A Christmas Carol: And Other Christmas Books

Charles Dickens

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Nov 29, 2011 - Fiction - 416 pages

No holiday season is complete without Charles Dickens’s timeless tale of redemption starring the tightfisted Mr. Scrooge, the long-suffering Bob Cratchit, kindhearted Tiny Tim, and the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future. But A Christmas Carol was only the first and most famous of Dickens’s holiday tales.

In this edition, everyone’s favorite misanthrope appears in company with four more Dickens stories—The Chimes, The Cricket on the Hearth, The Battle of Life, and The Haunted Man—that further develop the Christmas spirit Dickens did so much to invent.

Contents

• Stave I: 9
• Stave 2: 27
• Stave 3: 42
• Stave 4: 65
• Stave: 79
• The Chimes: 87
• derly and fondly to that breast from which she had been so long: 321
• The Haunted Man: 325

About the author

Charles Dickens (1812-1870) was born in Portsmouth, England, and spent most of his life in London. When he was twelve, his father was sent to debtor’s prison and he was forced to work in a boot polish factory to help support the family, an experience that marked him for life. At age fifteen he found work in an attorney’s office and later become a reporter. His first stories and sketches were published in 1833, and after his tremendous success with the serialization of The Pickwick Papers in 1836 he turned to writing novels. A passionate advocate of social reform throughout his life, he was the most popular writer of the Victorian era.

Bibliographic information

• Title: A Christmas Carol: And Other Christmas Books; Vintage Classics
• Author: Charles Dickens
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2011
• ISBN: 0307947211, 9780307947215
• Length: 416 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Historical / General; Fiction / Holidays; Fiction / Literary