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A collection of stories of matchless charm and enduring popularity that enchanted listeners at Charles Dickens's public readings
Since it was first published in 1843 A Christmas Carol has had an enduring influence on the way we think about the traditions of Christmas. Dickens's story of solitary miser Ebenezer Scrooge, who is taught the true meaning of Christmas by the three ghosts of Christmas past, present and future, has been adapted into countless film and stage versions since it was first published. Dickens's other Christmas writings collected here include 'The Story of the Goblins who Stole a Sexton', the short story from The Pickwick Papers on which A Christmas Carol was based; The Haunted Man, a tale of a man tormented by painful memories; along with shorter pieces, some drawn from the 'Christmas Stories' that Dickens wrote annually for his weekly journals. In all of them Dickens celebrates the season as one of geniality, charity and remembrance. This new selection contains an introduction by distinguished Dickens scholar Michael Slater discussing how the author has shaped ideas about the Christmas spirit, original illustrations by 'Phiz' and John Leech, an appendix on Dickens's use of The Arabian Nights, a further reading list and explanatory notes.
For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
- Sales Rank: #134722 in Books
- Published on: 2003-09-30
- Released on: 2003-09-30
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 7.75" h x .77" w x 5.09" l, .56 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 336 pages
About the Author
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.
Michael Slater is Emeritus Professor at Birkbeck College, London & a past President of the Dickens Fellowship & the Dickens Society of America.
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Stories That Will Warm Cold Winter Nights
By R. DelParto
CHARLES DICKENS A CHRISTMAS CAROL AND OTHER CHRISTMAS WRITINGS is a wonderful collection of Christmas renderings previously published in various Charles Dickens collections. Always the holiday favorite during the Christmas season, old Ebenezer Scrooge and his cast of spirits set the stage for A CHRISTMAS CAROL, which is the highlight of the book. However, the other stories included in this volume are a delight to read and show blueprints to the CAROL as well as after thoughts, such as 'The Story of the Goblins who Stole a Sexton' and THE HAUNTED MAN AND THE GHOST'S BARGAIN.
Beyond the holly and the ivy, Charles Dickens' writings show readers his references to societal issues in nineteenth century England that revolve around Christmas. Dickens explores issues, which relate to class and memory in order to achieve deeper meaning and human qualities for the characters he creates. In an era where industry and consumption began to overtake the true meaning of Christmas, Dickens uses his craft to show readers to compassion still exists during hard times. The latter stories in the book exemplify his intentions, "A Christmas Tree", "What Christmas Is, As We Grow Older", and "The Seven Poor Travellers."
Dickens charming stories have a timeless quality that have been revered through time regardless of what century or season they have been read. For those already familiar with the Carol, the other stories will offer more insight to Dickens' writings. Overall, this is a great collection that may be read like campfire stories on a cold winter's night, or simply cozily by the fireplace.
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Christmas Carol
By Elizabeth Hargrove
To be honest this is the first time I have actually read Christmas Carol. I loved it. The short stories are fun to read also. Will reread each Christmas season. Dickens is wonderful to read. Love how he builds on his characters.
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A Christmas miscellany from England’s literary Father Christmas
By Paul Haspel
A Christmas without Charles Dickens and “A Christmas Carol” seems unthinkable, and therefore it’s appropriate that this Penguin Books edition of “A Christmas Carol” is introduced with the famous anecdote of a child in London responding to the news of Dickens’s 1870 passing by crying out, “Dickens dead? Then will Father Christmas die too?” The great British novelist’s influence on how people around the world think about the Christmas holiday has been that comprehensive, and remains just as strong today as it was when “A Christmas Carol” was first published in 1842.
As Michael Slater of the University of London points out in a perceptive foreword, Dickens associated his writings about Christmas with the importance of memory, including the remembrance of loss; additionally, Dickens achieved the neat trick of linking the holiday with Christian ideals of charity while avoiding any overt expressions of religious ideology that could be mistaken for sectarianism. That recipe for tempered holiday cheer has been charming readers for over 170 years now.
What makes this edition of “A Christmas Carol” a particularly good present for any thoughtful reader, and God bless us every one, is the way in which this edition situates “A Christmas Carol” within the larger context of Dickens’s writings about Christmas generally. The presence of these other writings reminds one that “A Christmas Carol” was neither the first nor the last time that Charles Dickens wrote about the Christmas holiday.
This Christmas collection proceeds chronologically, and begins with a brief 1835 newspaper sketch titled “Christmas Festivities.” The sketch is relatively general in nature, but looks ahead to “A Christmas Carol” in Dickens’s assertion that “That man must be a misanthrope indeed in whose breast something like a jovial feeling is not roused – in whose mind some pleasant associations are not awakened – by the recurrence of Christmas” (p. 1) – a descriptor that could remind many readers of one Ebenezer Scrooge. The story that follows, “The Story of the Goblins Who Stole a Sexton,” is one that you may already have if you are a Dickens fan who owns a copy of Dickens’s first novel, “The Pickwick Papers” (1837), in which the story appears as Chapter 28. In its depiction of a mean-spirited sexton named Gabriel Grub (good Dickensian name, that) whose abduction by goblins late one Christmas Eve results in dramatic changes to his life and character, one sees a foreshadowing of the basic plotline of “A Christmas Carol.” This first of Dickens’s ghost stories of Christmas is followed by what is described as “A Christmas Episode from Master Humphrey’s Clock,” the 1840-41 periodical for which Dickens was author and sole contributor. This concise episode looks ahead to “A Christmas Carol” in the way it depicts its narrator observing a lone diner in a tavern at Christmas, befriending him, and helping him to move forward from the paralysis of grief with which “His mind was wandering among old Christmas Days” (p. 22).
