Christmas books
By: by Charles Dickens ; with sixty-five illustrations by Landseer Maclise, Leech, Tenniel, Stanfield, & c. and an introduction by Eleanor Farjeon.
Series: Oxford Illustrated Dickens
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1989
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 398
Description: Five tales written for Christmas, 1843 to 1848, combining realism and fantasy. "A Christmas Carol in Prose" makes its ghostly appeal to Scrooge, the hard old miser, and "The Chimes" is a variation of the same motive. "The Cricket on the Hearth" is an idyll of home life, "The Battle of Life", an imaginative deliverance on resignation, "The Haunted Man", a fairy tale with the beauty of kindness for its moral. For other editions, see Author Catalog.
Notes: Reprint. Originally published: 1952.
Table of contents: title: A Christmas carol; title: The chimes; title: The cricket on the hearth; title: The battle of life; title: The haunted man.