Charles Dickens: A Christmas Carol

Cover: 9781108057141 | A Christmas Carol | Being a Ghost Story of Christmas | Charles Dickens

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Beschreibung

Charles Dickens (1812-70) was an established novelist when he decided to produce a Christmas story, which was written in only six weeks and published at the end of 1843. The book was an immediate bestseller, and had it not been for the very high production costs of the specially commissioned illustrations and the decorative binding, it would have been a great commercial success. This strategic error meant that Dickens did not make the profits he expected, which contributed to his falling out with the publishers, Chapman and Hall. The story, however, has endured to this day as a classic and remains Dickens' best-known and most adapted work. This reissue of the first edition, with its famous illustrations by Punch caricaturist John Leech (1817-64), is printed in black and white, but the four colour illustrations found in the original can be viewed at [...]

Über den Autor

Charles Dickens (1812-1870) was an English novelist, journalist, editor, performer, and one of the most famous writers of the Victorian age. Born in Portsmouth and shaped by early experiences of debt, factory labour, and social insecurity, Dickens brought extraordinary narrative energy to the lives of children, clerks, criminals, debtors, lawyers, labourers, eccentrics, families, and the urban poor. His major novels include Oliver Twist, Nicholas Nickleby, A Christmas Carol, David Copperfield, Bleak House, Hard Times, Little Dorrit, A Tale of Two Cities, Great Expectations, and Our Mutual Friend.Dickens's fiction combines comedy, melodrama, social criticism, grotesque characterisation, sentiment, satire, and deep concern for the moral condition of modern society. A Christmas Carol is among his most enduring works because it compresses many of his central concerns into a short and unforgettable form: poverty, greed, memory, childhood, social duty, spiritual terror, and the possibility of repentance. The figures of Ebenezer Scrooge, Jacob Marley, Tiny Tim, and the three Christmas spirits have become part of the shared language of Christmas, making Dickens not merely a Victorian novelist but one of the authors most responsible for the modern literary imagination of the holiday.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Stave I. Marley's ghost; Stave II. The first of the three spirits; Stave III. The second of the three spirits; Stave IV. The last of the spirits; Stave V. The end of it.

Details

Empfohlen (bis):	12
Empfohlen (von):	9
Erscheinungsjahr:	2012
Genre:	Importe , Lyrik & Dramatik
Rubrik:	Belletristik
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9781108057141
ISBN-10:	1108057144
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Dickens, Charles
Hersteller:	Cambridge University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	216 x 140 x 11 mm
Von/Mit:	Charles Dickens
Erscheinungsdatum:	03.01.2013
Gewicht:	0,242 kg