Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Books.
Title:
Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Books.
Author:
Dickens, Charles.
ISBN:
9780191525476
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (441 pages)
Series:
Oxford World's Classics
Contents:
Cover Page -- Preface1 -- Preface2 -- Title Page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Introduction -- Note on the Text -- Select Bibliography -- A Chronology of Charles Dickens -- Christmas Books -- Preface -- A Christmas Carol -- Preface4 -- Contents -- Stave I Marley's Ghost -- Stave Ii The First of The Three Spirits -- Stave III The Second of The Three Spirits -- Stave IV The Last of The Spirits -- Stave V The End of It -- The Chimes -- First Quarter -- The Cricket on The Hearth -- Dedication Page -- Chirp The First -- The Battle of Life -- Preface5 -- Part The First -- The Haunted Man -- Contents -- Chapter I The Gift Bestowed -- Chapter II The Gift Diffused -- Chapter III The Gift Reversed -- Appendix 1: 'What Christmas Is, As We Grow Older' -- Appendix 2: Dickens's Reading Version of A Christmas Carol -- Explanatory Notes -- Footnotes -- Introduction -- fn01 -- fn02 -- fn03 -- fn04 -- fn05 -- fn06 -- fn07 -- fn08 -- fn09 -- fn10 -- fn11 -- fn12 -- fn13 -- fn14 -- fn15 -- fn16 -- fn17 -- fn18 -- fn19 -- fn20 -- fn21 -- fn22 -- fn23 -- fn24 -- fn25 -- fn26 -- fn27 -- fn28 -- fn29 -- fn30.
Abstract:
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. - ;'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'. -.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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