num_pages: 266
description: What would Christmas be without A Christmas Carol? Charles Dickens’s famous ghost story is as much a part of the season as plum pudding and mistletoe, and Michael Patrick Hearn, the celebrated annotator of The Wizard of Oz and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, has prepared this sumptuous, thoroughly annotated edition, which has already become the definitive edition of our century. Initially published by Norton in 2004, this is the first edition to combine the original story with Dickens’s Public Reading text, published to coincide with his 1867-68 American tour, which has not been reprinted in nearly a century. Included are rare photographs as well as the original Leech wood engravings and hand-colored etchings, supplemented by other contemporary illustrations by George Cruikshank, Gustave Doré, John Tenniel, and “Phiz.” The Annotated Christmas Carol will be a literary feast for the whole family for generations.
language: English
title: The Annotated Christmas Carol
titlecomplete: The Annotated Christmas Carol
characters: Tiny Tim, Jacob Marley, Ghost of Christmas Present, Ghost of Christmas Past, Bob Cratchit, Ebenezer Scrooge, Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come, Fred (A Christmas Carol)
genres: Audiobook, 19th Century, Historical Fiction, Holiday, School, Literature, Fantasy, Classics, Fiction, Christmas
ratings_count: 792468
places: England, London, England, United Kingdom
awards: awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Audie Award
category: Classic
publisher: W. W. Norton & Company