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Christmas books (New ed)

Dickens, CharlesMorpurgo, Michael(Introduction by)
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Dickens' definitive Christmas tales including A Christmas Carol and four other stories are collected in a beautifully produced small hardback with embossed covers on the front and back.

The Christmas Books were first published in a single volume in 1852, bringing together five stories which Charles Dickens wrote specially for the Christmas season, beginning in 1843 with A Christmas Carol.

Over the next three years Dickens published "The Chimes," "The Cricket on the Hearth," and "The Battle of Life." There was no story in 1847 but a fifth, "The Haunted Man," appeared in 1848.

The Christmas Books, and in particular A Christmas Carol, are considered so influential that they are credited with inventing our modern notion of Christmas itself.

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Product Details
White's Books Ltd
095626686X / 9780956266866
Hardback
823.8
28/10/2010
United Kingdom
English
Classics
464 p.
19 cm
General (US: Trade) Learn More
Originally published: 2005. Contents: A Christmas carol -- The chimes -- The cricket on the hearth -- The battle of life -- The haunted man.