The Christmas Books: v. 1

by Charles Dickens (Author), Charles Dickens (Author), Charles Dickens (Author), Charles Dickens (Author), Peter Ackroyd (Introduction)

• Used

  Paperback
  1991

  $6.12

• Used

  Paperback
  2010

  $3.25

  A Christmas classic for more than 150 years, A Christmas Carol tells the story of the cantankerous Ebenezer Scrooge, his underpaid clerk Bob Cratchit, and Bob's frail son Tiny Tim, one of Dickens' most enduring and popular characters. When Scrooge, a miserly money-changer, is visited by the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future on one cold and snowy Christmas evening, all three of their lives change for ever...

• New

  Paperback
  1995

  $6.80

  With illustrations by Edward Landseer, Daniel Maclise, Clarkson Stanfield, Frank Stone, Richard Doyle, John Leech and John Tenniel, and with a new Introduction by Cedric Watts, Research Professor of English, University of Sussex. In these five long stories, written specifically for Christmas, Dickens combines his concern for social ills with the myths and memories of childhood and traditional seasonal lore. A Christmas Carol, the first of the selection, has become a touchstone of English festive fiction and an enduring favourite internationally. Repeatedly adapted, parodied, staged and filmed, this richly influential tale is powerfully vivid and moving. The other stories, The Chimes, The Cricket on the Hearth, The Battle of Life and The Haunted Man, blend whimsy, sentiment, comedy, satire, the didactic and the fantastic, developing resourcefully the theme of individual and social regeneration.