A Christmas Carol: GCSE 9-1 set text student edition (Collins Classroom Classics)

A Christmas Carol: GCSE 9-1 set text student edition (Collins Classroom Classics)

by Charles Dickens (Author), Charles Dickens (Author), Charles Dickens (Author), Charles Dickens (Author), Collins GCSE (Author), Richard Vardy (Introduction)

Synopsis

`If I could work my will,' said Scrooge, indignantly, `every idiot who goes about with Merry Christmas on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart.'

Miser and misanthropist Ebenezer Scrooge hates the festive season. Can the visitations of his dead business partner Jacob Marley and the spirits of Christmas past, present and yet to come shake him from his habits, to show him the true value of Christmas?

Dickens's 1843 story was written in response to the plight of the poor, the hungry, the exploited and the uneducated in Victorian society, suggesting that the true test of a society is the way it treats its children.

This Collins Classroom Classics edition includes an introduction and glossary to support students, written by an experienced teacher.

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More Information

Format: Paperback
Pages: 128
Publisher: Collins
Published: 14 Jan 2019

ISBN 10: 0008325960
ISBN 13: 9780008325961

Author Bio
Charles Dickens was born in 1812 and grew up in poverty. This experience influenced `Oliver Twist', the second of his fourteen major novels, which first appeared in 1837. When he died in 1870, he was buried in Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey as an indication of his huge popularity as a novelist, which endures to this day.