A Christmas Carol

by Charles Dickens (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  1997

  $9.75

• Used

  Paperback
  2007

  $3.29

  After reading A Christmas Carol, the notoriously reculsive Thomas Carlyle was 'seized with a perfect convulsion of hospitality' and threw not one but two Christmas dinner parties. The impact of the story may not always have been so dramatic but, along with Dickens' other Christmas writings, it has had a lasting and significant influence upon our ideas about the Christmas spirit, and about the season as a time for celebration, charity and memory.

• Used

  Hardcover
  1999

  $3.29

  An abridged version of one of Charles Dickens' best-loved tales A Christmas Carol.The festive season approaches, but Ebenezer Scrooge is a heartless old miser who doesn't enjoy Christmas and doesn't think anyone else should, either. He even begrudges giving his clerk Bob Cratchit Christmas Day off! One mysterious Christmas Eve, some ghostly visitors take Scrooge on a journey through time that changes his mind forever.

• New

  Paperback
  2003

  $19.16

  Emerging from Dickens's preoccupation in the early 1840s with issues of poverty, ignorance, and cruelty, this classic story of Ebeneezer Scrooge, visited by four ghosts on Christmas Eve, was first published in 1843 to strong reviews and popular success. The Broadview edition uses the first edition with original drawings by John Leech.

• New

  Hardcover
  1994

  $14.23

  The most popular of all ghost stories was first published on 17 December 1843, and by Christmas Eve 6, 000 copies had been sold at a published price of five shillings. The story of Scrooge, a miser who becomes a different man when he is presented with visions of past, present and future by Marley's ghost, was an immediate success and has remainded so ever since. It is a book to read on Christmas Eve beside a blazing fire - and the best introduction to Dickens for young readers not quite ready for his longer novels. Arthur Rackham, master of the fantastic, illustrated the story in 1915.