A Christmas with Dickens

A Christmas with Dickens
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Total Pages : 40
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ISBN-10 : OSU:32435053952198
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Rating : 4/5 (98 Downloads)

Synopsis A Christmas with Dickens by : Charles Dickens

Christmas Books

Christmas Books
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Total Pages : 316
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ISBN-10 : HARVARD:32044051057891
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Rating : 4/5 (91 Downloads)

Synopsis Christmas Books by : Charles Dickens

A Christmas Carol

A Christmas Carol
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Publisher : Everyman's Library
Total Pages : 162
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ISBN-10 : 9780679436393
ISBN-13 : 0679436391
Rating : 4/5 (93 Downloads)

Synopsis A Christmas Carol by : Charles Dickens

A gorgeous hardcover edition of the timeless holiday classic, featuring stunning full-color illustrations by Arthur Rackham, with a gilt-stamped cloth cover, acid-free paper, sewn bindings, and a silk ribbon marker. No holiday season is complete without Charles Dickens's dramatic and heartwarming story of the transformation of miserly Ebenezer Scrooge through the efforts of the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future. Set on a cold Christmas Eve in Victorian London, and featuring Scrooge's long-suffering and mild-mannered clerk, Bob Cratchit; Bob’s kindhearted son, Tiny Tim; and a host of colorful characters, A Christmas Carol was an instant hit and has been beloved ever since by generations of readers of all ages.

Mr. Dickens and His Carol

Mr. Dickens and His Carol
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Publisher : Flatiron Books
Total Pages : 285
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ISBN-10 : 9781250154033
ISBN-13 : 1250154030
Rating : 4/5 (33 Downloads)

Synopsis Mr. Dickens and His Carol by : Samantha Silva

"CHARMING...I READ IT IN A COUPLE OF EBULLIENT, CHRISTMASSY GULPS." —Anthony Doerr, #1 New York Times bestselling author of All The Light We Cannot See "GRACED BY THE GHOSTLY PRESENCE OF MR. DICKENS HIMSELF...PROMISES TO PUT YOU IN THE HOLIDAY SPIRIT." —USA Today A beloved, irresistible novel that reimagines the story behind Charles Dickens' Christmas classic Charles Dickens is not feeling the Christmas spirit. His newest book is an utter flop, the critics have turned against him, relatives near and far hound him for money. While his wife plans a lavish holiday party for their ever-expanding family and circle of friends, Dickens has visions of the poor house. But when his publishers try to blackmail him into writing a Christmas book to save them all from financial ruin, he refuses. And a serious bout of writer’s block sets in. Frazzled and filled with self-doubt, Dickens seeks solace in his great palace of thinking, the city of London itself. On one of his long night walks, in a once-beloved square, he meets the mysterious Eleanor Lovejoy, who might be just the muse he needs. As Dickens’ deadlines close in, Eleanor propels him on a Scrooge-like journey that tests everything he believes about generosity, friendship, ambition, and love. The story he writes will change Christmas forever.

Dickens and Christmas

Dickens and Christmas
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Publisher : Pen and Sword
Total Pages : 266
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ISBN-10 : 9781526712288
ISBN-13 : 1526712288
Rating : 4/5 (88 Downloads)

Synopsis Dickens and Christmas by : Lucinda Hawksley

A direct descendant of Charles Dickens delves into the many merry ways in which the author of A Christmas Carol celebrated & influenced the holiday. Dickens and Christmas is an exploration of the 19th-century phenomenon that became the Christmas we know and love today—and of the writer who changed, forever, the ways in which it is celebrated. Charles Dickens was born in an age of great social change. He survived childhood poverty to become the most adored and influential man of his time. Throughout his life, he campaigned tirelessly for better social conditions, including by his most famous work, A Christmas Carol. He wrote this novella specifically “to strike a sledgehammer blow on behalf of the poor man’s child,” and it began the Victorian’s obsession with Christmas. This new book, written by one of his direct descendants, explores not only Dickens’s most famous work, but also his all-too-often overlooked other Christmas novellas. It takes the readers through the seasonal short stories he wrote, for both adults and children, includes much-loved festive excerpts from his novels, uses contemporary newspaper clippings, and looks at Christmas writings by Dickens’s contemporaries. To give an even more personal insight, readers can discover how the Dickens family itself celebrated Christmas, through the eyes of Dickens’s unfinished autobiography, family letters, and his children’s memoirs. Dickens and Christmas also explores the ways in which his works have gone on to influence how the festive season is celebrated around the globe. “Brilliant . . . a very readable book, a slice of social history involving a man who, more than anyone, encapsulates Christmas in literature.”—Books Monthly

Inventing Scrooge

Inventing Scrooge
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Publisher : Cider Mill Press
Total Pages : 256
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ISBN-10 : 9781604337792
ISBN-13 : 1604337796
Rating : 4/5 (92 Downloads)

Synopsis Inventing Scrooge by : Carlo DeVito

Inventing Scrooge uncovers the real-life inspirations from Charles Dickens' own world that led to the fascinating creation of his most beloved tale: A Christmas Carol. When Charles Dickens created the story that would become A Christmas Carol, little did he know that his ghostly little book would reinvent the way we celebrate Christmas. From a graveyard in Edinburgh to the Marshalsea Prison in London to his schoolboy years in Chatham and even his lifelong fascination with dance, so much of Dickens' past and present are woven into the characters and themes of A Christmas Carol. And by understanding the story behind the story, readers will come to embrace the holiday classic all the more. To this day, we look to the Christmas season as a time of warmth and celebration among family, friends, and strangers alike. And every year at Christmastime, not only do our lives get better for all the festivity, but we get better, as people. Just like Ebenezer Scrooge.

A Christmas Carol in Prose

A Christmas Carol in Prose
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 352
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ISBN-10 : BSB:BSB11715043
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Rating : 4/5 (43 Downloads)

Synopsis A Christmas Carol in Prose by : Charles Dickens

Christmas Stories

Christmas Stories
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 154
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ISBN-10 : HARVARD:HN3IKK
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Rating : 4/5 (KK Downloads)

Synopsis Christmas Stories by : Charles Dickens