A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings

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Penguin UK, Oct 30, 2003 - Fiction - 336 pages

'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

 

Contents

A Dickens Chronology
CHRISTMAS FESTIVITIES
A CHRISTMAS EPISODE FROM MASTER HUMPHREYS CLOCK
other peoples Mine occupies me constantly Good afternoon
THE HAUNTED MAN AND THE GHOSTS BARGAIN
A CHRISTMAS TREE
WHAT CHRISTMAS IS AS WE GROW OLDER
Dickenss Prefaces to Collected Editions of The Christmas
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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.

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