A "Christmas Carol" and Other Christmas Books

by: Charles Dickens

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Author: Charles Dickens

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Series: Oxford World's Classics

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Format: Hardback

Publication date: 14 September 2006

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ISBN: 0199204748 ISBN 13: 9780199204748

A "Christmas Carol" and Other Christmas Books by Charles Dickens

An attractive single-volume hardback edition of Dickens's classic Christmas story which also includes Dickens's four other Christmas Books and a selection of original illustrations. Top page

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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'. Top page

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Publisher & Imprint: Oxford University Press

City: Oxford

Pages: 496

More info: height 202 mm width 137 mm weight 608 gr thickness 28 mm

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Age recommended: General/trade

Subject Indexing & Classification Dewey:(DC22) 823.8 Library of Congress Subject: Christmas stories, English

Record updated at: 19 May, 2013 time: 18:30

Summary A "Christmas Carol" and Other Christmas Books A Christmas Carol; The Chimes; The Cricket on the Hearth; The Battle of Life; The Haunted Man Top page

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