A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Classics

A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Classics

by Charles Dickens
A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Classics

A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Classics

by Charles Dickens

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Overview

A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Classics brings together all five Christmas books that Charles Dickens wrote between 1843 and 1848. In addition to the title tale--one of Dickenss best-known works and a beloved classic of nineteenth century literature--it includes "The Chimes," "A Cricket on the Hearth," "The Battle of Life," and "The Haunted Man"--stories that Dickens hoped would, as he wrote, "awaken some loving an forebearing thoughts" in his readers. Through these immensely popular tales Dickenss name became synonymous, in the minds of his audience, with the warm tidings of the Christmas season. This volume also collects "The Story of the Goblins Who Stole a Sexton," an early sketch that was Dickenss model for "A Christmas Carol." And it includes another fifteen stories, three written in collaboration with Wilkie Collins, and all published in the Christmas issues of the two magazines Dickens edited between 1850 and 1870, Household Words and All the Year Round. These works also celebrate the virtues of home, hearth, and holiday cheer.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781435153622
Publisher: Fall River Press
Publication date: 12/17/2013
Series: Amazing Values Series
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 768
Sales rank: 908,421
File size: 1 MB

About the Author

About The Author
Charles Dickens (1812-1870) is probably the greatest novelist England has ever produced, the author of such famous books as A Christmas Carol, Hard Times, Great Expectations, David Copperfield, and Oliver Twist. His innate comic genius and shrewd depictions of Victorian life — along with his indelible characters — have made his books beloved by readers the world over. Dickens was born in Landport, Portsea, England and died in Kent after suffering a stroke. The second of eight children of a family continually plagued by debt, the young Dickens came to know hunger, privation, and the horrors of the infamous debtors' prison and the evils of child labor. These unfortunate early life experiences helped shape many of his greatest works.

Date of Birth:

February 7, 1812

Date of Death:

June 18, 1870

Place of Birth:

Portsmouth, England

Place of Death:

Gad's Hill, Kent, England

Education:

Home-schooling; attended Dame School at Chatham briefly and Wellington
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