A Very German Christmas: The Greatest Austrian, Swiss and German Holiday Stories of All Time
by New Vessel Press (Publisher and Translations)
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This collection of new and classic Christmas literature includes stories by Herman Hesse, Joseph Roth, The Brothers Grimm, and many others. This collection brings together traditional and contemporary holiday stories from Austria, Switzerland, and Germany. You'll find classic works by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Heinrich Heine, Rainer Maria Rilke, Thomas Mann and Arthur Schnitzler, as well as more recent tales by writers like Heinrich Böll, Peter Stamm and Martin Suter. It also includes the show more first published English translation of Joseph Roth's story "Christmas in Cochinchina." Enjoy Eine fröhliche Weihnachten, A Merry Christmas, made all the more festive with these literary treats redolent of candle-lit trees, St. Nikolaus, gingerbread, Gugelhopf and stollen cakes, all accompanied by plenty of schnapps. show lessTags
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Great collection of holiday and Yule themed stories unfamiliar to me as an American. Still, a nice selection of positive stories and optimism much needed of late by this reader.
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- 833.0108334 — Literature & rhetoric German & related literatures German fiction Fiction of specific media, scope, kinds {only by more than one author} Short stories Collections
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- PT1340 .C5 — Language and Literature German, Dutch and Scandinavian literatures German literature Collections Prose
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