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Book Synopsis'He drew a long sigh of rich content. The old life, with all its bitterness and useless antagonism and flimsy sophistries, its brief delights that were always tinged with fear and distrust and unfaith, that whole miserable, futile, swindled world of Bohemia seemed immeasurably distant and far away, like a dream that is over and done.' First published in 1896, The Burglar’s Christmas is a short story by the great American writer Willa Cather. Set in Chicago on a cold Christmas Eve, the down-and-out Crawford learns the value of forgiveness. (Part of Renard’s Christmas Card Classics series, 25% of the RRP of each book sold goes to Three Peas, a small refugee charity. This year, instead of a Christmas card, why not send a book?)
Trade Review'The most sensuous of writers, Willa Cather builds her imagined world almost as solidly as our five senses build the universe around us.' (Rebecca West) 'Her voice, laconical and richly sensuous, sings out with a note of unequivocal love for the people she is setting down on the page.' (Marina Warner)
