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Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Books

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ISBN-10: 0199536309

ISBN-13: 9780199536306

Edition: 2nd 2008

Authors: Charles Dickens, Robert Douglas-Fairhurst

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'What was merry Christmas to Scrooge? Out upon merry Christmas! What good had it ever done to him?'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 Carol has gripped the public imagination since it was first published in 1843, and it is now as much a part ofChristmas 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, and The Haunted Man. All five stories show Dickens at his unpredictable best, jumbling together comedy and melodrama,genial…    
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Book details

List price: $9.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 7/15/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 496
Size: 5.04" wide x 7.72" long x 0.91" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English

Robert Douglas-Fairhurst was born in 1968 and lives in Oxford, where he is a Fellow and Tutor in English at Magdalen College. His most recent book, Becoming Dickens: The Invention of a Novelist, won the Duff Cooper Prize for Biography.