'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...
This gorgeous, festive collection features five Christmas stories by the marvellous Charles Dickens. Dickens' Christmas books perfectly capture the spirit of Victorian Christmas and will transport you back into a warming world of festive cheer. His...
*This Book is annotated (it contains a detailed biography of the author). *An active Table of Contents has been added by the publisher for a better customer experience. *This book has been checked and corrected for spelling errors. This publication brings together all 5 books...
A Christmas Carol has gripped the public imagination since it was first published in 1843, and it is now as much a part of the holiday season as is mistletoe or Santa's reindeer. Here is a wonderful collection of Dickens' Christmas stories, graced with many of the original drawings...
A beautiful hardcover edition of the timeless story of everyone's favorite misanthrope, Ebenezer Scrooge, together with four more of Dickens's Christmas tales and with Arthur Rackham's classic illustrations. With an introuduction by Margaret Atwood. No holiday season...
Charles Dickens is largely responsible for the modern idea of "Christmas". His timeless writings preserved the English traditions associated with the holiday and inspired many more. Characters such as Tiny Tim and Scrooge have entered our literature and consciousness. It's no...
No holiday season is complete without Charles Dickens's timeless tale of redemption starring the tightfisted Mr. Scrooge, the long-suffering Bob Cratchit, kindhearted Tiny Tim, and the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future. But A Christmas Carol was only the...
'A Christmas Carol', the famous story of Scrooge, Bob Cratchit, Tiny Tim, and the ghosts of Marley and Christmases past, present, and future, is among these five warm and humane books with which Dickens hoped 'to awaken some loving and forbearing thoughts'. This volume also includes...
This gorgeous, festive collection features five Christmas stories by the marvellous Charles Dickens. Dickens' Christmas books perfectly capture the spirit of Victorian Christmas and will transport you back into a warming world of festive cheer. His...
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...
Dickens is widely known for his masterpiece "A Christmas Carol." Yet it was only the first in a series of five short novels set in the Christmas season, composed by Dickens over six years. Each is a unique classic, and a profound celebration of Christmas, in its own right. The...
Christmas Books is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1869. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus...
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