A Christmas Carol

Puffin Classics: the definitive collection of timeless stories, for every child.

I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.

Ebenezer Scrooge is a mean, miserable, bitter old man with no friends. One cold Christmas Eve, three ghosts take him on a scary journey to show him the error of his nasty ways. By visiting his past, present and future, Scrooge learns to love Christmas and the people all around him.

A Christmas Carol has become a a true holiday classic, and is a powerful and uplifting story of redemption for all ages.

'The resonance of A Christmas Carol seems to get stronger every year' - The Guardian

ISBN-13: 9780141324524

Media Type: Paperback

Publisher: Puffin Books

Publication Date: 09-11-2008

Pages: 160

Product Dimensions: 6.90h x 5.10w x 0.50d

Series: Puffin Classics

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.