A Christmas Carol (Enhanced Edition) [NOOK Book]

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Christmas past, present, and future and the redemptive power of giving brought vividly to life by Monica Dickens' reading of A Christmas Carol together with the original text.


Christmas can be happy and difficult in equal measure. Charles and Monica Dickens recognized ...
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Overview

Christmas past, present, and future and the redemptive power of giving brought vividly to life by Monica Dickens' reading of A Christmas Carol together with the original text.


Christmas can be happy and difficult in equal measure. Charles and Monica Dickens recognized this and both have left an extraordinary legacy affirming the redemptive power of giving.



A Christmas Carol tells the timeless tale of Scrooge, the most miserly of all misers, and how he is shown the true meaning of Christmas by four ghostly visitors - his partner Marley, and the ghosts of Christmas Past, Christmas Present and Christmas Yet To Come. By Christmas day, he has learnt his lesson and is willing to enter into the spirit of things.


Monica Dickens reads A Christmas Carol as it was read to her by her grandfather, who in turn heard it from the author himself. Monica Dickens gave an everlasting gift to others by establishing the Samaritans on Cape Cod and the Islands in Falmouth, Massachusetts in 1977. This recording is the original radio version which has been enhanced by new music and engineering to honor them both. Proceeds will benefit Samaritan crisis lines, support groups for those who have lost someone to suicide, and community outreach programs.


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The Guardian
"This is taking an early position as my favourite way to celebrate the great man's 200th birthday: a recording of his great grand-daughter Monica Dickens reading A Christmas Carol."
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781448206797
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
  • Publication date: 12/1/2011
  • Sold by: Barnes & Noble
  • Format: eBook
  • Sales rank: 101,450
  • File size: 97 MB
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Meet the Author

Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens, 7 February 1812 - 9 June 1870, was an English novelist, generally considered the greatest of the Victorian period. Dickens enjoyed a wider popularity and fame than had any previous author during his lifetime, and he remains popular, having been responsible for some of English literature’s most iconic novels and characters.


Monica Dickens, MBE, 10 May 1915 - 25 December 1992, great- granddaughter of Charles Dickens and author of over 40 books for adults and children. Disillusioned with the world she was brought up in - she was expelled from St Paul’s Girls’ School in London before she was presented at court as a debutante - she decided to go into service and her experiences as a cook and general servant formed the basis of her first book, One Pair Of Hands in 1939. She married a United States Navy officer and moved to America where she continued to write, most of her books being set in Britain.


Monica Dickens had strong humanitarian interests and founded the Cape Cod and the Islands Samaritans in 1977, and it is for this charity that she recorded this audio edition of A Christmas Carol to benefit Samaritan crisis lines, support groups for those who have lost someone to suicide, and community outreach programs. In 1985 she returned to the UK after the death of her husband, and continued to write until her death on Christmas Day 1992.

Biography

Born on February 7, 1812, Charles Dickens was the second of eight children in a family burdened with financial troubles. Despite difficult early years, he became the most successful British writer of the Victorian age.

In 1824, young Charles was withdrawn from school and forced to work at a boot-blacking factory when his improvident father, accompanied by his mother and siblings, was sentenced to three months in a debtor's prison. Once they were released, Charles attended a private school for three years. The young man then became a solicitor's clerk, mastered shorthand, and before long was employed as a Parliamentary reporter. When he was in his early twenties, Dickens began to publish stories and sketches of London life in a variety of periodicals.

It was the publication of Pickwick Papers (1836-1837) that catapulted the twenty-five-year-old author to national renown. Dickens wrote with unequaled speed and often worked on several novels at a time, publishing them first in monthly installments and then as books. His early novels Oliver Twist (1837-1838), Nicholas Nickleby (1838-1839), The Old Curiosity Shop (1840-1841), and A Christmas Carol (1843) solidified his enormous, ongoing popularity. As Dickens matured, his social criticism became increasingly biting, his humor dark, and his view of poverty darker still. David Copperfield (1849-1850), Bleak House (1852-1853), Hard Times (1854), A Tale of Two Cities (1859), Great Expectations (1860-1861), and Our Mutual Friend (1864-1865) are the great works of his masterful and prolific period.

In 1858 Dickens's twenty-three-year marriage to Catherine Hogarth dissolved when he fell in love with Ellen Ternan, a young actress. The last years of his life were filled with intense activity: writing, managing amateur theatricals, and undertaking several reading tours that reinforced the public's favorable view of his work but took an enormous toll on his health. Working feverishly to the last, Dickens collapsed and died on June 8, 1870, leaving The Mystery of Edwin Drood uncompleted.

Author biography from the Barnes & Noble Classics edition of David Copperfield.

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    1. Also Known As:
      Charles John Huffam Dickens (full name) "Boz" (pen name)
    1. Date of Birth:
      February 7, 1812
    2. Place of Birth:
      Portsmouth, England
    1. Date of Death:
      June 18, 1870
    2. Place of Death:
      Gad's Hill, Kent, England

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  • Posted January 15, 2010

    This is a great book and I would recommend it for all readers.

