A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings

by Dickens, Charles; Slater, Michael; Slater, Michael

• ISBN13: 9780140439052
• ISBN10: 0140439056
• Additional ISBN(s): 9780140430684
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-09-30
• Publisher: Penguin Classics
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Summary

This new selection of Dickens's Christmas writings confirms his lasting influence upon our idea of the Christmas spirit: that Christmas is a time for celebration, charity, and memory. In addition to the beloved A Christmas Carol, this volume includes such festive works as "Christmas Festivities," "The Story of the Goblins Who Stole a Sexton," "A Christmas Tree," "The Seven Poor Travellers," The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain, and a Christmas episode from Master Humphrey's Clock.

Author Biography

Charles Dickens (1812-1870) was born in Portsmouth, England, one of eight children, grew up in poverty, had little formal education, and yet became the most prominent and revered English Victorian writer as well as a political reporter and journalist. Michael Slater is an emeritus professor at Birkbeck College, London, and past president of the Dickens Fellowship and the Dickens Society of America.

Table of Contents

A Dickens Chronology
Introduction
Further Reading
A Note on the Texts
Christmas Festivities	p. 1
The Story of the Goblins Who Stole a Sexton	p. 7
A Christmas Episode from Master Humphrey's Clock	p. 20
A Christmas Carol	p. 27
The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain	p. 119
A Christmas Tree	p. 231
What Christmas Is, As We Grow Older	p. 248
The Seven Poor Travellers	p. 253
Dickens's Prefaces to Collected Editions of The Christmas Books	p. 265
Dickens's Descriptive Headlines for A Christmas Carol and The Haunted Man	p. 266
Dickens and The Arabian Nights	p. 269
Notes	p. 273
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