by Charles Dickens · Penguin Classics · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140430684
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«The Christmas Books, Volume 1» is the collection of two Christmas stories by Charles Dickens published by Penguin Classics in paperback (272 pages, in English).
The volume brings together two Christmas tales. In «A Christmas Carol», the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge receives a visit on Christmas Eve from three ghosts who show him his past, present and future. «The Chimes» is a satire set on New Year's Eve that denounces injustice and indifference towards the poor in Victorian England.
First volume of the Christmas Books; this Penguin Classics edition includes an introduction and notes by Michael Slater.
English edition, suitable for readers of Victorian classics and Christmas stories.
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.
