A "Christmas Carol" and Other Christmas Books (Gift Edition) - Hardcover

Dickens, Charles

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0199204748 ISBN 13: 9780199204748

Publisher: OUP Oxford, 2006

Synopsis

Dickens's A Christmas Carol has gripped the public imagination since it was first published in 1843, and it is now as much a part of Christmas as mistletoe or plum pudding. It is a ghost story set at Christmastime in which a bad-tempered skinflint learns the error of his ways. Ebenezer Scrooge hates Christmas and all it stands for, but a ghostly visitor foretells three apparitions who will thaw Scrooge's frozen heart.

This edition includes all the original illustrations for A Christmas Carol and reprints the story alongside Dickens's four other Christmas Books: The Chimes, The Cricket on the Hearth, The Battle of Life, and The Haunted Man.. All five stories show Dickens at his unpredictable best, jumbling together comedy and melodrama, genial romance and urgent social satire, in pursuit of his aim 'to awaken some loving and forbearing thoughts, never out of season in a Christian land'.

About this title

Review:

"A Christmas Carol] seems to be a national benefit, and to every man or woman who reads it a personal kindness." --William Makepeace Thackeray

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.

Each volume includes a full introduction, chronology, bibliography, and explanatory notes along with a variety of documents from the period, giving readers a rich sense of the world from which the work emerged.

About this edition

• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0199204748
• ISBN 13: 9780199204748
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 496
• Editor: Douglas-Fairhurst Robert