<p><i>Grandma's heirloom ornaments. The family carol singalong. Aunt Millie's fruitcake.</i> We all have our special holiday traditions we practice year in and year out. This book not only embraces these old standbys, but also explores unique rituals celebrated the world over. This heartwarming coll
The Greatest Christmas Stories of All Time: Timeless Classics That Celebrate the Season
โ Scribed by Montgomery, Lucy Maud & Potter, Beatrix & Saki (H.H. Munro) & Henry, O. & Lagerlรถf, Selma & Cather, Willa & Grimm, The Brothers & Dyke, Henry Van & Hoffmann, E.T.A. & Twain, Mark & Tolstoy, Leo & Andersen, Hans Christian & Wilde, Oscar & Dickens, Charles & Baum, L. Frank & Alcott, Louisa May & Dostoyevsky, Fyodor & Chekhov, Anton
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โฆ Synopsis
The Greatest Christmas Stories of All Time is a treasury of short fiction by great writers of the past two centuries โ from Dickens, Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy to Willa Cather, Damon Runyon and Beatrix Potter. 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 wonderfully engaging anthology.
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by Lucy Maud Montgomery, Beatrix Potter, Saki (H.H. Munro), O. Henry, Selma Lagerlรถf, Willa Cather, The Brothers Grimm, Henry Van Dyke, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Mark Twain, Leo Tolstoy, Hans Christian Andersen, Oscar Wilde, Charles Dickens, L. Frank Baum, Louisa May Alcott, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Anton Chekhov
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Fiction & Literature
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