Contents“The Fir Tree” by Hans Christian Andersen
“The Cat on the Dovrefjell” by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe
“A Christmas Party and a Wedding” by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
“St. Anthony and His Pig” by Paul Arène
“Boys” by Anton Chekhov
“Midnight Mass” by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
“Reginald’s Christmas Revel” by Saki
“The Legend of the Christmas Rose” by Selma Lagerlöf
“A Chaparral Christmas Gift” by O. Henry
“Noël” by Irène Némirovsky
“Dancing Dan’s Christmas” by Damon Runyon
“The Necklace of Pearls” by Dorothy L. Sayers
“One Christmas Eve” by Langston Hughes
“The Christmas Turkey” by Mário de Andrade
“Green Holly” by Elizabeth Bowen
“Christmas Morning” by Frank O’Connor
“A Child’s Christmas in Wales” by Dylan Thomas
“The Little Restaurant near Place des Ternes” by Georges Simenon
“The Gift” by Ray Bradbury
“A Visit to the Bank” by Shirley Jackson
“The Prisoners” by Bienvenido Santos
“The Leaf-Sweeper” by Muriel Spark
“A Christmas Memory” by Truman Capote
“The Loan” by Wolfdietrich Schnurre
“Christmas Eve” by Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen
“The Loudest Voice” by Grace Paley
“A Cold Christmas Walk in the Country” by Laurie Lee
“Santa’s Children” by Italo Calvino
“Christmas” by Tove Jansson
“Just Because of Xmas” by Cyprian Ekwensi
“Noël. Texas. 1956” by Lucia Berlin
“The Ghost Ships” by Angela Carter
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