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    A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings

    Part of Penguin Clothbound Classics

    Author Charles Dickens
    Cover Design or Artwork by Coralie Bickford-Smith
    Introduction by Michael Slater
    Edited by Michael Slater
    Notes by Michael Slater
    Hardcover
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    Penguin Adult HC/TR | Penguin Classics
    On sale Sep 28, 2010 | 336 Pages | 9780141195858
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    Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. After reading 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.
    A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas WritingsA Dickens Chronology
    Introduction
    Further Reading
    A Note on the Texts

    Christmas Festivities

    The Story Of The Goblins Who Stole A Sexton

    A Christmas Episode From Master Humphrey's Clock

    A Christmas Carol

    The Haunted Man And The Ghost's Bargain

    A Christmas Tree

    What Christmas Is, As We Grow Older

    The Seven Poor Travellers


    Appendix I: Dickens's Prefaces to Collected Editions of The Christmas Books
    Appendix II: Dickens's Descriptive Headlines for A Christmas Carol and The Haunted Man
    Appendix III: Dickens and The Arabian Nights
    Notes

    Charles Dickens was born in a little house in Landport, Portsea, England, on February 7, 1812. The second of eight children, he grew up in a family frequently beset by financial insecurity. When the family fortunes improved, Charles went back to school, after which he became an office boy, a freelance reporter, and finally an author. With Pickwick Papers (1836–37) he achieved immediate fame. In a few years he was easily the most popular and respected writer of his time. It has been estimated that one out of every ten persons in Victorian England was a Dickens reader. Oliver Twist (1837), Nicholas Nickleby (1838–39), and The Old Curiosity Shop (1840-41) were huge successes. Martin Chuzzlewit (1843–44) was less so, but Dickens followed it with his unforgettable, A Christmas Carol (1843), Bleak House (1852–53), Hard Times (1854), and Little Dorrit (1855–57), which reveal his deepening concern for the injustices of British society. A Tale of Two Cities (1859), Great Expectations (1860–61), and Our Mutual Friend (1864–65) complete his major works. View titles by Charles Dickens

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    Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. After reading 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.

    Table of Contents

    A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas WritingsA Dickens Chronology
    Introduction
    Further Reading
    A Note on the Texts

    Christmas Festivities

    The Story Of The Goblins Who Stole A Sexton

    A Christmas Episode From Master Humphrey's Clock

    A Christmas Carol

    The Haunted Man And The Ghost's Bargain

    A Christmas Tree

    What Christmas Is, As We Grow Older

    The Seven Poor Travellers


    Appendix I: Dickens's Prefaces to Collected Editions of The Christmas Books
    Appendix II: Dickens's Descriptive Headlines for A Christmas Carol and The Haunted Man
    Appendix III: Dickens and The Arabian Nights
    Notes

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    Charles Dickens was born in a little house in Landport, Portsea, England, on February 7, 1812. The second of eight children, he grew up in a family frequently beset by financial insecurity. When the family fortunes improved, Charles went back to school, after which he became an office boy, a freelance reporter, and finally an author. With Pickwick Papers (1836–37) he achieved immediate fame. In a few years he was easily the most popular and respected writer of his time. It has been estimated that one out of every ten persons in Victorian England was a Dickens reader. Oliver Twist (1837), Nicholas Nickleby (1838–39), and The Old Curiosity Shop (1840-41) were huge successes. Martin Chuzzlewit (1843–44) was less so, but Dickens followed it with his unforgettable, A Christmas Carol (1843), Bleak House (1852–53), Hard Times (1854), and Little Dorrit (1855–57), which reveal his deepening concern for the injustices of British society. A Tale of Two Cities (1859), Great Expectations (1860–61), and Our Mutual Friend (1864–65) complete his major works. View titles by Charles Dickens

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