A Christmas Carol and Other Stories (Modern Library Classics) - Softcover

Dickens, Charles

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0375758887 ISBN 13: 9780375758881

Publisher: Modern Library, 2001

Synopsis

An immediate bestseller when it was first published in December 1843, A Christmas Carol has endured ever since as a perennial Yuletide favorite. Charles Dickens's beloved tale about the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge, who comes to know the meaning of kindness, charity, and goodwill through a haunting Christmas Eve encounter with four ghosts, is a heartwarming celebration of the spirit of Christmas.

This Modern Library Paperback Classics edition also includes two other popular Christmas stories by Dickens: The Chimes,in which a man, persuaded by hypocritical cant that the poor deserve their misery, is shown what his pessimistic resignation might lead to in a vision conjured by the pealing of bells, and The Haunted Man, Dickens's last Christmas tale, which features one of his great comic families, the Tetterbys.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

"A Christmas Carol] seems to be a national benefit, and to every man or woman who reads it a personal kindness."
--William Makepeace Thackeray

About the Author:

John Irving is the author of numerous novels, including The Cider House Rules, The World According to Garp, A Prayer for Owen Meany, and The Fourth Hand. He lives in Vermont and Toronto.

About this edition

• Publisher: Modern Library
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0375758887
• ISBN 13: 9780375758881
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 368