Christmas Stories (Dickens Collection) [Paperback]

Charles Dickens (Author), Ruth Glancy (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 15, 1996 | Series: Dickens Collection

Charles Dickens (1812-70) published his Christmas Stories in the weekly period- ical Household Words,which was incorporated into All The Year Round in 1859, and which Dickens continued to edit until his death.

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Written between 1850 and 1867, the Christmas Stories appeared annually in the Christmas issues of weekly journals. Many are sketches and essays full of autobiographical interest as he recalls childhood stories and scenes, excursions in Europe, a haunted house, and the den of a misanthropic hermit. All the stories Dickens wrote in collaboration with Wilkie Collins are included in full in this edition, presenting these adventure tales in complete form for the first time. This is the first ever annotated edition of these Christmas Stories.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 352 pages
• Publisher: Orion Publishing Group, Ltd. (November 15, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0460877127
• ISBN-13: 978-0460877121
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.1 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,929,298 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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.

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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Christmas Stories, December 16, 2009

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Judy (Napa, CA) - See all my reviews

This printing by General Books is unreadable. Apparently it's scanned from another printing without any proofreading. There are random symbols, missing words, misspelled words and large missing parts of the stories that were supposed to be in this book.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Simply delightful!, January 10, 2008

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Nina M. Osier (Randolph, ME USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Christmas Stories (The Boston Globe Family Classics Series, 10) (Hardcover)

I picked this up just after Christmas because I wanted to re-read "A Christmas Carol." The two additional stories, "The Chimes" and "The Cricket on the Hearth," were new to me although I've read nearly all of the Dickens novels. Delightful! The usual Dickens themes - how human love and goodness can triumph over the evils of poverty, indifference, and avarice - abound. The characters are memorable and colorful, exaggerated yet poignantly familiar. What a great way to wind up the holiday season.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great find!, November 19, 2010

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Travis Greer (Colorado Springs, CO USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Twenty-One Christmas Stories by Charles Dickens (Twenty-One Classic Christmas Stories in One Volume) (Kindle Edition)

The previous reviewer was talking about a poorly printed paper version, NOT this e-book...

This Kindle-version looks and works great on my Kindle. Nice formatting and table of contents works great. I love the Kindle!

I am a new Charles Dickens convert. I enjoy him much more than I thought. This collection of Christmas stories helped get me into the holiday spirit. A great look back into Victorian England. It was a simpler time. Beautiful writing...

I had no idea that Dickens wrote so many Christmas stories in addition to his well-known, A Christmas Carol. These 21 Christmas stories are great reads!