{"product_id":"a-christmas-carol-and-other-christmas-stories-paperback","title":"A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Stories - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCharles Dickens\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eRegina Barrecca\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by), \u003cb\u003eGerald Charles Dickens\u003c\/b\u003e (Afterword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA delightful holiday collection that includes \"A Christmas Carol\" and other classic Charles Dickens Christmas stories.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs much a part of Christmas as mistletoe and carolers, Dickens' \"A Christmas Carol\" was once read publicly on Christmas Eve each year by Dickens himself. This heartwarming tale continues to stir in us the same feelings of repentance, forgiveness, and love that transformed Ebenezer Scrooge from grumbling, \"Bah  Humbug \" to sharing Tiny Tim's happy \"God bless us, every one \" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Dickens's other Christmas stories prove as rich as his most famous. \"A Christmas Tree\" describes a Victorian Christmas as seen through a child's delighted eyes. \"Christmas Dinner\" celebrates the reunion of a divided family, while the Christmas chapters from \u003ci\u003eThe Pickwick Papers\u003c\/i\u003e move from the exhilaration of a Christmas wedding to a shivery ghost story that foreshadows the spirits seen by Scrooge. Warmly nostalgic and beautifully written, the Christmas stories of Charles Dickens deserve a very special place in our memories and our hearts.\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn 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. \u003cbr\u003eThis Modern Library Paperback Classics edition also includes two other popular Christmas stories by Dickens: \"The Chimes, in which a man, persuaded by hypocritical cant that the poor deserve their misery, is shown what his pessimistic resignation might lead to in a vision conjured by the pealing of bells, and \"The Haunted Man, Dickens's last Christmas tale, which features one of his great comic families, the Tetterbys.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCharles Dickens \u003c\/b\u003ewas born on February 7, 1812, at Landport, near Portsmouth, England. He died at Gads Hill, his home in Kent, on June 9, 1870. The second of eight children in a family often plagued by debt, Dickens at ten saw his father arrested and confined in the Marshalsea, a debtors' prison in London, and although a small boy he was placed in a blacking factory where he worked at labeling bottles, visiting John Dickens on Sundays. Charles returned to school on his father's release, taught himself shorthand, and at sixteen became a parliamentary reporter. At twenty-four his career took off with the publication of \u003ci\u003eSketches by Boz\u003c\/i\u003e (1836), which was followed by \u003ci\u003ePickwick Papers\u003c\/i\u003e the next year. As a novelist and magazine editor he had a long run of serialized successes through \u003ci\u003eOur Mutual Friend \u003c\/i\u003e(1864-65). His family life had ended earlier, in 1858, when fame drew him apart from his wife of twenty-three years, Catherine, and (although his readers never knew) into the arms of young Ellen Ternan, an actress. Ill health slowed him down but he continued his popular dramatic readings from his fiction to an adoring public that included Queen Victoria. At his death he left \u003ci\u003eThe Mystery of Edwin Drood\u003c\/i\u003e unfinished.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 224\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.59 x 6.79 x 4.26 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 06, 2011\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52696269521203,"sku":"9780451532022","price":12.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/kWkGWHTX0L9780451532022.webp?v=1763106817","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/a-christmas-carol-and-other-christmas-stories-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}