With illustrations by Edward Landseer, Daniel Maclise, Clarkson
Stanfield, Frank Stone, Richard Doyle, John Leech and John Tenniel, and
with a new Introduction by Cedric Watts, Research Professor of English,
University of Sussex. In these five long stories, written specifically
for Christmas, Dickens combines his concern for social ills with the
myths and memories of childhood and traditional seasonal lore. A
Christmas Carol, the first of the selection, has become a touchstone of
English festive fiction and an enduring favourite internationally.
Repeatedly adapted, parodied, staged and filmed, this richly
influential tale is powerfully vivid and moving. The other stories,
The Chimes, The Cricket on the Hearth, The Battle of Life and The
Haunted Man, blend whimsy, sentiment, comedy, satire, the didactic and
the fantastic, developing resourcefully the theme of individual and
social regeneration.
Christmas Books - Charles Dickens
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