A Christmas Carol: In Prose; Being a Ghost Story of Christmas
Sep 2026 · Aeneas Press
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Complete and unabridged, with 45 full-page plates by John Atkinson Grimshaw, John Everett Millais and William Powell Frith. Scrooge is visited by his dead partner and then by three spirits, and has one night to see what his life has cost the people in it. Dickens wrote it in six weeks in the autumn of 1843, walking London after dark, and published it at his own expense when his sales were falling. It sold out by Christmas Eve and largely invented the season as the English-speaking world now keeps it — a strange fate for a ghost story about a man alone. Forty-five plates of Victorian London by night and winter light, from Grimshaw's moonlit streets to Rowlandson's crowded shops, follow the story through the dark the author himself walked.
Complete and unabridged, with 45 full-page plates by John Atkinson Grimshaw, John Everett Millais and William Powell Frith. Scrooge is visited by his dead partner and then by three spirits, and has one night to see what his life has cost the people in it. Dickens wrote it in six weeks in the autu...
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Charles Dickens (1812-1870) was an English novelist born in Portsmouth. Sent to work in a blacking factory at twelve when his father was imprisoned for debt, he became the most widely read author of his century. His works include Oliver Twist, Bleak House, Great Expectations, and, with Wilkie Collins, The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices.
Charles Dickens (1812-1870) was an English novelist born in Portsmouth. Sent to work in a blacking factory at twelve when his father was imprisoned for debt, he became the most widely read author of his century. His works include Oliver Twist, Bleak House, Great Expectations, and, with Wilkie Col...
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