02731nam 2200493 a 450 991015434160332120221108101445.00-19-157858-4(CKB)2550000001219429(StDuBDS)AH21617793(EXLCZ)99255000000121942920080130e20082006 uy fengur|||||||||||A Christmas carol and other Christmas books[electronic resource] /Charles Dickens[New ed.] /edited with an introduction and notes by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst.Oxford Oxford University Press20081 online resource (xlviii, 438 p. ) illOxford world's classicsThis ed. originally published: 2006.Includes bibliographical references (p. xxxii-xxxv).A Christmas Carol; The Chimes; The Cricket on the Hearth; The Battle of Life; The Haunted ManThis single-volume edition of Dicken's classic Christmas story also includes Dicken's four other Christmas books and a selection of original illustrations.'What was merry Christmas to Scrooge? Out upon merry Christmas! What good had it ever done to him?' 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 Scrooge's 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 Dickens's 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'.Scrooge, Ebenezer (Fictitious character)FictionPoor familiesFictionMisersEnglandLondonFictionChristmas stories, EnglishClassics.eflchElectronic books.lcshScrooge, Ebenezer (Fictitious character)Poor familiesMisersChristmas stories, English.823.8Dickens Charles1812-1870.154882Douglas-Fairhurst Robert478084StDuBDSStDuBDSStDuBDSZUkPrAHLSBOOK9910154341603321A Christmas carol and other Christmas books2962241UNINA