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 Chistmas spirit Dickens did so much to invent.

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 lat...

Title:A Christmas Carol: And Other Christmas Books

Format:Paperback

Product dimensions:416 pages, 8 X 5.4 X 0.8 in

Shipping dimensions:416 pages, 8 X 5.4 X 0.8 in

Published:November 29, 2011

Publisher:Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Language:English

Appropriate for ages:All ages

ISBN - 13:9780307947215

A Christmas Carol: And Other Christmas Books

byCharles Dickens

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