A Christmas Carol - Softcover

Dickens, Charles

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1557489637 ISBN 13: 9781557489630

Publisher: Barbour Publishing, Incorporated, 1997

Synopsis

Now available at a bargain price--Charles Dickens' best-loved and best-known tale! Miserly Ebenezer Scrooge hates Christmas--until one Christmas Eve, three spirits take him on journeys through the past, present and future. Scrooge comes to know the meaning of kindness, charity and goodwill in this story of yuletide joy.

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About the Author

Charles Dickens, perhaps the best British novelist of the Victorian era, was born in Portsmouth, Hampshire, England in 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 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, 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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Barbour Publishing, Incorporated
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1557489637
• ISBN 13: 9781557489630
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 99
• Editor: Barbour Books Staff