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Walker Books LtdPublication date
7th September 2009ISBN
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A Christmas Carol, Illustrated Edition
Charles Dickens
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“Bah!” “Humbug!” Ebenezer Scrooge hates Christmas and he does his best to stop others enjoying it either. But then he gets a visit from three ghostly visitors – the ghosts of Christmases Past, Present and Yet to Come. The three ghosts reveal some truths to the mean old Scrooge which make him change his mind forever. P.J. Lynch’s atmospheric illustrations capture the dark and cold world of Scrooge’s meanness and juxtapose them with the jollity that is traditionally associated with Christmas.
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A Christmas Carol, Illustrated Edition by Charles DickensFirst published in 1843, this lavish, unabridged new edition resonates with the true spirit of Christmas. It is superbly illustrated by P. J. Lynch whose detailed, atmospheric artwork brings Dickensian London vividly alive.
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Full of exquisite detail, unusual viewpoints and the vivacity of 1840s London. Bookfest Recommended Reading GuideAbout The Author
Charles Dickens was born in Landport, Hampshire, during the new industrial age, which gave birth to theories of Karl Marx. Dickens's father was a clerk in the navy pay office. He was well paid but often ended in financial troubles. In 1814 Dickens moved to London, and then to Chatham, where he received some education. The schoolmaster William Giles gave special attention to Dickens, who made rapid progress. In 1824, at the age of 12, Dickens was sent to work for some months at a blacking factory, Hungerford Market, London, while his father John was in Marshalsea debtor's prison.
"My father and mother were quite satisfied," Dickens later recalled bitterly. "They could hardly have been more so, if I had been twenty years of age, distinguished at a grammar-school, and going to Cambridge."
Later this period found its way to the novel Little Dorrit (1855-57). John Dickens paid his £40 debt with the money he inherited from his mother; she died at the age of seventy-nine when he was still in prison.
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