A classic selection of some of the greatest festive stories ever written. At once magical, moving and unexpected here are outstanding Christmas tales from writers including Washington Irving, Charles Dickens, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Hans Christian Andersen, Elizabeth Gaskell, Louisa May Alcott, Leo Tolstoy, Anthony Trollope, Oscar Wilde, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Anton Chekhov and James Joyce. Featuring santas, ghosts, unexpected guests, magi, misers and miracles, here is Christmas as imagined by some of the greatest writers of all time.
