A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Stories (Fall River Press Edition)

By Charles Dickens

A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Stories is a gift box full of Dickens’s writings and reflections on the Yuletide season. It includes the full text of A Christmas Carol, featuring all eight illustrations from the first edition by John Leech, the artist who gave fanciful form to Dickens’ vision of Scrooge, Jacob Marley, Bob Cratchit, and the spirits of Christmas. In addition, it includes “The Story of the Goblins Who Stole a Sexton,” a tale told over Christmas dinner in the young Dickens’ Pickwick Papers, as well as the holiday celebrations “A Christmas Dinner,” “A Christmas Tree,” and “What Christmas Is as We Grow Older.”

 

With A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings, you can celebrate the holiday season each time you dip into its pages. This unique collection of Charles Dickens’ writings is filled with holiday cheer that can be savored all the year round.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Fall River Press
• Release date: Oct 4, 2011
• ISBN: 9781435139008

Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens was born in 1812 and grew up in poverty. This experience influenced ‘Oliver Twist’, the second of his fourteen major novels, which first appeared in 1837. When he died in 1870, he was buried in Poets’ Corner in Westminster Abbey as an indication of his huge popularity as a novelist, which endures to this day.

Reviews for A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Stories (Fall River Press Edition)

[john257hopper · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

Read just The Battle of LifeThis was the fourth of Dickens's Christmas stories. It starts off quite well, drawing a comparison between an old battle field and the struggles of modern (1846) life, but then peters out into dullness. Gave up about half way through.

[jseger9000 · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

I've loved watching various incarnations of A Christmas Carol since I was a kid. This year I decided to actually read the thing. By now I (like everyone else) am so familiar with the story that there aren't really any surprises. Just about every character, phrase and event is known almost by heart. But Dickens writing is wonderful. He constantly 'breaks the fourth wall' or whatever they would have called it in the days before TV, passing judgment on his characters and making asides to his readers. The book (novella really) might have started as a quicky cash-in, but Dickens obviously had a good time writing it and that feeling shows. There is absolute joy in the narrative. At times the dialog gets a little too cloyingly sweet (mainly when Scrooge is observing his nephew's or the Cratchit's Christmas parties), but it's a small sin.If you've not read the book, you owe it to yourself to do so, regardless of how many adaptations you've seen. At around a hundred and fifty pages, it is perfect to read in the days right before Christmas.

[benuathanasia · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

A beautiful story that can be read and appreciated at any age. The supplemental Christmas stories varied in quality, but that's to be expected.