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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.
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The final volume in the Everyman's Library Charles Dickens
collection: the timeless story of everyone's favorite misanthrope,
Ebenezer Scrooge, together with four more of Dickens's Christmas
tales and with Arthur Rackham's classic illustrations. No holiday
season is complete without the story of tightfisted Mr. Scrooge, of
his long-suffering and mild-mannered clerk, Bob Cratchit, of Bob's
kindhearted lame son, Tiny Tim, and of the Ghosts of Christmas
Past, Present, and Future. First published in 1843, "A Christmas
Carol "was republished in 1852 in a new edition with four other
Christmas stories--"The Chimes, The Cricket on the Hearth, The
Battle of Life, " and "The Haunted Man." These beloved tales
revived the notion of the Christmas "spirit"--and have kept it
alive ever since.