
A Christmas Carol - The Penguin English Library (Paperback)
Charles Dickens (author)Published: 29/11/2012

Dickens practically invented the popular conception of Christmas with this evergreen novella about personal transformation and the grotesqueries of greed. Through Ebenezer Scrooge’s moral journey, A Christmas Carol provides a feel-good festive tale of eternal popularity.
The Penguin English Library Edition of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
"Every idiot who goes around with 'Merry Christmas' on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding"
Charles Dickens's tale of Ebenezer Scrooge, who is haunted by three spirits and learns the true meaning of Christmas has had, along with Dickens's other Christmas writings, a lasting and significant influence upon our ideas about the season as a time for celebration, charity and memory.
The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War.
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
ISBN: 9780141389479
Number of pages: 112
Weight: 89 g
Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 6 mm
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