A Christmas Carol and Other Stories [Hardcover]

Ebenezer Scrooge is a bad-tempered skinflint who hates Christmas and all it stands for, but a ghostly visitor foretells three apparitions who will thaw Scrooge's frozen heart.A Christmas Carolhas gripped the public imagination since it was first published in 1843, and it is now as much a part of Christmas as mistletoe or plum pudding. This edition reprints the story alongside Dickens's four other Christmas Books:The Chimes, The Cricket on the Hearth, The Battle of Life,andThe Haunted Man.All five stories show Dickens at his unpredictable best, jumbling together comedy and melodrama, genial romance and urgent social satire, in pursuit of his aim to awaken some loving and forbearing thoughts, never out of season in a Christian land.

A Christmas Carol
The Chimes
The Cricket on the Hearth
The Battle of Life
The Haunted Man

Another brilliant edition of the timeless classic. --Books Monthly

A lovely new edition --Shelf Awareness

Robert Douglas-Fairhurstis the author ofBecoming Dickens(Harvard UP, 2011), winner of the 2011 Duff Cooper Prize, and has edited editions of Dickens'sGreat Expectations, Henry Mayhew'sLondon Labour and the London Poor, and Charles Kingsley'sThe Water-Babiesfor Oxford World's Classics. He writes regularly for publications including theDaily Telegraph, The Guardian, TLS, andNew Statesman.