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Christmas Books | 
| Author: Charles Dickens
Publisher: BookSurge Publishing
Category: Book
Buy New: $19.99
Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 2848400
Media: Paperback
Pages: 479
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4
Dimensions (in): 8.1 x 5.3 x 1.4
ISBN: 0543897109
EAN: 9780543897107
ASIN: 0543897109
Publication Date: May 11, 2001
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Product Description
A Christmas classic for more than 150 years, "A Christmas Carol" tells the story of the cantankerous Ebenezer Scrooge, his underpaid clerk Bob Cratchit, and Bob's frail son Tiny Tim, one of Dickens' most enduring and popular characters. When Scrooge, a miserly money-changer, is visited by the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future on one cold and snowy Christmas evening, all three of their lives change for ever...
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Review of the Nonesuch Dickens edition May 7, 2009
z hayes (plano,texas)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
My review here is not of the novel, but rather of the Nonesuch edition of Dickens' classic. The book itself is a facsimile edition of the 1937 Nonesuch Dickens, and is published by Barnes and Noble. The book itself is in quality hardback. "The Christmas Books" Nonesuch edition has the spine bound in leather and the rest of the cover is cloth-bound [the color is red].The dust jacket is clear quality plastic. The paper quality is of good stock and is cream in color.
The text is set in Martin's Type and the etchings were printed and hand-colored by A. Alexander and Sons Ltd. This is a beautiful and affordable classic [I own six of them and plan to get the rest] and the Nonesuch Dickens Classics will enhance any collector's library.
Very moving stories and a great publishing house December 14, 2000
Toby Anderson (Alameda, California)
19 out of 19 found this review helpful
Dickens' Christmas Books might be some of his most overlooked works, except for, of course, "A Christmas Carol." But in these stories he has captured the season's spirits of reflection and faith better than any other work I've read. "A Christmas Carol" is an acknowledged masterpiece; "The Chimes" and "The Battle of Life" are particularly moving as well. Four of these five stories bring me to tears by their ends.I started in 1991 to read one story per year in the published sequence, (for Christmas 2000, I'm reading The Haunted Man again) and this has made December and its holidays more enjoyable and meaningful for me. I hope to continue the cycle and look forward to reading "this year's Christmas story" aloud to my family as my kids grow up. Oxford Press/World's Classics publishes excellent quality paperbacks, and they do justice here to Dickens' powerful works. I highly recommend this work (and especially this publisher) to anyone; if you're looking for "A Christmas Carol", get this volume of all the Christmas Stories and enjoy even more of Dickens' masterful ability to weave the human condition into such moving short stories.
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