A Very German Christmas
The Greatest Austrian, Swiss and German Holiday Stories of All Time
Author: Heinrich Heine, Rainer Maria Rilke and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Series: Very Christmas
A continuation of the very popular Very Christmas series conveying a festive spirit from the place where many Christmas traditions were invented. A delightful and unpredictable collection redolent of candle-lit trees, St. Nikolaus, gingerbread, the Christkindl, roast goose and red cabbage, Gugelhopfand stollen cakes, accompanied by plenty of schnapps.
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A continuation of the very popular Very Christmas series conveying a festive spirit from the place where many Christmas traditions were invented. A delightful and unpredictable collection redolent of candle-lit trees, St. Nikolaus, gingerbread, the Christkindl, roast goose and red cabbage, Gugelhopfand stollen cakes, accompanied by plenty of schnapps.
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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 Bll, Peter Stamm, and Martin Suter.Eine frhliche 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, Gugelhopfand stollen cakes, accompanied by plenty of schnapps.
Joseph Roth's story "Christmas in Cochinchina," published in English for the first time in this collection, appeared in the December 2020 issue of Harper's Magazine.
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“"Excellent ... wonderfully eclectic, both powerful and strange." -- The Drunken Odyssey --Excerpted in Harper's Magazine --”
"Excellent ... wonderfully eclectic, both powerful and strange."--The Drunken Odyssey
--Excerpted in Harper's Magazine--
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 B
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