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Walker Books LtdPublication date
2nd October 2006ISBN
9781844280377Children's Author 'Like-for-Like' recommendations
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A Christmas Carol
Charles Dickens
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Originally published well over 150 years ago this classic from Charles Dickens remains as important in the world of children’s literature as ever. It has captured the hearts and minds of children everywhere over generations and this marvellous new edition complete with some glorious illustrations by P J Lynch brings London and its habitants to life with breathtaking immediacy. This edition comes complete with four stunning free art prints.
Synopsis
A Christmas Carol by Charles DickensDickens's ghostly tale of Ebenezer Scrooge has become as much a part of Christmas as trees and stockings, plum pudding and mistletoe. Containing atmospheric artwork, this edition aims to bring Dickensian London and its inhabitants to life.
About The Author
Charles Dickens was born in Landport, Hampshire, during the new industrial age, which gave birth to theories of Karl Marx. Dickens's father was a clerk in the navy pay office. He was well paid but often ended in financial troubles. In 1814 Dickens moved to London, and then to Chatham, where he received some education. The schoolmaster William Giles gave special attention to Dickens, who made rapid progress. In 1824, at the age of 12, Dickens was sent to work for some months at a blacking factory, Hungerford Market, London, while his father John was in Marshalsea debtor's prison.
"My father and mother were quite satisfied," Dickens later recalled bitterly. "They could hardly have been more so, if I had been twenty years of age, distinguished at a grammar-school, and going to Cambridge."
Later this period found its way to the novel Little Dorrit (1855-57). John Dickens paid his £40 debt with the money he inherited from his mother; she died at the age of seventy-nine when he was still in prison.
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