Description: CONDITION: NEW 1993 Chronicle Books hardcover (pictorial boards) & dust jacket, first edition, first printing. Chapter decorations only. CONTENT: This is a selection of stories from wildly different authors and subject matter, blended to provide a great seasonal read. James Thurber's curmudgeonly satire on the American mania for sending Christmas cards, John Cheever's bittersweet tale of a lonely New York elevator operator, Anne Sexton's deeply ambivalent lyric poem to her mother and Alex Haley's dramatic story of a slave rebellion on Christmas Eve are among the offerings in this eclectic Christmas sampler. Along with chestnuts like Dickens's "A Christmas Tree" and Laura Ingalls Wilder's "A Merry Christmas," this beautifully designed volume includes more unconventional fare, such as Strindberg's brooding symbolist playlet "The Respite," Dostoevsky's account of drunken holiday cheer in a Siberian labor camp and Clarence Major's tangy story, "Ten Pecan Pies," in which a wheelchair-bound old man's stored-up resentment of his wife nearly derails Christmas for their grandchildren. Also included are an excerpt from Frank Capra's screenplay for It's a Wonderful Life , Peter Matthiessen's exquisite log of a shipboard Christmas in the tropics. W.H. Auden's "The Meditation of Simeon" and Andrei Codrescu's warm reminiscence of Yuletide in communist Romania where the holiday was celebrated despite an official ban. Shipping via USPS media mail within 2 days of order. All books clean. Questions welcome & answered.
Price: 13.89 USD
Location: Austin, Texas
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Restocking Fee: No
Return shipping will be paid by: Buyer
All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 30 Days
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Features: Dust Jacket, Pictorial Boards, Chapter Decorations
California Prop 65 Warning: NONE
Format: Hardcover
Personalize: No
Item Width: 1 in
Number of Pages: 224 Pages
Item Length: 1 in
Item Height: 1 in
Illustrator: Chapter Decorations only
Topic: Holidays, Anthologies (Multiple Authors), Christmas Tales
Book Series: Christmas Stories
Vintage: Yes
Era: Timeless
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Ex Libris: No
Edition: First Edition
Language: English
Publication Year: 1993
Item Weight: 16 Oz
Book Title: Christmas Stories
Intended Audience: Ages 9-12, Young Adults, Adults
Author: John Miller, John Miller, Editor
Original Language: English
Narrative Type: Fiction
Literary Movement: Holidays
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Inscribed: No
Signed: No
Genre: Fiction, Holiday Tales, Christmas Tales
Personalized: No
Type: Anthology
