A Christmas Carol has gripped the public imagination since it was first published in , 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 Cited by: 9. Christmas Books is a bind up of all five Christmas novels (A Christmas Carol, The Chimes, The Cricket on the Hearth, The Battle of Life, and The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain) written by Charles Dickens/5(). A Christmas Carol has gripped the public imagination since it was first published in , 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 Cited by: 9.

A Christmas Carol. Emerging from Dickens's preoccupation in the early s with issues of poverty, ignorance, and cruelty, this classic story of Ebeneezer Scrooge, visited by four ghosts on Christmas Eve, was first published in to strong reviews and popular success. The Broadview edition uses the first edition with original drawings by. The presence of these other writings reminds one that "A Christmas Carol" was neither the first nor the last time that Charles Dickens wrote about the Christmas holiday. This Christmas collection proceeds chronologically, and begins with a brief newspaper sketch titled "Christmas Festivities.". A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings (Paperback) Published October 30th by Penguin Classics. Paperback, pages. Author (s): Charles Dickens, Michael Slater (Introduction/Notes) ISBN: (ISBN ) Edition language.

This novel is a collection of Dickens' Christmas stories, including "A Christmas Carol", five other Christmas-themed stories, fourteen very short Christmas stories, and three short Christmas stories he co-wrote. For the sake of time and space, I have only included the five Christmas stories in this review. A Christmas Carol: 5 Obviously. There is no need to sum up this story's plot so I won't go into it. This Modern Library Paperback Classics edition also includes two other popular Christmas stories by Dickens: "The Chimes, in which a man, persuaded by hypocritical cant that the poor deserve their misery, is shown what his pessimistic resignation might lead to in a vision conjured by the pealing of bells, and "The Haunted Man, Dickens's last Christmas tale, which features one of his great comic families, the Tetterbys. A Christmas Carol has gripped the public imagination since it was first published in , 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, and The Haunted Man.