PENGUIN CLASSICS : A CHRISTMAS CAROL PB B FORMAT – CHARLES DICKENS-MICHAEL SLATER

Every idiot who goes about with Merry Christmas on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding Dickens s story of solitary miser Ebenezer Scrooge, who is taught the true meaning of Christmas by a series of ghostly visitors, has had an enduring influence on the way we think about the season. Dickens s other Christmas writings collected here include The Story of the Goblins who Stole a Sexton ; The Haunted Man ; and shorter pieces, some drawn from the Christmas Stories that Dickens wrote annually for his weekly journals. In all of them Dickens celebrates Christmas as a time of geniality, charity and remembrance. Edited with an introduction by MICHAEL SLATER