by Charles Dickens · Penguin Classics · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140623604
VAT included
Hamelyn quality guarantee · checked and verified, or your money back
«The Christmas Books» is the collection of Christmas stories by Charles Dickens, published by Penguin Classics in paperback (240 pages, in English).
It brings together three Christmas stories: A Christmas Carol, The Chimes and The Cricket on the Hearth. In the first, the miserly and solitary Ebenezer Scrooge receives a visit from three spirits who show him his past, present and future Christmases. The other tales combine the festive tone with the social concern and compassion for the humble that characterize Dickens.
The volume is the Penguin Classics edition published on July 2, 2007; A Christmas Carol originally appeared in 1843.
For those who want to read Dickens's classic Christmas stories in English, with their mix of ghosts, redemption and seasonal warmth.
Charles John Huffam Dickens was an English writer and journalist. He created some of literature's best-known fictional characters, and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime and, by the 20th century, critics and scholars had recognised him as a literary genius. His novels and short stories are widely read today.
