The fir tree / Hans Christian Andersen --
The cat on the Dovrefjell / Peter Christen Asbjørnson and Jørgen Moe --
A Christmas party and a wedding / Fyodor Dostoyevsky --
St Anthony and his pig / Paul Arène --
Midnight mass / Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis --
Reginald's Christmas revel / Saki --
The legend of the Christmas Rose / Selma Lagerlöf --
A chaparral Christmas gift / O. Henry --
Noël / Irène Némirovsky --
Dancing Dan's Christmas / Damon Runyon --
The necklace of pearls / Dorothy L. Sayers --
One Christmas eve / Langston Hughes --
The Christmas turkey / Mário de Andrade --
Green holly / Elizabeth Bowen --
Christmas morning / Frank O'Connor --
A child's Christmas in Wales / Dylan Thomas --
The gift / Ray Bradbury --
A visit to the bank / Shirley Jackson --
The prisoners / Bienvenido Santos --
The leaf-sweeper / Muriel Spark --
A Christmas memory / Truman Capote --
The loan / Wolfdietrich Schnurre --
Christmas eve / Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen --
The loudest voice / Grace Paley --
A cold Christmas walk in the country / Laurie Lee --
Santa's children / Italo Calvino --
Christmas / Tove Jansson --
Just because of Xmas / Cyprian Ekwensi --
Noël, Texas, 1956 / Lucia Berlin --
The ghost ships / Angela Carter.