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Complete Ghost Stories - Wordsworth Classics
Charles Dickens

New Edition

Paperback (05 Feb 1997)


Interest in supernatural phenomena was high during Charles Dickens lifetime. He had always loved a good ghost story himself, particularly at Christmas time, and was open-minded, willing to accept, and indeed put to the test, the existence of spirits.


His natural inclinations toward drama and the macabre made him a brilliant teller of ghost tales, and in the twenty stories presented here, which include his celebrated A Christmas Carol, the full range of his gothic talents can be seen.


Chilling as some of these stories are, Dickens has managed to inject characteristically grotesque comedy as he writes of revenge, insanity, pre-cognition and dream visions, he indulges also in some debunking of contemporary credulity.


Product details

For ages 9-12
Format Paperback | 336 pages
Dimensions 129 x 198 x 15mm | 211g
Publication date 01 Jun 1998
Publisher Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Publication City/Country Herts, United Kingdom
Language English
Edition New edition
Edition Statement New edition
ISBN10 1853267341
ISBN13 9781853267345
Bestsellers rank 28,303