Christmas Stories [Audiobook] download free by Diana Secker Tesdell
- Listen audiobook: Christmas Stories
- Author: Diana Secker Tesdell
- Release date: 2007/2/15
- Publisher: EVERYMAN
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Poetry and Drama
- ISBN: 9781841596006
- Rating: 9.72 of 10
- Votes: 164
- Review by: Ashlynn Giron
- Review rating: 8.38 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/11/30
- Duration: 4H56M31S in 256 kbps (80 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-08-10
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: WMA, MPEG4, WAV, OPUS, FLAC, MP3 (compression ZIP, TAR.7Z, RAR, XZ)
- Total pages original book: 400
- Includes a PDF summary of 34 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 27M2S (6.8 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: 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 collection. Goblins frolic in the graveyard of an early Dickens tale; a love-struck ghost disrupts a country estate in Elizabeth Bowen's 'Green Holly'; devils, witches, Cossacks and peasants cavort in Gogol's 'The Night Before Christmas'. The plight of the less fortunate haunts Chekhov's 'Vanka' and Willa Cather's 'The Burglar's Christmas', but takes a boisterously comic turn in Damon Runyon's 'Dancing Dan's Christmas' and John Cheever's 'Christmas is a Sad Season for the Poor'. From Nabokov's intensely moving story of a father's grief in 'Christmas' to Truman Capote's hilarious yet heartbreaking 'A Christmas Memory', from Grace Paley's Jewish girl in the Christmas pageant in 'The Loudest Voice' to the dysfunctional family ski holiday in Richard Ford's 'Creche' - each of the stories is imbued with Christmas spirit of one kind or another, and all are richly and indelibly entertaining.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Art Books, Anthologies (non-poetry), Short Story Books
- Download servers: Monova, Torrent, FileServe, Hotfile, Google Drive, Cozy. Compressed in ZIP, TAR.7Z, RAR, XZ
- Format: Hardback
- Approximate value: 16.66 USD
- Dimensions: 125x190x28mm
- Weight: 421g
- Printed by: EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY
- Published in: London, United Kingdom
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