Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol: A Book-to-Table Classic (Puffin Plated) - Hardcover

Dickens, Charles

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0451479920 ISBN 13: 9780451479921

Publisher: Puffin Books, 2018

Synopsis

Have your book and eat it, too, with this clever collection of classics featuring delicious recipes from celebrity chefs. In this edition of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, plan your perfect Christmas feast with a carefully curated menu of [celebrity chef's] favourite holiday dishes, from succulent baked ham to smashed root vegetables. And top it all off with fruitcake cookies and pecan pie. Celebrate the holiday with a good meal and a good book! A Christmas Carol Ebenezer Scrooge is a mean, miserable, bitter old man with no friends. One cold Christmas Eve, three ghosts take him on a scary journey to show him the error of his nasty ways. By visiting his past, present, and future, Scrooge learns to love Christmas and the people all around him.

About this title

About the Author:

Charles Dickens was born on February 7, 1812, in Landport, Portsea, England. He died in Kent on June 9, 1870. The second of eight children of a family continually plagued by debt, the young Dickens came to know not only hunger and privation, but also the horror of the infamous debtors' prison and the evils of child labor. A turn of fortune in the shape of a legacy brought release from the nightmare of prison and "slave" factories and afforded Dickens the opportunity of two years' formal schooling at Wellington House Academy. He worked as an attorney's clerk and newspaper reporter until his Sketches by Boz (1836) and The Pickwick Papers (1837) brought him the amazing and instant success that was to be his for the remainder of his life. In later years, the pressure of serial writing, editorial duties, lectures, and social commitments led to his separation from Catherine Hogarth after twenty-three years of marriage. It also hastened his death at the age of fifty-eight, when he was characteristically engaged in a multitude of work.

About this edition

• Publisher: Puffin Books
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 0451479920
• ISBN 13: 9780451479921
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 176