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A Very German Christmas: The Greatest Austrian, Swiss and German Holiday Stories of All Time
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A Very German Christmas: The Greatest Austrian, Swiss and German Holiday Stories of All Time

Various,Heinrich Heine,Rainer Maria Rilke,Hermann Hesse,Erich Kastner
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The fifth volume in our popular Very Christmas series, this collection brings together traditional and contemporary holiday stories from Austria, Switzerland and Germany. You’ll find classic works by the Brothers Grimm, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Heinrich Heine, Thomas Mann, Rainer Maria Rilke, Hermann Hesse, Joseph Roth and Arthur Schnitzler, as well as more recent tales by writers like Heinrich Boell, Peter Stamm and Martin Suter. Eine froehliche Weihnachten-A Merry Christmas-made all the more festive with these literary treats redolent of candle-lit trees, St. Nikolaus, gingerbread, the Christkindl, roast goose and red cabbage, Gugelhopf and stollen cakes, accompanied by plenty of schnapps.

Joseph Roth’s story Christmas in Cochinchina, published in English for the first time in this collection, appears in the December 2020 issue of Harper’s Magazine

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Format
Hardback
Publisher
New Vessel Press
Country
United States
Date
23 November 2020
Pages
140
ISBN
9781939931887

The fifth volume in our popular Very Christmas series, this collection brings together traditional and contemporary holiday stories from Austria, Switzerland and Germany. You’ll find classic works by the Brothers Grimm, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Heinrich Heine, Thomas Mann, Rainer Maria Rilke, Hermann Hesse, Joseph Roth and Arthur Schnitzler, as well as more recent tales by writers like Heinrich Boell, Peter Stamm and Martin Suter. Eine froehliche Weihnachten-A Merry Christmas-made all the more festive with these literary treats redolent of candle-lit trees, St. Nikolaus, gingerbread, the Christkindl, roast goose and red cabbage, Gugelhopf and stollen cakes, accompanied by plenty of schnapps.

Joseph Roth’s story Christmas in Cochinchina, published in English for the first time in this collection, appears in the December 2020 issue of Harper’s Magazine

.

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Format
Hardback
Publisher
New Vessel Press
Country
United States
Date
23 November 2020
Pages
140
ISBN
9781939931887

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