresay I could make myself like it better if I tried; but I do not like having to try to make myself like things; I like things that make me like them at once and no trying at all ...'
The Penguin Book Of Christmas Stories
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Author : Alberto Manguel
language : en
Publisher: Penguin Canada
Release Date : 2007-10-16
The Penguin Book Of Christmas Stories written by Alberto Manguel and has been published by Penguin Canada this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-10-16 with Fiction categories.
Internationally acclaimed anthologist Alberto Manguel offers an immensely enjoyable collection of 22 brilliant stories from across the globe, written under the merry canopy of Christmas. The Penguin Book of Christmas Stories features tales by the best master storytellers, including Alice Munro, John Cheever, Richard Ford, Anne Beattie, William Trevor, Muriel Spark, Paul Auster, Mavis Gallant, Alistair MacLeod, and Vladimir Nabokov.
The Penguin Book Of Italian Short Stories
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Author : Jhumpa Lahiri
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2019-03-07
The Penguin Book Of Italian Short Stories written by Jhumpa Lahiri and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-03-07 with Fiction categories.
'Rich. . . eclectic. . . a feast' Telegraph This landmark collection brings together forty writers that reflect over a hundred years of Italy's vibrant and diverse short story tradition, from the birth of the modern nation to the end of the twentieth century. Poets, journalists, visual artists, musicians, editors, critics, teachers, scientists, politicians, translators: the writers that inhabit these pages represent a dynamic cross section of Italian society, their powerful voices resonating through regional landscapes, private passions and dramatic political events. This wide-ranging selection curated by Jhumpa Lahiri includes well known authors such as Italo Calvino, Elsa Morante and Luigi Pirandello alongside many captivating new discoveries. More than a third of the stories featured in this volume have been translated into English for the first time, several of them by Lahiri herself.
The Penguin Book Of Japanese Short Stories
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Author : Jay Rubin
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2018-06-28
The Penguin Book Of Japanese Short Stories written by Jay Rubin and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-06-28 with Fiction categories.
This fantastically varied and exciting collection celebrates the great Japanese short story, from its modern origins in the nineteenth century to the remarkable works being written today. Short story writers already well-known to English-language readers are all included here - Tanizaki, Akutagawa, Murakami, Mishima, Kawabata - but also many surprising new finds. From Yuko Tsushima's 'Flames' to Yuten Sawanishi's 'Filling Up with Sugar', from Shin'ichi Hoshi's 'Shoulder-Top Secretary' to Banana Yoshimoto's 'Bee Honey', The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories is filled with fear, charm, beauty and comedy. Curated by Jay Rubin, who has himself freshly translated several of the stories, and introduced by Haruki Murakami, this book will be a revelation to its readers.
A Literary Christmas
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Author : British Library
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018-09
A Literary Christmas written by British Library and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-09 with Christmas categories.
This seasonal compendium collects together poems, short stories, and prose extracts by some of the greatest poets and writers in the English language. Like Charles Dickens's ghosts of Christmas Past and Present, they are representative of times old and new--from John Donne's Elizabethan hymn over the baby Jesus to Benjamin Zephaniah's "Talking Turkeys," from Thomas Tusser counting the cost of a Tudor feast to P. G. Wodehouse's wry story about Christmas on a diet. Enjoy a Christmas Day as described by Samuel Pepys, Anthony Trollope, George Eliot, or Nancy Mitford. Venture out into the snow in the company of Jane Austen, Henry James, and Dickens's Mr. Pickwick. Entertain the children with the seasonal tales of Dylan Thomas, Kenneth Grahame, and Oscar Wilde.