A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings: Charles Dickens (Penguin Clothbound Classics) - Hardcover

Dickens, Charles

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0141195851 ISBN 13: 9780141195858

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 2010

Synopsis

Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design.

After reading Christmas Carol, the notoriously reculsive Thomas Carlyle was "seized with a perfect convulsion of hospitality" and threw not one but two Christmas dinner parties. The impact of the story may not always have been so dramatic but, along with Dickens other Christmas writings, it has had a lasting and significant influence upon our ideas about the Christmas spirit, and about the season as a time for celebration, charity, and memory.

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[Coralie Bickford-Smith's] recent work for Penguin Classics is...nothing short of glorious (Anna Cole Co.)

From the Publisher:

The Broadview Editions series is an effort to represent the ever-changing canon of literature in English by bringing together texts long regarded as classics with valuable, lesser-known literature. Newly type-set and produced on high-quality paper in trade paperback format, the Broadview Editions series is a delight to handle as well as to read.

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About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0141195851
• ISBN 13: 9780141195858
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 336