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Christmas Carol

The story of a miser’s transformation, and the most beloved Christmas novel of all time.

An immediate bestseller in the mid-nineteenth century and praised by the Illustrated London News for its “playful and sparkling humor [and] gentle spirit of humanity,” Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol has remained continuously in print for more than one hundred years, a cherished part of the holiday season for millions of readers.

The novel follows Ebenezer Scrooge, a rich man who has no patience for the merriment of the holidays and prefers counting his money to counting his blessings . . . until a series of spectral visitors awaken the Christmas spirit in his heart. Both a spine-tingling ghost story and a historical portrait of poverty and greed in Victorian England,  A Christmas Carol is a delightful classic for readers young and old.

Charles Dickens

An international celebrity during his lifetime, Charles Dickens (1812­–1870) is widely regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His classic works include A Christmas Carol, Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, Great Expectations, and A Tale of Two Cities, one of the bestselling novels of all time. When Dickens was twelve years old, his father was sent to debtors’ prison, and the boy was forced to work in a boot-blacking factory to support his family. The experience greatly shaped both his fiction and his tireless advocacy for children’s rights and social reform.

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