A Christmas Carol | The Chimes | The Haunted Man
by Charles Dickens
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Classic Literature. Fiction. Literature. HTML:An 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. 'Whether the Christmas visions would or would not show more convert Scrooge, they convert us,' wrote G. K. Chesterton. 'The story sings from end to end like a happy man going home.'The Modern Library edition also presents two more of Dickens's popular Christmas stories, The Chimes and The Haunted Man, Dickens's last Christmas tale, which features one of his greatest comic families, the Tetterbys. With an introduction by John Irving. show less
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The particular edition I read included 2 other short stories by Dickens which weren't quite of the same caliber as "A Christmas Carol", which is easily worth a full 4 stars.
The particular edition I read included 2 other short stories by Dickens which weren't quite of the same caliber as "A Christmas Carol", which is easily worth a full 4 stars.
This book contains two other Christmas themed novellas besides the author's most famous work. The Haunted Man is a darker and more subtle take on the topic than A Christmas Carol.
I feel somehow compelled to read A Christmas Carol every December. Enough said.
4093 A Christmas Carol and Other Stories [The Chimes; The Cricket on the Hearth] by Charles Dickens (read 13 Nov 2005) Since I have a plan to read all of Dickens and since this book shows up on some 'best books' lists I decided to read it, even tho I have read parts of it often. The Carol is only 106 pages and it was fun to read it straight through. The other two stories are less memorable.
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Charles Dickens, perhaps the best British novelist of the Victorian era, was born in Portsmouth, Hampshire, England on February 7, 1812. His happy early childhood was interrupted when his father was sent to debtors' prison, and young Dickens had to go to work in a factory at age twelve. Later, he took jobs as an office boy and journalist before show more publishing essays and stories in the 1830s. His first novel, The Pickwick Papers, made him a famous and popular author at the age of twenty-five. Subsequent works were published serially in periodicals and cemented his reputation as a master of colorful characterization, and as a harsh critic of social evils and corrupt institutions. His many books include Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, Bleak House, Great Expectations, Little Dorrit, A Christmas Carol, and A Tale of Two Cities. Dickens married Catherine Hogarth in 1836, and the couple had nine children before separating in 1858 when he began a long affair with Ellen Ternan, a young actress. Despite the scandal, Dickens remained a public figure, appearing often to read his fiction. He died in 1870, leaving his final novel, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, unfinished. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- A Christmas Carol / The Chimes / The Haunted Man; A Christmas Carol | The Chimes | The Haunted Man
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- A Christmas Carol and Other Stories
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- The Modern Classics edition of this title (ISBNs 0375758887, 0679601791, 0679641319) includes three stories: A Christmas carol -- The chimes -- The haunted man Please to not combine with the similar title containing
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