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A Christmas Carol: The Classic Christmas Ghost Story with the Original John Leech Illustrations
Hardcover
HorrorClassic FictionGeneral Fiction
ISBN13: 9781515437383
Publisher: Illustrated Books
Published: Apr 3 2018
Pages: 68
Weight: 0.58
Height: 0.25 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol is the definitive Christmas ghost story, presented here with the classic illustrations by John Leech from the original 1843 edition. Ebenezer Scrooge is rich, cold, solitary, and contemptuous of Christmas until the ghost of his dead partner, Jacob Marley, appears with a warning. Before the night is over, Scrooge is visited by the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Christmas Present, and Christmas Yet to Come, each forcing him to confront the life he has lived, the suffering he has ignored, and the lonely end toward which he is heading. Project Gutenberg's text identifies the original work as A Christmas Carol in Prose; Being a Ghost Story of Christmas by Charles Dickens, with Illustrations by John Leech, and dates Dickens's preface to December 1843.
First published in 1843, A Christmas Carol remains one of the most beloved works in English literature and one of the central books of the Christmas season. Its power comes from the combination of supernatural terror, moral reckoning, social conscience, humour, sentiment, and redemption. This illustrated edition preserves the story's classic Victorian atmosphere through Leech's original images, giving modern readers not only Dickens's complete text but the visual tradition associated with its first appearance. For readers of Christmas fiction, Victorian literature, ghost stories, illustrated classics, family reading, and Dickens, A Christmas Carol remains essential holiday reading: brief, dramatic, memorable, and still capable of making generosity feel urgent rather than ornamental. Project Gutenberg also distinguishes its Leech edition from later illustrated editions, noting the 1843 Original Illustrations in Color by John Leech.
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