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OverviewDickens'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'. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Charles Dickens , Robert Douglas-FairhurstPublisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Dimensions: Width: 13.70cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 20.20cm Weight: 0.608kg ISBN: 9780199204748ISBN 10: 0199204748 Pages: 496 Publication Date: 14 September 2006 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Out of Print Availability: In Print  Limited stock is available. It will be ordered for you and shipped pending supplier's limited stock. Table of ContentsA Christmas Carol ; The Chimes ; The Cricket on the Hearth ; The Battle of Life ; The Haunted ManReviewsA Christmas Carol] seems to be a national benefit, and to every man or woman who reads it a personal kindness. <br>--William Makepeace Thackeray A Christmas Carol] seems to be a national benefit, and to every man or woman who reads it a personal kindness. --William Makepeace Thackeray Author InformationRobert Douglas-Fairhurst is Fellow and Tutor in English at Magdalen College, University of Oxford. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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