    Do you celebrate Christmas? Well if you don't your on the same level as Scrooge the main character of A Christmas Carol. Charles Dickens created a true masterpiece when he wrote A Christmas Carol, telling a story of a man who had to decide what is right to change his future. This fictitious story really gets the gears in your head turning. Scrooge is a very mean man in 1800s London. His business partner, Marley, dies at the very beginning of the story and later visits scrooge as a ghost. He tells Scrooge he will be visited by three ghosts. The Ghost of Christmas Past, the Ghost of Christmas Present, and the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come. They take him through different parts of his life. All three have different personalities. Charles Dickens gives great details of the characters without telling you directly. Throughout the whole story Charles dickens keeps you wanting more of the story line and makes sense with the book. Overall it's a great book with sophisticated words, and I would recommend this book for all readers.

    27 out of 33 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted November 30, 2010

    Best format for nook

    This edition was carefully created with the nook specifically in mind.

    19 out of 28 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 4, 2011

    To idk

    Enhanced means : Intensify, increase, or further improve the quality, value or extent of.

    So by an enhanced book they probably mean that it has error-text, no huge spaces between paragraphs. Stuff like that. It just means that they fixed it up so that you can enjoy it more.

    By the way, this is an amazing book. You should get it.

    Hope that i was of assistance to you.

    18 out of 23 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted November 28, 2009

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    Great Expectations (Barnes & Noble Classics Series)

    A Classic...

    I read this book every year around the holidays and really enjoy it every time. I have seen many versions of the story such as Scrooge and a Christmas Carol in movies but nothing beats the book.

    15 out of 20 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted December 6, 2010

    Great! Highly recommend--

    This classic is well presented in a very readable format. A good choice.

    13 out of 14 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 23, 2011

    Anonamous

    BEST BOOK EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    9 out of 10 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted January 22, 2012

    Enjoyable!

    It was a nice holiday story to finish out Christmas season. What was really nice was being able to listen to the audio and hear the story behind the story.

    8 out of 10 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted November 30, 2010

    Best version for nook!

    This version was crafted with nook's screen in mind.

    8 out of 14 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted January 20, 2012

    Wonderful Classic

    A wonderful, quick read during the holiday season. It's a great story that I will most likely come back to again. I seen so many adaptations in movies and plays, it was nice to finally read the original story.

    7 out of 7 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted February 9, 2012

    Wow

    Its such a good book! What a tridition

    4 out of 5 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted February 7, 2012

    love it

    I love the story Christmas Carol and have it in every media you can get by everyone you can think of from the muppets to albert finney, but had never read the book so when I got my NOOK tablet for Christmas and so this I said it time to read the book or at least listen and I did both and it is still the most wonderful story at Christmas.

    4 out of 5 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted November 21, 2011

    Great story. So so ebook quality

    Readable but some strange type conversions

    4 out of 8 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted September 25, 2011

    Ehhhh

    I love the story but it was hard to read it was in script form

    4 out of 6 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted February 20, 2010

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    I Also Recommend:

    Great Expectations (Barnes & Noble Classics Series)
    Pride and Prejudice (Barnes & Noble Classics Series)

    Always entertaining. One of our Christmas traditions never fails to move me.

    I have always loved this book and began a tradition of reading it to my children when they were young. The writing may not be the peak of Dickens's style but is still excellent. And the story never fails to move and entertain me. This year I read it on my new Nook -- and once again, I thoroughly enjoyed it. I would certainly recommend this book to anyone who likes a good, rousing and touching story and a well-written book.

    4 out of 4 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted February 12, 2012

    Wonderful

    I enjoyed this book! It was mysterious and funny! Great for all ages!

    3 out of 3 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 15, 2012

    I liked this a lot!

    I liked this a lot, especially the reading by his grandaughter.

    3 out of 5 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted January 14, 2012

    Great Book

    Good classic read for the holidays. Love the linked chapter contexts in the front of the book.

    3 out of 3 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted January 6, 2012

    An excellent Classic!!!

    Just in time for the Christmas Holiday. We really enjoyed it!!

    3 out of 3 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 6, 2012

    Christmas carol

    Best christmas book ever its a great classic book

    3 out of 3 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 5, 2012

    It's a great Christmas Classic

    The character Ebeneezer Scrooge has to be one of Dicken's famous characters. In his novella, Dickens portrays a man disappointed with himself and who regards the world with contempt. I always thought of the visits by the three spirits as therapy. Modern pyschology hadn't evolved in the 1840s and somehow Scrooge's breakthrough comes through as a recovered patient.
    I read that Dickens was a contemporary of Karl Marx and as Marx advocated social change to improve the conditions prevalent during that time, Dickens believed that change could come about by social awareness. Laws could be legislated because society felt compassion.
    The two children Ignorance and Want, who are hidden under the cloak of the Spirit of Christmas Present were not intended only for plot of the story but as a reminder for Dickens' readers.
    Are not the 21st century readers still having to think of that boy and girl today? The media presents us news of children in refugee camps,starving children, and homeless families. We are confronted with the reality of want during this time of joy.

    3 out of 4 people found this review helpful.

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