This handsome edition features appendices on 'A Christmas Carol' and 'The Haunted Man,' an essay on Dickens and 'The Arabian Nights,' and Dickens' s prefaces to the collected editions of the Christmas books. Dickens' s classic 'A Christmas Carol' has had significant influence on our ideas about the Christmas spirit, and the season as a time for celebration, charity, and memory. Dicken' s Christmas writings-in a new, sumptuous, and delightful clothbound edition. The impact of the story may not always have been so dramatic but, along with Dickens other Christmas writings, it has had a lasting and significant influence upon our ideas about the Christmas spirit, and about the season as a time for celebration, charity, and memory. After reading Christmas Carol, the notoriously reclusive Thomas Carlyle was "seized with a perfect convulsion of hospitality" and threw not one but two Christmas dinner parties. Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design.
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