The Penguin Book of Christmas Stories
The Penguin Book of Christmas Stories

Author: Jessica Harrison

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 2019-10-03

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 0241396719

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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 Christmas Penguin
The Christmas Penguin

Author: Mary Packard

Publisher: Cartwheel Books

Published: 2002-10-01

Total Pages: 32

ISBN-13: 9780439321020

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Rollie the penguin is an expert swimmer, but what he really wants to do is fly, as he tells Santa Claus, so one Christmas Eve Santa invites him along for the ride.

The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories
The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories

Author: Jay Rubin

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 2018-06-28

Total Pages: 472

ISBN-13: 014139563X

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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 Merry Christmas
A Merry Christmas

Author: Louisa May Alcott

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2014-10-08

Total Pages: 161

ISBN-13: 069817092X

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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 Victorian Verse
The Penguin Book of Victorian Verse

Author:

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 1998-10-19

Total Pages: 916

ISBN-13: 0141958677

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Daniel Karlin has selected poetry written and published during the reign of Queen Victoria, (1837-1901). Giving pride of place to Tennyson, Robert Browning, and Christina Rossetti, the volume offers generous selections from other major poets such asArnold, Emily Bronte, Hardy and Hopkins, and makes room for several poem-sequences in their entirety. It is wonderful, too, in its discovery and inclusion of eccentric, dissenting, un-Victorian voices, poets who squarely refuse to 'represent' their period. It also includes the work of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, George Meredith, James Thomson and Augusta Webster.

Christmas Stories
Christmas Stories

Author: Diana Secker Tesdell

Publisher: Everyman's Library

Published: 2007-10-30

Total Pages: 408

ISBN-13:

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This collection is a treasury of short fiction by great writers of the past two centuries. 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 anthology.

Nickelodeon 5-Minute Christmas Stories (Nickelodeon)
Nickelodeon 5-Minute Christmas Stories (Nickelodeon)

Author: Random House

Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers

Published: 2017-09-05

Total Pages: 161

ISBN-13: 1524763985

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A hardcover collection of Christmas stories starring Nickelodeon's best-loved characters! Fans ages 3-7 will love these holiday tales featuring PAW Patrol, Dora the Explorer, Blaze and the Monster Machines, Shimmer and Shine, Team Umizoomi, and The Bubble Guppies. Each story can be read in five minutes or less, so it's perfect for bedtime--or anytime!

What's a Christmas?
What's a Christmas?

Author: Hayley Down

Publisher:

Published: 2015

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9781783938988

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One Christmas Eve, four little penguins make a surprising discovery in the snow: an elf has fallen out of Santa's sleigh! But what's even more surprising is that the penguins have never heard of elves of sleighs or Santas -- and they have never EVER heard of Christmas!

Tacky's Christmas
Tacky's Christmas

Author: Helen Lester

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 2010-09-27

Total Pages: 37

ISBN-13: 0547504950

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Deck the iceberg wrap a gifty Fa la la la la la la la la... Tacky, Goodly, Lovely, Angel, Neatly, and Perfect are celebrating the holiday with good cheer, singing, and lots of presents. Tacky’s present is a little bit different, and not exactly what his friends had in mind, but when the Christmas merrymaking is interrupted by hunters in search of pretty penguins, it's Tacky's gift that helps to save the day…. A bonus CD of original carols includes: Deck the Iceberg, Sandy Clawz is Coming to Town, The Six Days of Christmas, I’m Dreaming of a Green Christmas, and Oh Tackytree!