Christmas Carol (Csa Word Classic) [Hardcover]

Charles Dickens (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 25, 2007 | Series: Csa Word Classic

An ideal product for the Christmas gift market, the attractive and eye-catching design is a real selling point for this publication of Charles Dickens' classic Xmas tale. A miser through and through, Ebenezer Scrooge hoards away all of his money, at the same time not allowing himself or those around him any happiness. The story focuses on Scrooge's apparitions over one particular Victorian winter evening, when he is visited by a few spirits who set out to teach him a thing or two about the real meaning of the festive season. Praise for "A Christmas Carol":"...a national benefit, and to every man and woman who reads it a personal kindness. - William Thackeray. "I feel so good and would do anything, yes and shall do anything, to make it a little better for people. I want to go out and comfort someone ...I shall give money." - Robert Louis Stephenson.

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About the Author

Darwin Reid Payne directed and designed the set for the Southern Illinois University production based on this script.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 216 pages
• Publisher: Csa Word Ltd (October 25, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1906147140
• ISBN-13: 978-1906147143

More About the Author

One of the grand masters of Victorian literature, Charles Dickens was born on February 7, 1812, in Landport, Portsea, England. He died in Kent on June 9, 1870. The second of eight children of a family continually plagued by debt, the young Dickens came to know not only hunger and privation,but also the horror of the infamous debtors' prison and the evils of child labor. A turn of fortune in the shape of a legacy brought release from the nightmare of prison and "slave" factories and afforded Dickens the opportunity of two years' formal schooling at Wellington House Academy. He worked as an attorney's clerk and newspaper reporter until his Sketches by Boz (1836) and The Pickwick Papers (1837) brought him the amazing and instant success that was to be his for the remainder of his life. In later years, the pressure of serial writing, editorial duties, lectures, and social commitments led to his separation from Catherine Hogarth after twenty-three years of marriage. It also hastened his death at the age of fifty-eight, when he was characteristically engaged in a multitude of work.