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From: Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
Date: 20071123
Author:Dennis Lythgoe Deseret Morning News

'Christmas Stories'

Edited by Diana Secker Tesdell

Borzoi Knopf, $15

This is "a treasury of short fiction" written by great writers from the past two centuries.

Authors include Charles Dickens, Leo Tolstoy, Arthur Conan Doyle, Anthony Trollope, Anton Chekhov, Willa Cather, O. Henry, Vladimir Nabokov, Damon Runyon, Evelyn Waugh, Elizabeth Bowen, John Cheever, Truman Capote, John Updike, Alice Munroe, Muriel Spark, Grace Paley and Richard Ford.

There is great variety here, just as Christmas is celebrated with great variety, depending on the time and place. There are goblins, a love-struck ghost, ...

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