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'A Christmas Carol', the famous story of Scrooge, Bob Cratchit, Tiny Tim, and the ghosts of Marley and Christmases past, present, and future, is among these five warm and humane books with which Dickens hoped 'to awaken some loving and forbearing thoughts'. This volume also includes 'The Cricket on the Hearth' and 'The Chimes'. Book jacket.
Author Notes
Charles Dickens, perhaps the best British novelist of the Victorian era, was born in Portsmouth, Hampshire, England on February 7, 1812. His happy early childhood was interrupted when his father was sent to debtors' prison, and young Dickens had to go to work in a factory at age twelve. Later, he took jobs as an office boy and journalist before publishing essays and stories in the 1830s.
His first novel, The Pickwick Papers, made him a famous and popular author at the age of twenty-five. Subsequent works were published serially in periodicals and cemented his reputation as a master of colorful characterization, and as a harsh critic of social evils and corrupt institutions. His many books include Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, Bleak House, Great Expectations, Little Dorrit, A Christmas Carol, and A Tale of Two Cities.
Dickens married Catherine Hogarth in 1836, and the couple had nine children before separating in 1858 when he began a long affair with Ellen Ternan, a young actress. Despite the scandal, Dickens remained a public figure, appearing often to read his fiction. He died in 1870, leaving his final novel, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, unfinished.
(Bowker Author Biography)
Table of Contents
Stave I Marley's Ghost | p. 7 |
Stave II The First of the Three Spirits | p. 23 |
Stave III The Second of the Three Spirits | p. 38 |
Stave IV The Last of the Spirits | p. 58 |
Stave V The End of It | p. 71 |