This collection brings together traditional and contemporary holiday stories from Austria, Switzerland, and Germany. It includes 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 Böll, Peter Stamm, and Martin Suter. Eine fröhliche Weihnachten—A Merry Christmas—made all the more festive with these literary treats. It also contains Joseph Roth’s story “Christmas in Cochinchina,” published in English for the first time in this collection.

144 pages; 7 x 10 inches; hardcover