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Christmas Books

Dickens, CharlesDoyle, Richard(Illustrated by)Landseer, Edward(Illustrated by)Leech, John(Illustrated by)Maclise, Daniel(Illustrated by)Stanfield, Clarkson(Illustrated by)Stone, Frank(Illustrated by)Tenniel, John(Illustrated by)Watts, Professor Cedric, M.A. Ph.D. (Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex)(Introduction by)Carabine, Dr Keith (University of Kent at Canterbury)(Series edited by)
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With illustrations by Edward Landseer, Daniel Maclise, Clarkson Stanfield, Frank Stone, Richard Doyle, John Leech and John Tenniel, and with a new Introduction by Cedric Watts, Research Professor of English, University of Sussex. In these five long stories, written specifically for Christmas, Dickens combines his concern for social ills with the myths and memories of childhood and traditional seasonal lore. A Christmas Carol, the first of the selection, has become a touchstone of English festive fiction and an enduring favourite internationally.

Repeatedly adapted, parodied, staged and filmed, this richly influential tale is powerfully vivid and moving. The other stories, The Chimes, The Cricket on the Hearth, The Battle of Life and The Haunted Man, blend whimsy, sentiment, comedy, satire, the didactic and the fantastic, developing resourcefully the theme of individual and social regeneration.

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Wordsworth Editions Ltd
1853262684 / 9781853262685
Paperback / softback
823.8
05/10/1995
United Kingdom
English
416 pages
129 x 198 mm, 260 grams
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