A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Books
Dickens's ghost story of the miser Ebenezer Scrooge, visited on Christmas Eve by the spirits of past, present and future, with his other Christmas books.
First published in 1843, A Christmas Carol tells how the elderly miser Ebenezer Scrooge is visited on Christmas Eve by the ghost of his former partner Jacob Marley and then by the spirits of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come, and wakes a kinder man. Written as Victorian Britain was reshaping its Christmas traditions, it helped define the holiday. This edition collects it with the other Christmas books Dickens wrote in the 1840s.
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Fredrik Backman
I don't remember the first time I heard it read, but I do remember that the first time I read it for myself I was blown away by how clever the language was, and how playful. I still write with the hope that I will always love words as much as I do every time I read Dickens.
Article · May 2017
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