by Charles Dickens · William Collins · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780007350865
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«A Christmas Carol» is Charles Dickens's short Christmas novel, published by William Collins in paperback (144 pages, in English).
The miser Ebenezer Scrooge despises Christmas and sees no reason to celebrate it. On Christmas Eve, he receives a visit from the ghost of his partner Jacob Marley and from the spirits of Christmases past, present and future, who show him his life, his mistakes and the suffering of others. A story of redemption that is also a critique of Victorian society and a defence of generosity.
This edition was published on 1 April 2010 as part of the Collins Classics collection.
Suitable for readers aged 8 to 10 and for the general public; also used as school reading in the British curriculum (Key Stage 3 and GCSE).
Charles John Huffam Dickens was an English writer and journalist. He created some of literature's best-known fictional characters, and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime and, by the 20th century, critics and scholars had recognised him as a literary genius. His novels and short stories are widely read today.
