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A Book for Christmas

A Book for Christmas

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An enchanting selection of Christmas tales by the Nobel Prize-winning Swedish national treasure–now available in English for the first time

A Penguin Classics Hardcover

A little girl receives a gift to treasure; the creatures of the forest gather to celebrate the New Year; an evil noblewoman schemes against her beautiful niece; a cantankerous gravedigger dines with an unexpected companion on Christmas Eve…In this enchanting selection of winter stories, now available in English for the first time, the beloved writer Selma Lagerlöf weaves together magic and miracles, Swedish folklore and timeless fables, darkness and light, heartfelt joy and festive wonder.
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A Penguin Classics Hardcover Series

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A Book for Christmas
All Quiet on the Western Front
Lord of the Flies
The Lives of the Caesars
Metamorphoses
The Penguin Book of Christmas Stories
The Penguin Book of Italian Short Stories
The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories
The Prophet
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Selma Lagerlof
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About the Author

Sarah Death
SARAH DEATH is a translator, literary scholar, and editor of the U.K.-based journal Swedish Book Review. Her translations from the Swedish include Ellen Mattson’s Snow, for which she won the Bernard Shaw Translation Prize. She lives and works in Kent, England. More by Sarah Death
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Peter Graves
SARAH DEATH is a translator, literary scholar, and editor of the U.K.-based journal Swedish Book Review. Her translations from the Swedish include Ellen Mattson’s Snow, for which she won the Bernard Shaw Translation Prize. She lives and works in Kent, England. More by Peter Graves
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Linda Schenck
Linda Schenck is a literary translator living in Göteborg, Sweden. She has translated the works of various Swedish authors including Kerstin Ekman, Selma Lagerlöf, and Annika Thor. More by Linda Schenck
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