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 A Christmas Carol and Other Stories
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. ‘Whether the Christmas visions would or would not convert Scrooge, they convert us,’ wrote G. K. Chesterton. ‘The story sings from end to end like a happy man going home.’
The Modern Library edition also presents two more of Dickens’s popular Christmas stories, The Chimes and The Haunted Man, Dickens’s last Christmas tale, which features one of his greatest comic families, the Tetterbys. With an introduction by John Irving.
Charles Dickens was born in a little house in Landport, Portsea, England, on February 7, 1812. The second of eight children, he grew up in a family frequently beset by financial insecurity. When the family fortunes improved, Charles went back to… More about Charles Dickens
About Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens was born in a little house in Landport, Portsea, England, on February 7, 1812. The second of eight children, he grew up in a family frequently beset by financial insecurity. When the family fortunes improved, Charles went back to… More about Charles Dickens
