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A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Books
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Paperback Oxford Worlds Classics (Paperback) English
By (author) Charles Dickens


What was merry Christmas to Scrooge? Out upon merry Christmas! What good had it ever done to him? Ebenezer Scrooge is a bad-tempered skinflint who hates Christmas and all it stands for, but a ghostly visitor foretells three apparitions who will thaw Scrooges frozen heart. A Christmas Carol has gripped the public imagination since it was first published in 1843, and it is now as much a part of Christmas as mistletoe or plum pudding. This edition reprints the story alongside Dickenss four other Christmas Books: The Chimes, The Cricket on the Hearth, The Battle of Life, and The Haunted Man. All five stories show Dickens at his unpredictable best, jumbling together comedy and melodrama, genial romance and urgent social satire, in pursuit of his aim to awaken some loving and forbearing thoughts, never out of season in a Christian land.


Product details

Format Paperback | 496 pages
Dimensions 128 x 196 x 23mm | 342g
Publication date 15 Jul 2008
Publisher Oxford University Press
Publication City/Country Oxford, United Kingdom
Language English
Edition Statement Reprint
Illustrations note 20 halftones
ISBN10 0199536309
ISBN13 9780199536306
Bestsellers rank 2,697