num_pages: 239
description: Emerging from Dickens’s preoccupation in the early 1840s with issues of poverty, ignorance, and cruelty, this classic story of Ebeneezer Scrooge, visited by four ghosts on Christmas Eve, was first published in 1843 to strong reviews and popular success. The Broadview edition uses the first edition with original drawings by John Leech. This edition also includes Washington Irving’s descriptions of English Christmas customs; essays by Dickens on Christmas, and his essay “A Walk in a Workhouse”; a British government report on the lives of child labourers; a speech by Dickens on the importance of educating the poor; selected letters; contemporary reviews; and a listing of film, television, and radio adaptations of the book.
language: English
title: A Christmas Carol
titlecomplete: A Christmas Carol
characters: Ghost of Christmas Past, Bob Cratchit, Ghost of Christmas Present, Tiny Tim, Jacob Marley, Fred (A Christmas Carol), Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come, Ebenezer Scrooge
genres: Audiobook, Literature, Classics, School, Christmas, 19th Century, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Holiday, Fantasy
ratings_count: 792574
places: London, England, England, United Kingdom
awards: awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Audie Award
category: Classic
publisher: Broadview Press