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A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings Charles Dickens

A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings By Charles Dickens

A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings by Charles Dickens


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Summary

Tells the story of the solitary miser Ebenezer Scrooge, who is taught the true meaning of Christmas by the three ghosts of Christmas. This title also includes: The Story of the Goblins who Stole a Sexton, and the short story from The Pickwick Papers on which A Christmas Carol was based.

A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings Summary

A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings by Charles Dickens

'Every idiot who goes about with Merry Christmas on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding'

Dickens's story of solitary miser Ebenezer Scrooge, who is taught the true meaning of Christmas by a series of ghostly visitors, has had an enduring influence on the way we think about the season. Dickens's other Christmas writings collected here include 'The Story of the Goblins who Stole a Sexton'; 'The Haunted Man'; and shorter pieces, some drawn from the 'Christmas Stories' that Dickens wrote annually for his weekly journals. In all of them Dickens celebrates Christmas as a time of geniality, charity and remembrance.


Edited with an introduction by MICHAEL SLATER

About Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens (1812-70) was a political reporter, journalist & novelist. His novels include Great Expectations, David Copperfield & Bleak House.
Michael Slater is Emeritus Professor at Birkbeck College, London & a past President of the Dickens Fellowship & the Dickens Society of America.

Table of Contents

A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas WritingsA Dickens Chronology
Introduction
Further Reading
A Note on the Texts

Christmas Festivities

The Story Of The Goblins Who Stole A Sexton

A Christmas Episode From Master Humphrey's Clock

A Christmas Carol

The Haunted Man And The Ghost's Bargain

A Christmas Tree

What Christmas Is, As We Grow Older

The Seven Poor Travellers


Appendix I: Dickens's Prefaces to Collected Editions of The Christmas Books
Appendix II: Dickens's Descriptive Headlines for A Christmas Carol and The Haunted Man
Appendix III: Dickens and The Arabian Nights
Notes

Additional information

GOR001284695
9780140439052
0140439056
A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings by Charles Dickens
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Penguin Books Ltd
20031030
336
N/A
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