Ebook {Epub PDF} A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

Reviewed in India on August 4, A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens!!! Its a Classic fiction Story which revolves around a person named Ebenezer Scrooge, The man only gives respect to money but no one else!!!/5(K). A CHRISTMAS CAROL. IN PROSE BEING A Ghost Story of Christmas. by Charles Dickens. PREFACE. I HAVE endeavoured in this Ghostly little book, to raise the Ghost of an Idea, which shall not put my readers out of humour with themselves, with each other, with the season, or with me. May it haunt their houses pleasantly, and no one wish to lay it. A Christmas Carol. A mean-spirited, miserly old man named Ebenezer Scrooge sits in his counting-house on a frigid Christmas Eve. His clerk, Bob Cratchit, shivers in the anteroom because Scrooge refuses to spend money on heating coals for a fire. Scrooge's nephew, Fred, pays his uncle a visit and invites him to his annual Christmas www.doorway.ru by:

A Christmas Carol is a novella by English author Charles Dickens. It was first published by Chapman Hall on 19 December Carol tells the story of a bitter old miser named Ebenezer Scrooge and his transformation resulting from a supernatural visit by the ghost of his former business partner Jacob Marley and the Ghosts of Christmases Past, Present and Yet to Come. A CHRISTMAS CAROL. IN PROSE BEING A Ghost Story of Christmas. by Charles Dickens. PREFACE. I HAVE endeavoured in this Ghostly little book, to raise the Ghost of an Idea, which shall not put my readers out of humour with themselves, with each other, with the season, or with me. May it haunt their houses pleasantly, and no one wish to lay it. A Christmas Carol was self-published. Because his previous book didn't sell well, Dickens couldn't find a publisher for A Christmas Carol. So he paid for the printing himself. The first edition— priced at 5 shillings (about $30)— went on sale Decem and was sold out by Christmas. Two more editions were printed before the end.

A Christmas Carol, probably the most popular piece of fiction that Charles Dickens ever wrote, was published in The publisher was Chapman Hall (although Dickens paid the publishing costs) and the illustrator was John Leech. A Christmas Carol was first published on Decem, with the first edition sold out by Christmas Eve. By , the novella had gone through 13 printings and continues to be a robust seller more than years later. Did you know Dickens didn't make very much money from early editions of A Christmas Carol. Though it was a runaway best seller, Dickens was very fastidious about the endpapers and how the book was bound, and the price of materials took a big chunk out of his potential. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, commonly known as A Christmas Carol, is a novella by Charles Dickens, first published in London by Chapman Hall in and illustrated by John Leech. A Christmas Carol recounts the story of Ebenezer Scrooge, an elderly miser who is visited by the ghost of his former business partner Jacob Marley and the spirits of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come.