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Dickens at Christmas
  • Published: 5 January 2021
  • ISBN: 9781784876746
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 592
  • RRP: $50.00

Dickens at Christmas

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A selection of the best of Dickens' Christmas stories and writings, in one beautiful hardback edition

Discover this selection of the best of Dickens' Christmas stories and writings in one beautiful gift edition.

The ultimate Christmas present.

It is said that Charles Dickens invented Christmas, and within these pages you'll certainly find all the elements of a quintessential traditional Christmas brought to vivid life: snowy rooftops, gleaming shop windows, steaming bowls of punch, plum puddings like speckled cannon balls, sage and onion stuffing, miracles, magic, charity and goodwill.

This beautifully produced Vintage Classics edition gathers together not only Dickens' Christmas Books ('A Christmas Carol', 'The Chimes', 'The Battle of Life', 'The Cricket on the Hearth' and 'The Haunted Man') but also stories that Dickens wrote for the special seasonal editions of his periodicals All the Year Round and Household Words, and a festive tale from The Pickwick Papers.

A must-have for Christmas, this edition should be as necessary to your festivities as holly, mistletoe and silver bells.
  • Published: 5 January 2021
  • ISBN: 9781784876746
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 592
  • RRP: $50.00
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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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Also by Charles Dickens

A Christmas Carol
A Christmas Carol
A Christmas Carol: Popular Penguins
A Tale of Two Cities
Bleak House
The Pickwick Papers
Oliver Twist
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Praise for Dickens at Christmas

[A Christmas Carol is] a story which, perhaps more than any other, sums up the spirit of the British Christmas

Sunday Telegraph

Dickens made Christmas a festival of generosity and moved it away from the unpopular religious festival it had been

Irish Times

Charles Dickens' Christmas stories showed his readers all the magical trappings of the season

Sunday Express

Charles Dickens is an indelible part of Yuletide reading

Guardian