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A Christmas Carol
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  • Published: 1 September 2010
  • ISBN: 9781409076131
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 352

A Christmas Carol

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'Marley's face. It was not in impenetrable shadow as the other objects in the yard were, but had a dismal light about it, like a bad lobster in a dark cellar.' Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol


Read the ultimate Christmas story of hope and redemption behind the recent BBC TV adaptation

Ebenezer Scrooge despises Christmas. He has no time for festivities or goodwill toward his fellow men and is only interested in money.

Then, on the night of Christmas Eve, his life is changed by a series of ghostly visitations that show him some bitter truths about his choices.

Discover Dickens's most influential book and one of the world’s favourite Christmas reads.

INCLUDES 'THE CHIMES' AND 'THE HAUNTED MAN'
  • Published: 1 September 2010
  • ISBN: 9781409076131
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 352
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About the author

Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens was born in Hampshire on February 7, 1812. His father was a clerk in the navy pay office, who was well paid but often ended up in financial troubles. When Dickens was twelve years old he was send to work in a shoe polish factory because his family had been taken to the debtors' prison. His career as a writer of fiction started in 1833 when his short stories and essays began to appear in periodicals. The Pickwick Papers, his first commercial success, was published in 1836. The serialisation of Oliver Twist began in 1837. Many other novels followed and The Old Curiosity Shop brought Dickens international fame and he became a celebrity in America as well as Britain. Charles Dickens died on 9 June 1870. He is buried in Westminster Abbey.

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Praise for A Christmas Carol

A little masterpiece...irresistible

Sunday Express

A story which, perhaps more than any other, sums up the spirit of the British Christmas

Sunday Telegraph

After 150 years still have the power to fascinate readers

Contemporary Review

Beautifully written and this re-designed cover is stunning

Devon Life

But that story endures and retains the power to move us because it speaks to the human heart, and gives us hope when hope is fading

Tony Parsons, Mirror

It has it all: a spooky ghost story, a heartwarming redemption and a great plot with a satisfyingly happy ending

The Times

One of the great achievements of British culture

D.J. Taylor

The cheerful poverty of the Cratchit family in A Christmas Carol, is a sure-fire tear-jerker. At one public reading by Dickens in Boston, there were "so many pocket handkerchiefs it looked as if a snowstorm had gotten into the hall"

Sunday Express