A Christmas Carol
By: Charles Dickens.
Edition: Green Edition
Series: Dover Thrift Editions
Publisher: Dover Publications
Published: 1991
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 68
ISBN-13: 9780486268651
Subjects: Scrooge, Ebenezer (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.; Poor families -- Fiction.; Sick children -- Fiction.; Misers -- Fiction.; London (England) -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: In October 1843, Charles Dickens—heavily in debt and obligated to his publisher—began work on a book to help supplement his family’s meager income. That volume, *A Christmas Carol*, has long since become one of the most beloved stories in the English language. As much a part of the holiday season as holly, mistletoe, and evergreen wreaths, this perennial favorite continues to delight new readers and rekindle thoughts of charity and goodwill. 

With its characters exhibiting many qualities—as well as failures—often ascribed to Dickens himself, the imaginative and entertaining tale relates Ebenezer Scrooge’s eerie encounters with a series of spectral visitors. Journeying with them through Christmases past, present, and future, he is ultimately transformed from an arrogant, obstinate, and insensitive miser to a generous, warm-hearted, and caring human being. Written by one of England’s greatest and most popular novelists, *A Christmas Carol* has come to epitomize the true meaning of Christmas. 

Unabridged and unaltered Dover (1991) republication of the text of the first edition (1843, Chapman and Hall, London).
Table of contents: title: Note
pagenum: v; title: Contents
pagenum: vii; title: Preface
pagenum: ix; label: Stave I
title: Marley's Ghost
pagenum: 1; label: Stave II
title: The First of the Three Spirits
pagenum: 16; label: Stave III
title: The Second of the Three Spirits
pagenum: 31; label: Stave IV
title: The Last of the Spirits
pagenum: 50; label: Stave V
title: The End of It
pagenum: 63