Christmas Stories

Description:

The story of the goblins who stole a sexton (from The Pickwick papers) / Charles Dickens -- The night before Christmas / Nikolai Gogol -- [Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle ](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL1518317W) / Arthur Conan Doyle -- Christmas at Thompson Hall / Anthony Trollope -- Where love is, God is / Leo Tolstoy -- Vanka / Anton Chekhov -- The burglar's Christmas / Willa Cather -- A chapparal Christmas gift / O. Henry -- Reginald's Christmas revel / Saki (H.H. Munro) -- Christmas / Vladimir Nabokov -- Dancing Dan's Christmas / Damon Runyon -- Bella Fleace gave a party / Evelyn Waugh -- Green holly / Elizabeth Bowen -- Christmas is a sad season for the poor / John Cheever -- A Christmas memory / Truman Capote -- The carol sing / John Updike -- Christmas fugue / Muriel Spark -- The loudest voice / Grace Paley -- The turkey season / Alice Munro -- Créche / Richard Ford.

subjects: short stories,  carbuncles,  Christmas dinners,  commissionaires,  Fiction,  Private investigators,  Christmas stories,  American Christmas stories,  English Christmas stories,  Short Story,  Fiction, christian, short stories

People: Sherlock Holmes,  John H. Watson,  Baker Street Irregulars,  Countess of Morcar,  John Horner,  Peterson,  Henry Baker,  Breckinridge,  Mrs Oakshott,  Catherine Cusack,  James Ryder,  Mrs. Oakshott

Places: England,  London,  221B Baker Street,  Alpha Inn,  British Museum,  Covent Garden,  Brixton