A Christmas Carol: And Two Other Christmas Books (Collector's Library) - Hardcover

Dickens, Charles

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1904633692 ISBN 13: 9781904633693

Publisher: Macmillan Collector's Library, 2004

Synopsis

A Christmas Carol was an overnight success when first published in 1843, and was followed by two further Christmas books, The Chimes and The Cricket on the Hearth, also included in this volume. But A Christmas Carol's Ebenezer Scooge is one of Dickens's most unforgettable characters, a miserable skinflint without equal. Even he, however, can be redeemed by the spirits of Christmas Past, Present and Future.

Illustrated by John Leech and others, with an Afterword by Anna South.

About this title

About the Author:

Charles Dickens was born in 1812 near Portsmouth, where his father worked as a clerk. Living in London in 1824, Dickens was sent by his family to work in a blacking-warehouse, and his father was arrested and imprisoned for debt. Fortunes improved and Dickens returned to school, eventually becoming a parliamentary reporter. His first piece of fiction was published by a magazine in December 1832, and by 1836 he had begun his first novel, The Pickwick Papers. He focused his career on writing, completing fourteen highly successful novels, as well as penning journalism, shorter fiction and travel books. He died in 1870.

Synopsis:

Tells the heartwarming story of the mean employer Scrooge who is visited by four ghosts who tell him that if he doesn't change his ways he will die a miserable man.

About this edition

• Publisher: Macmillan Collector's Library
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1904633692
• ISBN 13: 9781904633693
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 364