A Christmas Carol And Other Christmas Books

Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2006-09-13
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780191578588

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A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Books by Charles Dickens Pdf

'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.

Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher : Everyman's Library
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2009-11-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307271754

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A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Books by Charles Dickens Pdf

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 is complete without the story of tightfisted Mr. Scrooge, of his long-suffering and mild-mannered clerk, Bob Cratchit, of Bob’s kindhearted lame son, Tiny Tim, and of the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future. First published in 1843, A Christmas Carol was republished in 1852 in a new edition with four other Christmas stories—The Chimes, The Cricket on the Hearth, The Battle of Life, and The Haunted Man. These beloved tales revived the notion of the Christmas “spirit”—and have kept it alive ever since.

Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Children's stories, English
ISBN : 0780756738

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A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Stories by Charles Dickens Pdf

Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 760 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Christmas stories, English
ISBN : OCLC:1258110035

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A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Classics by Charles Dickens Pdf

Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2017-12-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9788027233700

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Charles Dickens: A Christmas Carol & Other Christmas Books (5 Books in One Edition) by Charles Dickens Pdf

A Christmas Carol- The tale has been viewed by critics as an indictment of 19th-century industrial capitalism. It has been credited with restoring the holiday to one of merriment and festivity in Britain and America after a period of sobriety and sombreness. The Chimes - The story of Trotty Veck, a poor ticket porter, whose outlook is changed from despair to hope by the spirits of the chimes on New Year's Eve. The Cricket on the Hearth - Short tale written by Charles Dickens as a Christmas book for 1845 but published in 1846. The title creature is a sort of barometer of life at the home of John Peerybingle and his much younger wife Dot. When things go well, the cricket on the hearth chirps; it is silent when there is sorrow. Tackleton, a jealous old man, poisons John's mind about Dot, but the cricket through its supernatural powers restores John's confidence and all ends happily. The Battle of Life - In this tale, the main characters live in a rural English village that was the site of an historic battle. The battle comes to symbolize the struggles these characters face in their daily lives. The Haunted Man - It is a novella by Charles Dickens first published in 1848. It is the fifth and last of Dickens' Christmas novellas. The story is more about the spirit of the holidays than about the holidays themselves, harking back to the first of the series, A Christmas Carol. The tale centers around a Professor Redlaw and those close to him. Charles Dickens (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's most memorable fictional characters and is generally regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian period.

Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher : Modern Library
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2000-11-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780679641315

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A Christmas Carol and Other Stories by Charles Dickens Pdf

An immediate bestseller when it was first published in December 1843, A Christmas Carol has endured ever since as a perennial Yuletide favorite. Charles Dickens's beloved tale about the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge--who comes to know the meaning of kindness, charity, and goodwill through a haunting Christmas Eve encounter with four ghosts--is a heartwarming celebration of the spirit of Christmas. 'Whether the Christmas visions would or would not convert Scrooge, they convert us,' wrote G. K. Chesterton. 'The story sings from end to end like a happy man going home.' The Modern Library edition also presents two more of Dickens's popular Christmas stories, The Chimes and The Haunted Man, Dickens's last Christmas tale, which features one of his greatest comic families, the Tetterbys. With an introduction by John Irving.

Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Christmas stories
ISBN : 1435117913

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A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens Pdf

Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1858
Category : Christmas stories
ISBN : OXFORD:503683436

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A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens Pdf

Everyone is familiar with this classic Christmas story. Ebenezer Scrooge is a miserly, unpleasant man who despises Christmas and overworks his clerk Bob Cratchit. As he prepares for another Christmas Eve without celebration, Scrooge is greeted by his dead business partner, Jacob Marley who warns him that his greed will not go unpunished. At first, Scrooge doesn't heed Marley's warning, but soon he is visited by the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Christmas Yet to Come. He is made to face his cruel nature, and to consider whether he should change his ways. This is a free digital copy of a book that has been carefully scanned by Google as part of a project to make the world's books discoverable online. To make this print edition available as an ebook, we have extracted the text using Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology and submitted it to a review process to ensure its accuracy and legibility across different screen sizes and devices. Google is proud to partner with libraries to make this book available to readers everywhere.

Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher : Cosimo, Inc.
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781616400033

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The Complete Works of Charles Dickens by Charles Dickens Pdf

It is impossible to overstate the importance of British novelist CHARLES DICKENS (1812-1870) not only to literature in the English language, but to Western civilization on the whole. He is arguably the first fiction writer to have become an international celebrity. He popularized episodic fiction and the cliffhanger, which had a profound influence on the development of film and television. He is entirely responsible for the popular image of Victorian London that still lingers today, and his characters-from Oliver Twist to Ebenezer Scrooge, from Miss Havisham to Uriah Heep-have become not merely iconic, but mythic. But it was his stirring portraits of ordinary people-not the upper classes or the aristocracy-and his fervent cries for social, moral, and legal justice for the working poor, and in particular for poor children, in the grim early decades of the Industrial Revolution that powerfully impacted social concerns well into the 20th century. Without Charles Dickens, we may never have seen the likes of Sherlock Holmes, Upton Sinclair, or even Bob Dylan. Here, in 30 beautiful volumes-complete with all the original illustrations-is every published word written by one of the most important writers ever. The essential collector's set will delight anyone who cherishes English literature...and who takes pleasure in constantly rediscovering its joys. This volume contains Dickens's famous 1843 novel A Christmas Carol plus his lesser-known tales of the winter holiday: The Chimes (1844), The Cricket on the Hearth (1845), The Battle of Life (1846), and The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain (1848).

Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher : Signet Classics
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0451518691

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A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens Pdf

Includes the full length version of the Christmas carol as well as shorter selections from other Dicken's works.

Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2001-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0140439765

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Christmas Books by Charles Dickens Pdf

Mark Robarts, an ambitious young clergyman, is helped to a comfortable living at Framley by Lady Lufton. When Robarts becomes liable for the debts of an unreliable friend, he turns for help once again to the reluctant Lady Lufton. These audio cassettes contain the complete and unabridged story.

Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 73 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1072666308

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A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens Pdf

A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, commonly known as A Christmas Carol, is a novella by Charles Dickens, first published in London by Chapman & Hall in 1843 and illustrated by John Leech. A Christmas Carol recounts the story of Ebenezer Scrooge, an elderly miser who is visited by the ghost of his former business partner Jacob Marley and the spirits of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come. After their visits, Scrooge is transformed into a kinder, gentler man.Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol during a period when the British were exploring and re-evaluating past Christmas traditions, including carols and newer customs such as Christmas trees. He was influenced by the experiences of his own youth and by the Christmas stories of other authors including Washington Irving and Douglas Jerrold. Dickens had written three Christmas stories prior to the novella, and was inspired following a visit to the Field Lane Ragged School, one of several establishments for London's street children. The treatment of the poor and the ability of a selfish man to redeem himself by transforming into a more sympathetic character are the key themes of the story. There is discussion among academics as to whether this was a fully secular story, or if it is a Christian allegory.Published on 19 December, the first edition sold out by Christmas Eve; by the end of 1844 thirteen editions had been released. Most critics reviewed the novella favourably. The story was illicitly copied in January 1844; Dickens took legal action against the publishers, who went bankrupt, further reducing Dickens's small profits from the publication. He went on to write four other Christmas stories in subsequent years. In 1849 he began public readings of the story which proved so successful he undertook 127 further performances until 1870, the year of his death. A Christmas Carol has never been out of print and has been translated into several languages; the story has been adapted many times for film, stage, opera and other media.A Christmas Carol captured the zeitgeist of the mid-Victorian revival of the Christmas holiday. Dickens had acknowledged the influence of the modern Western observance of Christmas and later inspired several aspects of Christmas, including family gatherings, seasonal food and drink, dancing, games and a festive generosity of spirit.

Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 1720 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-18
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4066338119605

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The Complete Christmas Books of Charles Dickens by Charles Dickens Pdf

e-artnow presents to you the Charles Dickens Christmas collection with the complete novels and stories author dedicated to this most beloved holiday:_x000D_ A Christmas Carol_x000D_ The Chimes_x000D_ The Cricket on the Hearth_x000D_ The Battle of Life_x000D_ The Haunted Man_x000D_ A Christmas Tree_x000D_ What Christmas Is As We Grow Older_x000D_ The Poor Relation's Story_x000D_ The Child's Story_x000D_ The Schoolboy's Story_x000D_ Nobody's Story_x000D_ The Seven Poor Travellers_x000D_ The Holly-Tree_x000D_ The Wreck of the Golden Mary_x000D_ The Perils of Certain English Prisoners_x000D_ A House to Let_x000D_ The Haunted House_x000D_ A Message From the Sea_x000D_ Tom Tiddler's Ground_x000D_ Somebody's Luggage_x000D_ Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings_x000D_ Mrs. Lirriper's Legacy_x000D_ Doctor Marigold's Prescriptions_x000D_ Mugby Junction_x000D_ No Thoroughfare_x000D_ Christmas at Fezziwig's Warehouse

Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1435170458

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A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Tales: (Barnes and Noble Collectible Editions: Omnibus Edition) by Charles Dickens Pdf

Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher : Tribeca Books
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2010-10-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1936594137

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A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings by Charles Dickens Pdf

Dickens' most beloved story, A Christmas Carol, is as much a part of Christmas as mistletoe and carolers. This collection also includes A Christmas Tree, Christmas Dinner and the Christmas chapters from "The Pickwick Papers." Revised reissue.