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- 2014
- year of publication
- 96
- pages
- English (United Kingdom)
- language
- Hardcover
- cover
- Publisher
- penguin_classics
- ISBN-13
- 978-01-4312-248-7
- EAN
- 9780143122487
- Publication date
- 2014-11-06
- Book
- The Night Before Christmas · 1 edition
The publisher on this edition
Written in 1831, this dark tale relates the adventures of Vakula, the blacksmith, in his fight against the devil, who has stolen the moon above the village of Dikanka and is wreaking havoc on its inhabitants, all to win the love of the most beautiful girl in town, Oksana. The basis for many movie and opera adaptations, and still a story traditionally read aloud to children on Christmas Eve in Ukraine and Russia, The Night Before Christmas is the best holiday tale by the man whom Vladimir Nabokov called 'the greatest writer Russia has yet produced'.