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A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens

A Christmas Carol By Charles Dickens

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

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Summary

Emerging from Dickens's preoccupation in the early 1840s with issues of poverty, ignorance, and cruelty, this classic story of Ebeneezer Scrooge, visited by four ghosts on Christmas Eve, was first published in 1843 to strong reviews and popular success. The Broadview edition uses the first edition with original drawings by John Leech.

A Christmas Carol Summary

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

Emerging from Dickens's preoccupation in the early 1840s with issues of poverty, ignorance, and cruelty, this classic story of Ebeneezer Scrooge, visited by four ghosts on Christmas Eve, was first published in 1843 to strong reviews and popular success. The Broadview edition uses the first edition with original drawings by John Leech.

This edition also includes Washington Irving's descriptions of English Christmas customs; essays by Dickens on Christmas, and his essay A Walk in a Workhouse; a British government report on the lives of child labourers; a speech by Dickens on the importance of educating the poor; selected letters; contemporary reviews; and a listing of film, television, and radio adaptations of the book.

About Charles Dickens

Richard Kelly is a Professor of English at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He is the editor of the Broadview edition of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (2000).

Table of Contents

Introduction
Charles Dickens: A Brief Chronology
A Note on the Text

A Christmas Carol

Appendix A: Reflections on Christmas

  1. Washington Irving, from The Sketch Book (1822)
  2. Charles Dickens, A Christmas Dinner (1836)
  3. Charles Dickens, from The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club (1836-37)
  4. Thomas K. Hervey, from The Book of Christmas (1837)
  5. John Calcott Horsley / Sir Henry Cole, The First Christmas Card (1843)
  6. Charles Dickens, A Christmas Tree (1850)
  7. Charles Dickens, What Christmas Is, As We Grow Older (1851)

Appendix B: Child Labor, Education, and the Workhouse

  1. From Report of the Children's Employment Commission (1842)
  2. From Charles Dickens's Speech at the First Annual Soiree of the Athenaeum: Manchester (Oct. 5, 1843)
  3. Charles Dickens, A Walk in a Workhouse (1850)

Appendix C: From Letters of Charles Dickens

Appendix D: Contemporary Reviews of A Christmas Carol

  1. Charles Mackay, Morning Chronicle (December 19, 1843)
  2. Anon., Athenaeum (December 23, 1843)
  3. Thomas Hood, Hood's Magazine, (January 4, 1844)
  4. Laman Blanchard, Ainsworth's Magazine (January 1844)
  5. Anon., The Times (January 7, 1844)
  6. William Makepeace Thackeray, Fraser's Magazine, (February 1844)

Appendix E: Notable Film, Television, and Radio Adaptations of A Christmas Carol

Works Cited and Recommended Reading

Additional information

GOR005750062
9781551114767
1551114763
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens
Broadview Editions
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Broadview Press Ltd
20030312
239
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Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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