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The Penguin Book of Christmas Stories

An immensely enjoyable collection of twenty-two brilliant stories from across the globe, by writers as diverse as John Cheever, Anne Beattie, Siegfried Lenz, Alice Munro, Theodore Odrach and Muriel Spark, all written under the merry canopy of Christmas.

First Edition

Toronto, Viking Canada, 2005
Softcover, 335 p.

Selection, introduction, author notes
by Alberto Manguel

9780670064496

  • Introduction  
  • PAUL AUSTER: Auggie Wren’s Christmas Story
  • ANN BEATTIE: Horatio’s  Trick
  • JOHN CHEEVER: Christmas ls a Sad Season for the Poor
  • RICHARD FORD: Crèche
  • MAVIS GALLANT: The Sunday after Christmas
  • JANE GARDAM: The Zoo at Christmas
  • PETER GOLDSWORTHY: Run Silent, Run Deep
  • GRAHAM GREENE: A Visit to Morin
  • BESSIE HEAD: The Coming of the Christ-Child
  • JUAN JOSÉ HERNÁNDEZ: For Christmas
  • SIEGFRIED LENZ: A Risk for Father Christmas
  • ALISTAIR MACLEOD: Winter Dog
  • ALICE MUNRO: The Turkey-Season
  • VLADIMIR NABOKOV: Christmas
  • THEODORE ODRACH: The Night Before Christmas
  • GRACE PALEY: The Loudest Voice
  • SERGIO RAMÍREZ: Saint Nikolaus
  • ITOH SEIKOH: God Is Nowhere, God Is Now Here
  • MURIEL SPARK: The Leaf-Sweeper
  • MICHEL TOURNIER: Mother Christmas
  • WILLIAM TREVOR: Another Christmas
  • JEANETTE WINTERSON: O’Brien’s First Christmas
  • The Authors

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