Christmas Books (Wordsworth Classics)

Christmas Books (Wordsworth Classics)

by Charles Dickens (Author), Clarkson Stanfield (Illustrator), Daniel Maclise (Illustrator), Charles Dickens (Author), Clarkson Stanfield (Illustrator), Charles Dickens (Author), Dr Keith Carabine (Series Editor), Daniel Maclise (Illustrator), Frank Stone (Illustrator), Charles Dickens (Author), John Tenniel (Illustrator), John Leech (Illustrator), Richard Doyle (Illustrator), Professor Cedric Watts M.A. Ph.D. (Introduction), Edward Landseer (Illustrator)

Synopsis

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.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 416
Edition: New Ed
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions
Published: 05 Oct 1995

ISBN 10: 1853262684
ISBN 13: 9781853262685