Christmas Novellas by Foreign Writers

This book includes Christmas novellas by foreign writers, and some names and translations may come as a discovery for readers. All works fit quite well into the framework of Christmas storytelling as defined by Nikolai Leskov: '...so that it is timed to the events of Christmas Eve — from Christmas to Epiphany, so that it is somewhat fantastic, has some kind of moral, at least resembling a refutation of a harmful prejudice, and finally, so that it necessarily ends happily.'