And then there is “A Christmas Carol” itself. I have read it a number of times before, but a number of facets of the story stood out to me this time. First is the story’s brevity – 85 pages, in this edition. No wonder some of the “stand-alone” printings of “A Christmas Carol” have had to resort to expedients such as large type fonts and wide margins in order to extend the story to something seeming more like modern book length. The story’s brevity has no doubt also contributed to the manner in which generations of filmmakers have been drawn to it; the Internet Movie Database lists over 200 “Christmas Carol” movies and TV episodes, including versions that feature the Muppets, Mr. Magoo, Mickey Mouse, the Smurfs, Barbie, the Flintstones, Dora the Explorer, Bugs Bunny, and the Jetsons, not to mention episodes of “The Love Boat,” “Family Ties,” and “The Six Million Dollar Man.” Indeed, it’s amazing that “A Christmas Carol” has survived all that so-often-uninspired adaptation.
It survives because it’s a great story, one that draws its characters quickly and economically. On my first reading of “A Christmas Carol,” many years ago, I was not over-optimistic at the story’s beginning, particularly when the narrator requires the whole first paragraph to inform the reader that Jacob Marley is dead, and the entire second paragraph to expatiate on the possible reasons for the existence of the phrase “dead as a doornail.” But from that point forward, the story moves forward like Yuletide gangbusters.
I found Scrooge to be more human and more believable than the cartoonish caricature of many of the adaptations. One mistake that many of the movies make is to depict Scrooge, in the evening before his hauntings begin, as making his dinner from gruel. In fact, however, Scrooge has already taken “his melancholy dinner in his usual melancholy tavern” (p. 41), and is eating the gruel only because he “had a cold in his head” (p. 43). How many busy businesspeople today, here in this Christmas season of 2013-14, took a melancholy dinner in a melancholy tavern tonight – Applebee’s, maybe, or Ruby Tuesday – and followed it up with their own favorite head-cold remedy, purchased perhaps at CVS or Walgreens? Perhaps there is more of Scrooge in all of us than many of us would care to admit.
Dickens scholar Slater’s notes for the story are also helpful. I learned, for example, that when Dickens uses the phrase “the wisdom of our ancestors” early in the story, he is poking fun at Tory phraseology and policies of his time. Similarly, in the famous scene when the Ghost of Christmas Present opens his green robe to reveal two hideous children, a boy named Ignorance and a girl named Want, Dickens is looking squarely at England’s endless delays in establishing a system for public education. At the same time, in looking at all these subtle features of the story, I do not want to neglect Bob Cratchit, Tiny Tim, the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come – all those features that have helped “A Christmas Carol” to live for generations of readers. It is a great story, pure and simple.
The subsequent Christmas stories and tales in this volume show that Dickens continued to return to the Christmas holiday as a subject, if not always with the same degree of success that he achieved in “A Christmas Carol.” The novella “The Haunted Man and the Ghost’s Bargain” (1848) engages an interesting philosophical concept – that it is our memories of sorrow and loss that make us capable of compassion – but it is neither as concise nor as successful as “A Christmas Carol.” There is much that is interesting in the story’s account of the chemist Redlaw, who willingly accepts a phantom’s offer to relieve him of his sad memories, only to find that he has lost all that is good in his humanity, and that his malady of emotional death spreads to everyone he encounters – but it’s slow-paced and generally grim, like much of “Dombey and Son” (1848), the novel that Dickens was working on at the same time.
“A Christmas Tree” (1850) is a delightful essay in which Dickens evokes powerfully the way in which the ordinary toys and decorations of Christmastime can be strongly evocative of multiple layers of memory. “What Christmas Is, as We Grow Older” (1851) is a somewhat somber examination of how the meaning of the Christmas holiday changes, in some ways, and remains consistent in others, as people we love go before us and leave us to observe Christmas without them. And “The Seven Poor Travellers” (1854) provides a striking look at a Christmastime visit to a hostel in Dickens’s hometown of Rochester in Kent; founded by the bequest of a 16th-century nobleman, the hostel provides one night’s lodging to six poor travelers. Dickens makes himself a seventh of these poor travelers, and arranges a Christmas evening’s entertainment for them.
“A Christmas Carol” is the centerpiece of these Dickensian Christmas tales, as it should be; but this very fine volume shows where “A Christmas Carol” came from, and where it fits within Charles Dickens’s literary treatments of the holiday that would forever after be identified with him. Writing this review on the eighth day of Christmas ("eight maids-a-milking"), I encourage you to make this edition of "A Christmas Carol" a part of your future holiday celebrations.
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