Pocket magic

Under the tree
Christmas tales by Pirandello, Andersen, Maupassant …
Folio, 142 p., € 2
Christmas stories to shiver by the fireside
Three short stories from Erckmann-Chatrian, Gaston Leroux and Maurice Leblanc
Ed. de l’Aube, coll. Classic “Mikrós”, 80 p., € 10
Two pocket collections accompany the Christmas season: that of reading as well as ideas for last minute presents for small budgets. The € 2 Folio offer this year a collection for “Wake up in the company of Alphonse Daudet and Joseph Kessel, admire Jean Giono’s crib, attend the distribution of gifts with Fédor Dostoïevski… “ While Editions de l’Aube, which has long published Christmas tales (still available: The Song of Dickens, but also its Haunted house, which the British writer wrote with friends), bring together this winter, around the same theme, three short stories by Erckmann-Chatrian, Gaston Leroux and Maurice Leblanc.
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