A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Books

'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'.

ISBN 0199536309   Weight (grammes) 342 ISBN13 9780199536306 (What's this?)   Published in Oxford Publisher Oxford University Press   Series title Oxford World's Classics Imprint Oxford University Press   Previous ISBN 9780192806949 Format Paperback   Height (mm) 196 Publication date 08 May 2008   Width (mm) 128 Library of Congress PR   Spine width (mm) 23 DEWEY 823.8   Academic level General DEWEY edition DC22   Interest age 17 Pages 496   Alternative ISBN 9781606862230 Volumes 1

A Christmas Carol; The Chimes; The Cricket on the Hearth; The Battle of Life; The Haunted Man

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