{"product_id":"a-christmas-carol-and-other-christmas-stories-9780451532022","title":"A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Stories","description":"\u003cb\u003eA delightful holiday collection that includes \"A Christmas Carol\" and other classic Charles Dickens Christmas stories.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs much a part of Christmas as mistletoe and carolers, Dickens' \"A Christmas Carol\" was once read publicly on Christmas Eve each year by Dickens himself. This heartwarming tale continues to stir in us the same feelings of repentance, forgiveness, and love that transformed Ebenezer Scrooge from grumbling, \"Bah  Humbug \" to sharing Tiny Tim's happy \"God bless us, every one \" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Dickens's other Christmas stories prove as rich as his most famous. \"A Christmas Tree\" describes a Victorian Christmas as seen through a child's delighted eyes. \"Christmas Dinner\" celebrates the reunion of a divided family, while the Christmas chapters from \u003ci\u003eThe Pickwick Papers\u003c\/i\u003e move from the exhilaration of a Christmas wedding to a shivery ghost story that foreshadows the spirits seen by Scrooge. Warmly nostalgic and beautifully written, the Christmas stories of Charles Dickens deserve a very special place in our memories and our hearts.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Charles Dickens\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Signet Book\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/06\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.24lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 6.79h x 4.26w x 0.59d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780451532022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCharles Dickens \u003c\/b\u003ewas born on February 7, 1812, at Landport, near Portsmouth, England. He died at Gads Hill, his home in Kent, on June 9, 1870. The second of eight children in a family often plagued by debt, Dickens at ten saw his father arrested and confined in the Marshalsea, a debtors' prison in London, and although a small boy he was placed in a blacking factory where he worked at labeling bottles, visiting John Dickens on Sundays. Charles returned to school on his father's release, taught himself shorthand, and at sixteen became a parliamentary reporter. At twenty-four his career took off with the publication of \u003ci\u003eSketches by Boz\u003c\/i\u003e (1836), which was followed by \u003ci\u003ePickwick Papers\u003c\/i\u003e the next year. As a novelist and magazine editor he had a long run of serialized successes through \u003ci\u003eOur Mutual Friend \u003c\/i\u003e(1864-65). His family life had ended earlier, in 1858, when fame drew him apart from his wife of twenty-three years, Catherine, and (although his readers never knew) into the arms of young Ellen Ternan, an actress. Ill health slowed him down but he continued his popular dramatic readings from his fiction to an adoring public that included Queen Victoria. At his death he left \u003ci\u003eThe Mystery of Edwin Drood\u003c\/i\u003e unfinished.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Signet Book","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40601918242931,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":8.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_aac2d14c-2d28-4b53-947d-6496a031acce.jpg?v=1669308649","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/a-christmas-carol-and-other-christmas-stories-9780451532022","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}