Name: A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings
Rating: 4.125 (16 reviews)
ISBN: 9781936594139

Charles Dickens

Dickens' most beloved story, A Christmas Carol, is as much a part of Christmas as mistletoe and carolers. This collection also includes A Christmas Tree, Christmas Dinner and the Christmas chapters from "The Pickwick Papers." Revised reissue.

A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings

4 stars for a Christmas Carol specifically, which is a masterpiece. The other Christmas writings were mostly examples of what people find so frustrating about reading Dickens, page after page is dreary descriptions with the ultimate purpose of explaining that the situation/scene/person is bleak. It was exhausting.

Liam Richardson

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Arjo Gupto

Three years ago, I finally picked up the very popular tradition of watching Frank Capra's 'It's A Wonderful Life' and clearly understood why it had been the most popular of all movies during Christmas and New Years', as the year ends, people who care about such things, try desperately to feel happy, no matter how well or not well the year and their life upto that point has treated them. To achieve that, nothing could help those who care about such things, than the story of George Bailey, which in turn would never have been thought of, had it not been for the themes, narrative structure and characters found in the stories collected in this wonderfully published celebration of Christmas by the greatest storyteller I believe to have ever lived. Thank you #VintageClassics, and thank you Mr Dickens, for keeping Christmas alive till May. A new tradition begins.

Includes "A Christmas Carol," the beloved tale of Scrooge's transformation from humbug to philanthrope; "A Christmas Tree," which gives a child's-eye-view of a Victorian Christmas; "Christmas Dinner," a celebration of a divided family's reunion; and the Christmas chapters from "The Pickwick Papers.

A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Stories

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Noha Abdelaziz

A Christmas Carol is one of the best loved and most quoted of all English language Christmas stories. First published in 1843, it never fails to make an appearance every Christmas in some form. Ebenezer Scrooge, a most disagreeable curmudgeon, is visited by the ghost of his partner Jacob Marley. Marley informs him that he is to receive three visitors this Christmas Eve. They are the spirits of Christmas Past, Present, and Future. By the next morning the change in Scrooge is astonishing, he has become a kind, generous, caring and thoughtful person. Dickens' flair for characters has left us with two who have gone past the story and entered into the English speaking culture - Scrooge and Tiny Tim.

A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings

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