A christmas carol: and other stories, hardcover/charles dickens

Description 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 Scrooges 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 Dickenss 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 Author Robert Douglas-Fairhurst is the author of Becoming Dickens (Harvard UP, 2011), winner of the 2011 Duff Cooper Prize, and has edited editions of Dickenss Great Expectation s, Henry Mayhews London Labour and the London Poor , and Charles Kingsleys The Water-Babies for Oxford Worlds Classics.

He writes regularly for publications including the Daily Telegraph, The Guardian, TLS , and New Statesman .