Dickens's tale of a miserable miser who transforms into a kind and caring benefactor after three ghosts pay him a visit on Christmas Eve is one of the best-loved works in the English language and a true celebration of the Yuletide spirit. This special pocket edition features eight black-and-white illustrations, as well as an elegant bonded-leather binding, distinctive gilt edging, and decorative endpapers. It's perfect for Christmas, and any other, season.

Want to take "A Christmas Carol" on the go? This compact edition of Dickens' classic tale is almost exactly like the original, along with its original illustrations, but designed to be small enough to fit in your pocket, bag, or purse. If you're looking for a classic tale to read while on a plane or in a car, this popular Christmas story and edition is what you want. The illustrations are in black and white rather than in full color, like the original (full color edition: ISBN: 9781936830886), but otherwise, the book is just as Dickens first wrote it.

This Top Five Classics illustrated edition of Dickens’s immortal classic, A Christmas Carol, features: • All of the original full-color and b&w illustrations by John Leech • 20 additional woodcut engravings by Sol Eytinge Jr. from the 1869 American edition by Ticknor & Fields • A helpful introduction, author bio, and bibliography Ebenezer Scrooge, a miserly old curmudgeon who spurns Christmas as a “humbug,” is given the chance to redeem himself through the intervention of four Spirits on Christmas Eve. If reading Dickens’s most beloved story doesn't put you in the true spirit of Christmas, you may be beyond redemption. As Scrooge’s nephew Fred said, “I have always thought of Christmas time…as a good time: a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time: the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow-passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys.” Or as Tiny Tim put it more succinctly, “God bless us every one!”

AChristmas Carol is one of the best loved and most quoted of all English language Christmas stories. First published in 1843, it never fails to make an appearance every Christmas in some form. Ebenezer Scrooge, a most disagreeable curmudgeon, is visited by the ghost of his partner Jacob Marley. Marley informs him that he is to receive three visitors this Christmas Eve. They are the spirits of Christmas Past, Present, and Future. By the next morning the change in Scrooge is astonishing, he has become a kind, generous, caring and thoughtful person. Dickens' flair for characters has left us with two who have gone past the story and entered into the English speaking culture - Scrooge and Tiny Tim.

This volume collects Dickens's three most renowned "Christmas Books", including The Chimes, a New Year's tale and The Cricket on the Hearth, whose eponymous insect chirps amid happiness.

This Workman Family Classic edition contains: * Background/Introduction * Biography * Footnotes * a scriptural passage and discussion question after each day's reading* Extension activitiesShare the Dickens Christmas Classic with your FamilyThis edition of A Christmas Carol is perfect for families to read together, and has been specially formatted into 24 readings suitable for reading during December. experience one of the greatest Christmas stories of all time all over again!