A Christmas Carol
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Publisher Description
"Every idiot who goes around with 'Merry Christmas' on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding"
Charles Dickens's tale of Ebenezer Scrooge, who is haunted by three spirits and learns the true meaning of Christmas has had, along with Dickens's other Christmas writings, a lasting and significant influence upon our ideas about the season as a time for celebration, charity and memory.
The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War.
Customer Reviews
Unlocking of a heart
A story of redemption, set on Christmas Eve in London in Victorian England. Dickens's dramatic unlocking in one night of the miser Ebenezer Scrooge's heart - through ghostly encounters, journeys into his past and future, and exposure to both the highs and lows of humankind - makes this a true Christmas miracle