A Christmas carol
Subtitle: a ghost story of Christmas
By: by Charles Dickens ; with the original illustrations by John Leech
Contributors: Leech, John, 1817-1864, illustrator
Publisher: Wisehouse Classics
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Sweden
Language: eng
Number of pages: 62
ISBN-13: 9789176370513
Subjects: Fiction; Poor families; Sick children; Misers; Familles pauvres; Romans, nouvelles; Avares
Description: A CHRISTMAS CAROL is a novella by Charles Dickens, first published in London on December 1843. The novella met with instant success and critical acclaim. A Christmas Carol tells the story of a bitter old miser named Ebenezer Scrooge and his transformation into a gentler, kindlier man after visitations by the ghost of his former business partner Jacob Marley and the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come. The book was written at a time when the British were examining and exploring Christmas traditions from the past as well as new customs such as Christmas cards and Christmas trees. C.
Table of contents: title: Intro; title: Half-Title Page; title: Title Page; title: Copyright; title: Table of Contents; title: THE PREFACE; title: STAVE ONE: MARLEY'S GHOST; title: STAVE TWO: THE FIRST OF THE THREE SPIRITS; title: STAVE THREE: THE SECOND OF THE THREE SPIRITS; title: STAVE FOUR: THE LAST OF THE SPIRITS; title: STAVE FIVE: THE END OF IT