Christmas Carol

by Charles Dickens (Author)

• Used

  Hardcover
  

  $3.47

• Used

  Paperback
  1989

  $3.46

• Used

  Hardcover
  1984

  $16.45

• New

  Paperback
  1994

  $22.06

  Ebenezer Scrooge is a mean and lonely businessman who despises the meaning of Christmas until one Christmas Eve when he is visited by the ghosts of his past, present and future...

  What are the themes?

  Relationships, individual vs. society and responsibility.

  Teaching points

  Many excellent passages which are good models for students' writing.

• New

  Hardcover
  1994

  $15.04

  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.