Dickens Charles - A Christmas Carol And Other Christmas Books - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: 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 Scrooge's 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 Dickens's 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'. About THE Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features including expert introductions by leading authorities helpful notes to clarify the text up - to - date bibliographies for further study and much more.
Title: A Christmas Carol And Other Christmas Books
Author(s): Dickens Charles, Douglas-Fairhurst, Robert (Fellow And Tutor In English, Magdalen College, University Of Oxford)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Barcode: 9780199536306
Pages: 496 Pages, 20 Halftones
Publication Date: 7/15/2008
Series: Oxford World's Classics
Category: Classic Fiction